Current Events > John Leguizamo speaks out against the casting of James Franco as Fidel Castro

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ChopinList
08/05/22 5:59:25 PM
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https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1555616963082260485


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Irony
08/05/22 6:00:29 PM
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James Franco is playing as Fidel Castro?

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brotrrwinner
08/05/22 6:00:34 PM
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When will the white men stop hurting other cultures?

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ForsakenHermit
08/05/22 6:00:58 PM
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Liam Neeson would have been perfect about 30 years ago.

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Baha05
08/05/22 6:01:30 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Yea

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Jagr_68
08/05/22 6:02:07 PM
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Thought Franco was cancelled for the sex abuse accusations.

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Eat_More_Beef
08/05/22 6:02:31 PM
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Yeah, kinda messed up. Leguizamo is legit and he should have gotten the role.

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NightRender
08/05/22 6:03:01 PM
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I somehow think John Leguizamo would do a good job playing James Franco playing Fidel Castro.

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Choco
08/05/22 6:04:11 PM
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my grandma says i look like fidel castro and i'm not latino either

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yemmy
08/05/22 6:06:07 PM
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Idk he kinda looks like him

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Kimbos_Egg
08/05/22 6:07:07 PM
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brotrrwinner posted...
When will the white men stop hurting other cultures?

fidel castro is portuguese though.

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noisetank
08/05/22 6:07:18 PM
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justin trudeau should have been cast tbh

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DrizztLink
08/05/22 6:08:35 PM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
fidel castro is portuguese though.
Doubt.

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FLAMING_EVIL_HOMER
08/05/22 6:09:22 PM
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Is it a comedy? Lol


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FortuneCookie
08/05/22 6:09:24 PM
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Latino who played Italian angry over casting...
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Smashingpmkns
08/05/22 6:12:36 PM
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Franco is a pretty horrible actor. And he's also a sex pest.

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Irony
08/05/22 6:12:52 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Franco is a pretty horrible actor. And he's also a sex pest.
So is Fidel Castro

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noisetank
08/05/22 6:14:30 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
And he's also a sex pest.

and john is THE Pest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB8dNMoXZ0

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Lost_All_Senses
08/05/22 6:14:50 PM
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Irony posted...
So is Fidel Castro

So James Franco was method acting this whole time? I knew he was a good dude.

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Baha05
08/05/22 6:15:00 PM
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noisetank posted...
and john is THE Pest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB8dNMoXZ0
Im stinky dinky!

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Jagr_68
08/05/22 6:16:25 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Latino who played Italian angry over casting...

Luigi actually was Puerto Rican though because he's not directly related to Mario, who was Italian. They were both adopted and simply stuck to being orphan brothers for life.

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Lost_All_Senses
08/05/22 6:18:57 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Luigi actually was Puerto Rican though because he's not directly related to Mario, who was Italian. They were both adopted and simply stuck to being orphan brothers for life.

Not to mention it's not the same when one Latin role is being taken and it's s vs. 10000 made exclusively for white casting. Dude sounds ok with getting handed crumbs after all this time.

The big picture matters. It's easy to make everything look small and insignificant when you never zoom out.

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xue1
08/05/22 6:20:37 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi

Created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the younger fraternal twin brother and sidekick of Mario, Nintendo's mascot
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Tyranthraxus
08/05/22 6:22:31 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Luigi actually was Puerto Rican though because he's not directly related to Mario, who was Italian. They were both adopted and simply stuck to being orphan brothers for life.

John isn't Puerto Rican either.

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Jagr_68
08/05/22 6:24:19 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
John isn't Puerto Rican either.

He's latino. That's the point going back to OP.

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Lost_All_Senses
08/05/22 6:24:43 PM
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How dare minorities take over white roles and not just leave entirely because everything fantasy at the time revolved around white characters. Lol. You guys are fighting for everything old to stay whitewashed when the race of someone should be so insignificant in modern times. If it wasn't 95%+ white back then, we wouldn't be in this predicament. Working in one way is progress. Working in the opposite way is pushing back towards more racially suppressive times.

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refmon
08/05/22 6:25:15 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Latino who played Italian angry over casting...


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MrAndersonWb
08/05/22 6:26:47 PM
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leguizamo was a normal actor before, pretty cool too.

as soon as he lost relevance he suddenly got in touch with his Latinx roots and now he wont shut up about it.

Id not mind it if he had been all about the Latinx stuff since the beginning, but no, it only came out once he became irrelevant.

why did he take that role in Mario bros and Romeo + Juliet then? He needs to shut up
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Lost_All_Senses
08/05/22 6:29:46 PM
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MrAndersonWb posted...
leguizamo was a normal actor before, pretty cool too.

as soon as he lost relevance he suddenly got in touch with his Latinx roots and now he wont shut up about it.

Id not mind it if he had been all about the Latinx stuff since the beginning, but no, it only came out once he became irrelevant.

why did he take that role in Mario bros and Romeo + Juliet then? He needs to shut up

It's almost like he would of lost his career and been deemed "hard to work with" by opening up in a time the majority of people didn't care Latins were getting backburnered. And now that he has support it feels more safer to do.

Woooooah. Das craaaazy

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MrAndersonWb
08/05/22 6:30:25 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
It's almost like he would of lost his career by opening up in a time the majority of people didn't care Latins were getting backburnered. And now that he has support it feels more safer to do.

Woooooah. Das craaaazy

no. He doesnt have more support, he is irrelevant now, he has nothing to lose.

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Lost_All_Senses
08/05/22 6:33:13 PM
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MrAndersonWb posted...
no. He doesnt have more support, he is irrelevant now, he has nothing to lose.

Honestly, it could be either reason and more than likely partly both. Im just giving the opposite side.

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MrAndersonWb
08/06/22 12:27:04 AM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Honestly, it could be either reason and more than likely partly both. Im just giving the opposite side.


He is a white Latinx too, he partakes on the privilege. I mean he could play Luigi and an actual Frenchman (moulin rouge) and other white roles, he is having his cake and eating it too
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Lost_All_Senses
08/06/22 12:43:18 AM
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MrAndersonWb posted...
He is a white Latinx too, he partakes on the privilege. I mean he could play Luigi and an actual Frenchman (moulin rouge) and other white roles, he is having his cake and eating it too

Racial advantages no longer cool since it's not only purebred white people that can have them? What a convenient time for them to not work anymore

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JuanCarlos1
08/06/22 12:51:21 AM
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Historic figures shouldnt be white washed or race swapped

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Questionmarktarius
08/06/22 12:56:00 AM
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Irony posted...
James Franco is playing as Fidel Castro?
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Zeeak4444
08/06/22 1:15:14 AM
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MrAndersonWb posted...
no. He doesnt have more support, he is irrelevant now, he has nothing to lose.

hes credited with 161 roles with 22 of those roles being in the last 2 years.

so irrelevant lol. Maybe take some time away from the 146 posts 3 month old account, and do just like 2 minutes of research before saying some dumb shit.

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The_Top_Crusader
08/06/22 1:24:38 AM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Thought Franco was cancelled for the sex abuse accusations.

Yeah I was just surprised hes doing anything.

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sabin017
08/06/22 1:27:04 AM
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tell me you auditioned for the role without telling me you auditioned for the role

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
08/06/22 1:27:35 AM
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JuanCarlos1 posted...
Historic figures shouldnt be white washed or race swapped
This

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Kimbos_Egg
08/06/22 1:29:57 AM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
This

Spanish people aren't white now? News to them i suppose. /s

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baiken2
08/06/22 1:31:19 AM
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A Cuban actor should have gotten role
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Kimbos_Egg
08/06/22 1:33:16 AM
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baiken2 posted...
A Cuban actor should have gotten role

Good thing hes spanish and not cuban then huh

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IShall_Run_Amok
08/06/22 1:35:00 AM
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This is (not) it, Luigi.

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Questionmarktarius
08/06/22 1:39:58 AM
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baiken2 posted...
A Cuban actor should have gotten role
Cesar Romero has been dead for nearly thirty years.
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Gremlynn
08/06/22 1:40:37 AM
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xue1 posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi

Created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the younger fraternal twin brother and sidekick of Mario, Nintendo's mascot

People are talking about the movie though, not the games. In the movie Luigi wasn't even the same generation as Mario, and pretty sure they weren't biological brothers in that movie either.

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baiken2
08/06/22 2:29:15 AM
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Kimbos_Egg posted...
Good thing hes spanish and not cuban then huh
Yeah
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Questionmarktarius
08/06/22 3:01:25 AM
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Gremlynn posted...
People are talking about the movie though, not the games. In the movie Luigi wasn't even the same generation as Mario, and pretty sure they weren't biological brothers in that movie either.
Holding the 1993 Mario movie against anyone is not a good idea, apart from anyone who thought that was a good idea.
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kuwab0
08/06/22 3:46:34 AM
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Seth Rogen will play Che Guevara

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