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Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno, And More Latine Celebrities Who Talked Openly About Being Typecast And Fighting Stereotypes In Hollywood
“I didn’t want to be a drug dealer or a murderer for the rest of my life. That’s not me, that’s not my people.”
Oscar-nominated actor Salma Hayek, who is of Spanish and Lebanese descent, told GQ last February that she spent years “typecast” in Hollywood and wasn’t able to branch out into comedy roles as a result. The Martian actor Michael Peña, who is Mexican and American, once admitted that the first 14 years of his acting career were a huge struggle due to constantly being stereotyped when it came to casting. Back in 2020, J.Lo — who is Puerto Rican — told Variety, “When I started, I would always go in for what they would call 'the maid,' 'the Rosie Perez-type role,' 'the dishwasher.’ I was like, ‘I don't want to do that,' and I had to kind of break out of that and convince somebody to put me in the first romantic comedy, which was The Wedding Planner.”
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