Antonio Banderas speaks on being told by Hollywood Execs on what roles to play

I think it’s more like: follow up to his breakout film El Mariachi.

The first 2 are legitimately good movies, and not *just* as a kids movie. The third one is so god awful, poorly written, cliche, cheesy, cringe etc that it loops around to being so bad it’s funny good. But it seriously feels like a middle schooler wrote it.

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I like moments of each film but hate the crude special effects budget (which Rodriguez is hailed for) and the waste of amazing talent that could have done better films (thats imo, I know these have special places in people's hearts). Steve Buscemi, Alba, Carla Gugino, Stallone, and Banderas all deserved more films closer to the quality of Predators, Desperado, and Sin City rather than these films. Edit: Removed Tarantino, no idea why I included him in this post lol

It could have been for any number of reasons. The casting for the movie still is solid, they could have done worse than Crowe for that role. I’m looking forward to seeing Bautista in the villain role.

yeah Henry Cavill is the Highlander

Directed by the filmmakers behind John Wick.

Ana de Armas is Cuban. She moved to Spain at 18 only for a few years, has a very strong Cuban accent... I realize now mentioning Bruhl was a bit of a stretch maybe. I'm using the "European" take on nationality based on culture and uprising, not the American based on heritage and grandparents' place of birth.

Yeah and Alexis is a proud Latina. But we have our own issues in SA due to past colonization and slavery and treatment of the native population - hence why the native or mestizo/mulatto population have long been the majority group that migrates - so Americans think that is all who we are, when the reality is we are incredibly diverse. My country l has a large Arabic descendant population (mostly Lebanon) for example and a large Italian heritage population as well. Sure there are features that are more predominant in heritage from the Iberian Peninsula, especially the southern regions - like darker hair or what people like to call “Mediterranean features”. I live in the U.S. now. I have a pretty unique and uncommon Catalan surname, so most people don’t realize I’m Spanish descent, so when they find out where I’m from, they act shocked lol Or they’ll assume I’m Italian American and it’s like, “You guys don’t really know anything about South America do you?” lol

A long reply because SA politics are a hot mess and have always been. Well, Latino is just an economic region - a term from the French I believe, but could be mistaken. We don’t really use Latino unless discussing Latin America in an economic context. That said, classism and racism do exist in SA. Not to the level I’ve seen personally in the U.S., but it does exist and it is more passive than direct in my experience - unless it’s the native population that keep getting the short end of the stick no matter where you go. That is just very overt. Same way the native Americans were and are still treated. It’s disgraceful how the native population in SA have been marginalized (although some countries are much better in their treatment and acceptance). That said, it’s tough. People from Spain vary wildly, from darker Mediterranean features to lighter features akin to northern Italians. So usually when people from SA speak like the people you mentioned, I roll my eyes because they often don’t realize their own heritage (if you’re from Spain, good chance you are already a little mixed even if you have white skin). It is not as prevalent as in the U.S. due to nationality (in this case your actual country) being most important in SA, so in general, people in SA are more nationalistic than anything else. Of course that has its cons, as depending where the coin flip lands, we’ll either land into far left or far right authoritarianism - sometimes in the span of a couple of decades and then flip again lol Unless it’s asked, it’s rare for people to discuss their heritage or even claim to be say, Italian-Venezuelan for example (which my mom’s side would fall into). We just say Venezuelan. Because of that nationality first approach, it’s common to see - such as my family, an example: I have dark hair, my brother in law is ginger, my half sister is blonde and green eyes, and my aunt’s husband is black. We’re all from Venezuela, and it’s seen as normal? I’ve noticed in the U.S. that people obsess about identity and what they are when their identity is American. Italian Americans are different than Italian-Venezuelans because we just see ourselves as Venezuela in being our identity. So to me, I can’t process when an American white patent and an American black parent have a biracial child and anguish on what they’ll be and his sense of place. While that’s not really an issue for us for the most part. The child is Venezuelan first, everything else is secondary and that’s that. Not for every one of course, but in my experience living in northern SA and southern SA. But as I mentioned, that has its issue as well as overt nationalism can go very wrong and it has. So for sure exists. I’ve seen it. But it’s more passive. Here, I feel it is in your face. When I came here, I felt everyone disliked me: white, black, Asian, etc. Not to say direct racism doesn’t exist, as you’ll find white supremacist groups in SA as well. But this is my main take away. Most people who are racist will act like your best bud, but they’ll make snide comments in private like the ones you mentioned. Makes me think of the term Minnesota Nice lol U.S. - overt racism SA - overt nationalism

Since the 90s? Yes.

Right now probably not but he was really big during his peak

If you didn't care, why did you open this post and comment on it? You likely need to review your social media habits and adopt changes to improve your own mental and social well being. 

You're not funny nor terminally depressed enough to pull these comments off

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What are you, 12? Grow up.

People that like to read articles about creatives

Which doesn't make it better

You’re literally in a movie Sub.

I think you confused Banderas for yourself with your comments.

But like just block the sub, you won’t see posts you don’t care about anymore. People can care about different things and you don’t have to comment on or even see this kind of post