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re: John Leguizamo Slams James Franco’s Casting as Fidel Castro: ‘He Ain’t Latino!”

Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:54 am to
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:54 am to
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John Leguizamo


Posted by LSUMJ
BR
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 10:54 am to
Weird that isnt a complaint they bring up about Hamilton
Posted by Peazey
Metry
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 11:35 am to
Pretty sure Fidel Castro wasn't Latino either and both James Franco's father and Fidel Castro's father were from the same region of Europe in the Iberian Peninsula.
Posted by Modern
Fiddy Men
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 2:11 pm to
If James Franco is Castro, then I guess Seth Rogen will be Che’?

That would be a good spoof comedy.
Posted by JakeFromStateFarm
*wears khakis
Member since Jun 2012
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 2:28 pm to
It’s called “acting” John. The whole fricking point is to pretend to be something you’re not, dumbass.
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 3:45 pm to
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All shite aside, who thought that Franco would make a good Castro


He's too short but the scraggly beard is on point
Posted by Junkyard Super Dawg
Member since Oct 2021
364 posts
Posted on 8/7/22 at 5:34 pm to
Jewish dudes be like: "All your roles belong to us"
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 6:30 pm to
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Fidel Castro wasn't even Cuban. His dad came from the Iberian peninsula (Spain/Portugal) while his mom was born in the Canary Islands (a Spanish possession located just off the coast of Africa).


Several people googled it and posted this same thing already. Me, I had no idea and wouldn’t have ever considered Franco. But hell it could work.
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 6:41 pm to
in other Hollywood news, members of the demon clown community are still unhappy with the shameless appropriation of their native customs and dress in Spawn



Sic semper Bozo
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 8:25 pm to
Besides his European roots Fidel looked more like a white hispanic



than Zimmerman

Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:56 pm to
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The bigger story is that they’ll probably paint Fidel as some hero when in fact, he was a murderer who destroyed the future of his own people.

Thank you. Yes. And they’ll probably manage to make Che’ a martyred revolutionary lion.
Frick Castro and Guevara. Murdering communists only different from Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot in the numbers murdered.
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
27194 posts
Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:12 am to
The bigger concern is whether they portray a murderous, evil piece of dog-shite in an even remotely good light.
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
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Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:13 am to
You beat me to it.
Upvote.
Posted by oogabooga68
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Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:13 am to
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Wokeness is mental retardation.


FIxed....
Posted by jbraua
Oklahoma City, OK
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:16 am to
Man, I could have sworn Fidel Castro was Latino.
Posted by AggieHank86
Texas
Member since Sep 2013
42941 posts
Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:27 am to
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John Leguizamo Slams James Franco’s Casting as Fidel Castro: ‘He Ain’t Latino!”
Interesting objection, given that Castro himself was of pure Iberian stock. His father was an immigrant to Cuba from the Galicia region of Spain, and his mother was from the Canary Islands (where most of the population is entirely Iberian).

Franco is 1/4 Iberian himself (Portuguese), along with Swedish and Russian Jewish.

Leguizamo is from Colombia and has significant Native ancestry, along with some Iberian stock.

So, genetically, Franco is probably about as close to Castro as is Leguizamo.
This post was edited on 8/9/22 at 11:40 am
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30401 posts
Posted on 8/9/22 at 11:40 am to
Will there be this kind of controversy when a movie about Castro Carazo is made? He was LSU's band director when Uncle Huey was King. Cazazo was Costa-Rican born, and graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Barcelona.



He wrote Huey Long's campaign song Every Man a King, and several of LSU’s songs, most notably “Touchdown for LSU,” (still a major component along with “Tiger Rag” in the LSU Tiger Marching Band’s famed pregame show in Tiger Stadium), “The LSU Cadets March” and “Darling of LSU.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_Carazo

https://louisianamusichalloffame.org/huey-p-long-castro-carazo/

Who gets to play Carazo? He looks whiter than Huey. Looks like a Baptist preacher.
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