John Leguizamo: Watching ‘White Guy’ Al Pacino Play a Puerto Rican on ‘Carlito’s Way’ Set Was ‘Odd’ and ‘Surreal’
For John Leguizamo, 1993 was a breakthrough year thanks to back-to-back releases “Super Mario Bros.” and “Carlito’s Way.” In the latter Brian De Palma-directed film, t…
Leguizamo sounds totally reasonable to me. “I know he’s trying and he’s a great actor, so brilliant, he was my hero. But it was odd, man,” Leguizamo continued about the “Carlito’s Way” set. “It’s an odd experience to be a Latin man in a Latin story written by a Latin man and the lead guy’s a white guy pretending to be Puerto Rican. I’m not going to lie, it’s surreal. It was surreal. I turned the part down a few times and then eventually I decided to do it.” -JL
He played an Italian plumber that same year.
I mean, you're an actor for fucksake. Your entire existence is to be something else.
He’s just mad Pacino plays a more convincing Latino than him… also waiting for the inevitable reveal that he’s actually not Latin either similar to Elizabeth Warren
Not cultural appropriation again..... All culture is appropriated, all of it.