John Leguizamo Remembered Avoiding The Sun 'For Years' At The Beginning Of His Acting Career So That He 'Could Work'

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'There's a lot of things we've got to deal with in Hollywood, and we've got to fix.'

"I stayed out of the sun so I could work," he shared."It was a conscious thing because I could work. And all the Latinos that made it so far, a lot of them were all light-skinned. What happened to all the Afro-Latinos and the majority of indigenous Latinos? They don't get a shot, you know.

""So, there's a lot of things we've got to deal with in Hollywood, and we've got to fix, and we've got to speak out and we've got to speak up," John continued, saying elsewhere in hisinterview that being an example for children of color seeking representation in media is important to him, and a responsibility that he takes very seriously."That's what I wanted to do with my work.

 

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