Entertainment: John Leguizamo Calls Out Casting Of James Franco As Fidel Castro: ‘I Don’t Got A Prob With Franco But He Ain’t Latino!’
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- august 06, 2022
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© Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/CP Images, Marion Curtis/StarPix for HBO/Shutterstock John Leguizamo and James Franco The actor was disappointed by the team behind the upcoming Alina Fernández biopic who cast James Franco in the role of her father, Fidel Castro.
He took to Instagram to explain his disagreement with the casting.
"How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well?" he began the post.
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He shared a screenshot of a Deadline article reporting the casting.
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"No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F’d up!" continued Leguizamo. "Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong! I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!"
Franco is of Portuguese and Swedish descent on his father's side, and Russian Jewish descent on his mother's side.
Ana Villafañe will play Fernández in the film, with Mía Maestro cast in the role of Natalia "Naty" Revuelta, her mother whom Castro had an affair with.
Deadline reports the film "follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Fernández, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castro".
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This isn't the first time Leguizamo has been outspoken on the issue of white actors dominating casts of films. In September, he spoke out against the all-white cast of the "Super Mario Bros." movie.
“But too bad they went all white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking color-blind casting in original!” he wrote at the time.
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