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