The actor says he was told they couldn’t have ‘two Latin people in the movie.’
In the first episode of the series, Leguizamo discusses having to chart his own path in Hollywood.
That path, he reveals, was littered with racism, colorism, and sometimes just plain ignorance.
John Leguizamo.Noam Galai/WireImage
“I was in a movie for a week,” he told Baralli.
You know what I mean, right?'"
The Fernandez character played by Leto, according to Leguizamo, had originally been his role.
It certainly was not me.
I wish John only continued success."
Hayek was unavailable for comment.
But, he noted, “there’s colorism in Hollywood, too.”
I definitely would not go in the sun for years."
What happened to all the Afro-Latinos and the majority of indigenous Latinos?
They don’t get a shot.
We gotta speak out and we gotta speak up."
For all his trials and tribulations in Hollywood, Leguizamo found a freer space in theater.
