non latin cast
Only Anthony Quinn ( who gives an excellent performance)is mexican in this cast. And not much has changed in casting whites as latinos.
shareSalvador Baguez is from Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Do you honestly feel not much has changed as far as Latino casting nowadays? Personally, I think the filmmakers would be raked over the coals if they tried to make such a film now with so many non-Latinos cast. Casting Caucasian actors now in ethnic roles seems distinctly frowned upon to me.
shareI agree. For example, Ben Affleck has received quite a bit of criticism for casting himself as Tony Mendez in Argo because Mendez is part Mexican-American and Affleck obviously isn't.
shareDo you honestly feel not much has changed as far as Latino casting nowadays? Personally, I think the filmmakers would be raked over the coals if they tried to make such a film now with so many non-Latinos cast. Casting Caucasian actors now in ethnic roles seems distinctly frowned upon to me.To an extent, but they still play around with ethnicities. They'll cast Latinos to play as Arabs ("hey they're all brown people so what's the difference amirite"), they'll cast Arabs to play as Persians, they'll cast Japanese to play as Chinese and Chinese to play as Japanese ("hey all Asians are the same amirite?"), and so on. It's better than it was in the 1950s where white guys would play as people of all ethnicities (hell, freaking John Wayne played as Genghis Khan for God's sake; they'd never get away with that now), but they've still got a ways to go in the area of ethnic insensitivity.
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