John Leguizamo had been pitching a docuseries about Latinx excellence in America for two years before MSNBC finally picked up the idea, which became the six-part show “Leguizamo Does America.”
Leguizamo has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most visible champions of Latinx culture. His uncompromising call for inclusion also makes him one of the group’s most fierce activists. It was not a role he envisioned for himself as a starry-eyed young acting hopeful from the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.
Leguizamo said until then he had been idealistic and believed in American meritocracy. As an A-student, paying the same tuition as his white peers, he realized that ideal was a lie when faced with cast breakdowns featuring only “white male actor, white lead actor, white romantic lead, white doctor.
In that show, Leguizamo set out to unearth the untold Latinx history that his son never learned in school.including awful ones about how a majority of Latinx people suffered genocide — with entire languages, cultures and religions destroyed.
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