Antonio Banderas opens up on ethnic stereotyping in Hollywood
Antonio Banderas has spoken candidly about the ethnic stereotyping he faced when he first arrived in Hollywood, recalling being told bluntly that his
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Antonio Banderas opens up on ethnic stereotyping in Hollywood
Antonio Banderas has spoken candidly about the ethnic stereotyping he faced when he first arrived in Hollywood, recalling being told bluntly that his Hispanic backdrop limited him to villainous roles, and explaining why breaking out of that box image means so much to him.
"They said, you are here, approval the blacks and the Hispanics, to play the bad guys," the Oscar-nominated player told The Times .
"The problem was a few years later I had a mask, hat, sword and cape and the bad guy was Captain Love, who was blond and had blue eyes."
That character part was, of course, Zorro, the gutsy protagonist Banderas played in The Mask of Zorro in 1998 and The Legend of Zorro in 2005.
But it was a cat, not a swordsman, that he considers the most culturally significant step forward.
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