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“They don’t venture beyond their circles of acquaintances. “Hollywood is a very insular community,” Esparza said. “It says that they think we don’t have the talent to play ourselves,” he said. It’s this history that makes what the filmmaker calls “brown face” - the practice of non-Latinos playing Latinos - so very troubling. “And they were generally evil characters.”
“They made a whole series of movies where white people played Mexicans,” Esparza recalled. After all, for much of the 20th century, Latinos were depicted on film as either Latin lovers or border bandits. But the activist sees things like boneheaded casting decisions in the context of what has been Hollywood’s ugly history with Latinos. The artist appreciates, as he told me, “the potential of what human beings are capable of doing” in playing someone of a different race or ethnicity. Now the CEO of Maya Cinemas, a theater chain that caters to Latinos in the United States, Esparza casts himself in both roles. Up to that point, I would imagine, he was seen - unfairly - by the Hollywood establishment as less of an artist and more of an activist. His upcoming films include “Without Men” with Eva Longoria and Christian Slater.Īnd yet, Esparza said on a panel that we were both on recently that he didn’t start getting the respect of his peers until he started making films about non-Latinos. For his labor, the filmmaker has received dozens of awards. Moctesuma Esparza has produced more than 20 films, many of them with Latino subject matter. This is good news, especially to someone who has a strong institutional memory of what Hollywood used to be like for Latinos and an unvarnished perspective on what it’s like now. Kusturica will soon meet with both men, and pick his Pancho. Now that Depp has stepped away from the project, his possible replacements include two Latinos: Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal and Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. … I still feel very strongly about that.” He said that the project was “up in the air” and that he was facing a “dilemma” because, as he put it: “I feel like it should be played by a Mexican,” he told the assembled media. At a news conference promoting his new film, “Rango,” Depp was asked about the possibility that he might play Villa. But, if you want to know the real reason, just listen to what the actor said a couple of weeks earlier. The explanation, for public consumption, is that Depp had too many other commitments. The exit was probably a bit sticky, given the late notice and the fact that he and Kusturica are said to be friends. There’s only one problem: There is no leading man.
The film - “Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Seven Fingers” - will co-star Salma Hayek, and it is set to begin production later this year. The latest insult was the casting of Depp to play Francisco “Pancho” Villa, the iconic Mexican revolutionary, in an upcoming film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu