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John Leguizamo Recalls The Messed-Up Reason He Lost A Role To A White Actor

John Leguizamo Recalls The Messed-Up Reason He Lost A Role To A White Actor

“If you look Latino, or if you have a Latino last name, the odds are against you in Hollywood,” John Leguizamo wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Jemal Countess via Getty Images John Leguizamo is speaking out about the discrimination he’s faced throughout his career and continues to experience. In an interview published Wednesday, the American actor and comedian of Colombian-Puerto Rican descent told Insider about an “unspoken Latin quota” in Hollywood — the belief that there can be too many Latino people in a film. Advertisement “This one director wanted me to be in his movie,” Leguizamo told the… Read Full Article