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Why no one is calling Ariana DeBose and Rachel Zegler for their fake accent in the movie?


I saw their interviews - they both speak with perfect American accent since they were born in USA.

They made such a big deal with "casting real latinos, when original had greek and americans". Yet no real latino was cast.

Rachel (Maria) was born in New Jersey. Her mother is of Colombian descent and her father is of Polish descent. I really doubt that Rachel was traveling anywhere outside of USA until promotion and was never in Latin America. Yet claims to be latina, because mommy has some lose connection to Colombia.

Ariana (Anita) was born in North Carolina. Her mother is white, her father is an Afro-Latino Puerto Rican. She was raised by her single white mother. Which means she had no connection to her puerto-rican father.

And I suspect that parents of both women were born in USA too. Yet they claim they are Latinos ))))

Its basically when Hilaria Baldwin pretended to be Latina or Spanish when she knew the language and was often visiting Spain.

Them doing fake accent - is the same as brown face in first movie. Spielberg should have cast real latino people, you know who were actually born in Latin America and have actual accent. Its truly hilarious that no one is calling them on it. At least Camila Cabello was actually born in Cuba and can call herself latina.

Rachel Zegler can easily claim she is Polish (after her father). And Ariana DeBose is more European after her mother. Yet both use latino cards and fake accent....

Yeah and guy who plays Bernardo was born in Canada and faked his accent too. All Latinos are fake in this movie. That Greek guy from original looked more like Latino that any on the new cast

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This is what happens, at times. Frankly, I think that the Left, often enough, is just about as bad as the Right when it comes to s**t like this. As someone who's from a family with a very left-wing background, this irritates the crap out of me no end. This is political and social correctness gone amok. It's sickening.

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I don't give a crap where an actor is from or what his ethnic background is. All that matters is how well he can play the character.

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You've made a good point, liscarkat. Thanks very much.

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The problem is they have gone from looking for actors that look the part and can act to changing parts regardless of the story just to cram in blacks. They don't do this with any other race... but hell they change the Fantastic Four where the two youngest members are supposed to be brother and sister and white into a white girl and black boy. And you see this in all sorts of movies. Especially obvious when they remake a movie and magically black characters pop up to replace the white ones... Never seems to happen with and Asian or Hispanic only blacks.... Oh but then you get the left babbling about it not being a real person they are portraying so race doesn't matter... Which kind of ignores the bullshit Hamilton crap fest where real white characters are suddenly transformed into a different race.

I'm not white or black and find the whole thing to be complete bullshit. If a writer that creates a character decides he is black or white or whatever race then the least a movie producer can do is stick with that most basic characteristic of the character that the writer created.

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