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1. remezcla.com › film › john-leguizamo-says-playingJohn Leguizamo Says Playing Italian Characters in the Past ...

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   Apr 14, 2023 · Leguizamo played the character Luigi in the live-action Super Mario Bros. in 1993. That criticism has led some people to remind Leguizamo that Mario and Luigi, the main characters of the video...

2. english.elpais.com › culture › 2023/04/13John Leguizamo: ‘Playing an Italian was my revenge. If they ...

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   Apr 13, 2023 · For decades – long before it was fashionable – the veteran Colombian actor was demanding that Latinos receive more visibility on screen. Now, as he receives EL PAÍS in his residence, he emphasizes...

3. www.gq.com › the-peoples-history-of-john-leguizamoThe People's History of John Leguizamo - GQ

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   Feb 28, 2018 · In his 2011 one-man show, Ghetto Klown, Leguizamo says Fox asked him to start fresh with a new cast after mere weeks on the air, and Leguizamo, committed to keeping his majority Latino cast of ...

4. slate.com › culture › 2019John Leguizamo talks about his career and his play Latin ...

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   Jul 9, 2019 · But alongside this life on-screen, Leguizamo has also built a singularly successful theater career, based on a form he helped pioneer—the funny, autobiographical one-man play. He started in...

5. www.npr.org › 2019/12/15 › 788195270John Leguizamo On 'Latin History For Morons' - NPR

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   Dec 15, 2019 · NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with John Leguizamo about the evolution of his one-man show after performing it for six years. Its national tour has just wrapped up.

6. www.sportskeeda.com › pop-culture › what-johnWhat is John Leguizamo's ethnicity? 'Encanto' star calls out ...

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   Jan 28, 2022 · The Hispanic actor, who called himself a "Puerto Rican-Colombian homeboy from Queens" in his 2006 autobiography, explained that he has benefited from being a light-skinned Latino. John Leguizamo...

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   Why did John Leguizamo want to play an Italian?

   • John Leguizamo: ‘Playing an Italian was my revenge. If they’re going to steal roles from me, I’m going to steal them too’ For decades – long before it was fashionable – the veteran Colombian actor was demanding that Latinos receive more visibility on screen.

   John Leguizamo: ‘Playing an Italian was my revenge. If they’re going to

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   Is John Leguizamo Latino?

   • His character is Latino: sometimes he speaks Spanish with his daughter and sings along to reggaeton in his car. But in The Power, Leguizamo isn’t reduced to his Latin identity, unlike in many other productions he’s been a part of. A portrait of actor and activist John Leguizamo, one of Hollywood’s busiest people.

   John Leguizamo: ‘Playing an Italian was my revenge. If they’re going to

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   Why does Leguizamo think he has found the answer?

   • That's because Leguizamo thinks he's found the answer, the root of the problem, and it's one that he's been railing against his whole life: Latin history has been kept from the American consciousness. And he's going to bring it back. It's been two and a half decades since he was Miggy, quaking with rage at the slur he'd been assaulted with.

   The People's History of John Leguizamo - GQ

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   Does Leguizamo teach history?

   • But like all of Leguizamo’s plays, Latin History is funny and jam-packed with impersonations. But he’s not kidding about the history teaching part. He writes on the chalkboard, asks questions of the audience, and whips out books. He even created a reading list.

   The Craft of John Leguizamo’s Lasting Impressions - Slate Magazine

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   Why is Leguizamo a Spanglish?

   • Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, but his parents immigrated to New York when he was very young. This perhaps explains the Spanglish that he uses during this interview. He grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, surrounded by friends (“almost all Black and Latino,” he recalls) who had trouble pronouncing his last name.

   John Leguizamo: ‘Playing an Italian was my revenge. If they’re going to

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   Was Leguizamo a Spanglish man on the inside?

   • "For our Spanglish generation, Leguizamo was our Man on the Inside," wrote Lin-Manuel Miranda in Vanity Fair. "We cheered for him as 'Benny Blanco from the Bronx' in Carlito’s Way. We watched him hold his own against Leo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge!

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8. sharpmagazine.com › 2020/11/03 › john-leguizamoJohn Leguizamo on His Directorial Debut, Hollywood ...

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   Nov 3, 2020 · It’s a problem Leguizamo seems keen on addressing, especially as it pertains to Latino (or, as he prefers to call them, using the gender neutral pronoun, “Latinx”) populations. “It’s this psychosocial erasure that Latino people have to live with, for the last 500 years we’ve been here,” he explains. “It’s relentless, and it’s in every form.