John Leguizamo will get PTSD when fascinated by his position in Concerning Henry.
The 65-year-old actor performed a comfort retailer robber in Mike Nichols’ 1991 basic film however admitted he regrets taking up the position, which noticed his character shoot Harrison Ford’s lawyer alter-ego, leaving him with reminiscence issues and mobility points.
Talking on the Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast, John mentioned: “You realize, I used to be sort of humiliated by it. I did it as a result of I received no jobs. There have been no jobs for Latin people. There simply weren’t.
I am not going to lie. It was like white physician, white lawyer, white husband, white lover, Latino drug vendor.”
John added that “there have been no alternatives,” saying that Hollywood “was like Jim Crow” on the time, referring to the state and native legal guidelines launched within the Southern United States within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that enforced racial segregation.
John added that he was determined to impress casting administrators however was instructed they weren’t keen to see him.
He mentioned: “They only wish to see nice reveals, however they only weren’t casting us. Once I received Concerning Henry, it was a drug vendor. I shoot this white man. It was like, I am perpetuating what they wish to see, which is damaging Latino photos … like a ghetto hoodrat. I had been working towards that. All my performing lecturers, once I was 17, they have been like, ‘Nobody can perceive you with that accent. Do you actually converse that means?’
“However there I’m with my sloppy fro and I am within the drugstore, I imply within the bodega, and there is Harrison Ford and I am robbing the place. Even speaking about it simply provides me PTSD.”
Nevertheless, John auditioned for Concerning Henry as a result of he “actually wished to fulfill Mike Nichols as a result of he is one of many greats.”
