John Leguizamo On The Lack Of Latino Roles In Hollywood And His American Dream | Nightly News Films

1. …this moron should put his money where his mouth is and start a fund to teach latinos acting then….blaming others won't help, this guy has always been awful and he's getting worse…and WOKE

2. He's not the thinker Wilford Brimley was.

3. 👏👏 speak our truth and represent 👏👏
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   But also, we need to address representation in academia. How can UCLA be in a Latin dominated community and not have a Latin dominated demographic. They probably have even fewer Latin professors. 🙄

4. Oh, is this John Leguizamo, the guy who made up a story that he's half Puerto Rican instead of what he is, a full Colombian? What a BS artist. John, don't set up yourself as a defender of "latinos" when you have made a career of ridiculing "Latinos" with your ofensive stereotypes.

5. Never forgetting that he call latino Roaches

6. John is an awesome being. He loves his Latino/Hispanic people so much. Much respect! I'm a Mexican American and I'm proud that he reps us all BROWN people. Leguizamo for President!!

7. 2021 will be China Dreams 🇨🇳 🤣
   Next we all speak chinese

8. John leguizamo is so cute and gorgeous. Wow

9. When you speak of Latin people, make sure to be very clear about it. There are black Latinos or afro Latinos who often are not included in the conversation. Im so happy he referred to the movie highlighting black latino success because black Latinos have been and continue to be discriminated against in every latin country. So when a conversation about latino inclusion comes, we must be very clear about it.

10. Not one mention of God this is why God is judging every single one of you especially Godless Hollywood how is it I can sit during these last four or five months and every single movie I watch and I watch a lot of them has the derogative term of God-Dm it. In the first 15 minutes of every single movie which tells me all the conspiracy theories don't mean anything until you realize how Godless Hollywood is and this is why God is going to annihilate everything that is evil from this Earth as of this day.

11. I agree but the only thing I don’t agree with is shouldn’t the job go to the best and most qualified individual not color of skin I keep hearing people say we need to hire a woman for this position or a type of ethnic background for this position why doesn’t the position go to the most qualified person no matter what their skin color is.. if everybody did interviews and I had to stand behind a wall so the person that’s doing the hiring doesn’t get to see your skin color goes by your credentials your achievements not you skin color

12. Im Mexican. If i made John he told me a bunch of Hispanic native american history.

    I b all like, thats cool. Can i get a Sid line.🤗

13. Totally spoiled people complaing they are not spoiled enough. Like female actors complaing they only made 10 million for a few months work and the males made 15 millions.

14. I just watched Nothing Like the Holidays, his Christmas movie from 2008, it was so good.

15. He means he isn't getting roles. Their are tons of Latinos in shows . Maybe he doesn't have a Netflix account..

16. JOHN. I SAW MYSELF IN OTHERS. NOT COLOR. NOT UPBRINGING.. BUT. THE SAME WTF MAN FACTOR.

17. DOESNT MATTER. BUT COLUMBIA? ALWAYS TOLD PUERTO RICAN
    EVEN IN ROMEO AND JULIET DAYS.

18. Maybe if more numbers of Latino people were registered citizens you would have more people in professional fields

19. I’ve been waiting for a conversation like this forever 👍🏽

20. star trek didn't want us latinos in space lol.

21. Thank you! I wasn't aware of all this information.

22. You know where there is NO lack of "Latino roles"? In Latin America! When Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, etc etc etc. complain about lack of roles, they blatantly ignore the fact that Latin America, Asia, and Africa all have major film industries. Yet no one in Chinese or Korean cinema is complaining about the lack of roles for black actors there. No one in Mexico is complaining about how few roles there are for Asian actors in telenovelas. Only in America must everyone be disproportionally represented or else it's some sort of racist conspiracy. It's ludicrous.

23. Great interview, John Leguizamo is an excellent talented comedian, actor… I don't use or like the word minority referring to African Americans and other ethnic races we are not a less than people. I think "Hollywouldn't" didn't want to do this true story because they were Black Latinos it might not have happened if they were white Latinos too. I'm African American so I feel you and you're funny too.

24. Latino = a person from Latium (Rome, Italy). in other words well represented in Hollywood by the likes of Coppola, Pacino, DeNiro, Buscemi, DiCaprio, etc

25. John Leguizamo can't complain about lack of roles, that guy's been in like a million movies at this point.

26. Loved him since the 80s.

27. Think lower the kids see it too

28. Boards should represent the consumer and the reporters for better control on both sides

29. History from all cultures should be mandatory. We represent the melting pot

30. JOHN LEGUIZAMO ,
    YOU'RE FANTASTIC ACTOR !!!

31. Man! I remember John. Wow! Great actor!

32. ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

33. Much love to all the raza struggling right now. Keep your head ups and your maks on.

34. Bravo! I certainly enjoyed this interview. I too am from another country, Jamaica with Chinese mix, also grew up in the Bronx during the 70s, we were the first mixed ethnic group in an Italian neighborhood. Thanks for sharing John Leguizamo, I share your growing up pains. I've been in the US since I was 2yrs old and as of this very day at 57, I am still unable to fathom the US way of thinking and treatment toward people from different cultures.

35. That’s true but what about Asians roles. They only roles they get are sushi rolls.

36. And this is why el chapo was hated because how you going to be least than your white supremacists 🙄 free el chapo

37. John Leguizamo is a beautiful human.

38. America is the greatest human experiment 😂🤣, what? Is impossible to the this guy seriously

39. What a bunch of propaganda. Unsubscribing. #Latinosfortrump #Lexit #Blexit #blackvoicesfortrump

40. He told everyone this is an experiment and yet no one is questioning it.🤭

41. We love Chi-Chi! 🥰✌

42. Hey John, one thing is for sure,
    We love you. FYI, back in the late 1990’s I gave Jackie Chan an idea about using Hispanics such as Elisabeth Pena in his movies, well guess what, two years later, she appeared in Rush Hour 1. Then in Rush Hour 2, Roselyn Sanchez was cast. You should try and team up on projects. Just ask Paul Rodriguez or Jennifer Lopez, I had suggested they work with Jackie Chan and here we are still in the same boat, 23 years later. Jackie did answer my fax, so go ahead and give him a shout out, it can’t hurt.

43. …Its lucky for Trump that the election was rigged otherwise he would have ended up without any votes at all…

44. My American dream is to see the land of my forefathers before America happened.

45. All I can hear are cartoon characters with John

46. 👤

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