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When John Leguizamo spoke out about diversity on Sunday night’s Emmy Awards telecast, he said, the audience at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles “got real quiet.” “I’m one of Hollywood’s DEI hires,” he said from the stage. “That’s right. DEI: The D is for ‘diligence,’ the E is for ‘excellence,’ the I is for ‘imagination.’” He said the industry often engaged in “brownface” casting, citing Marlon Brando in “Viva Zapata!” Al Pacino in “Scarface” and Natalie Wood in “West Side Story.
“Hollywood acts as if we didn’t exist until just now; they act as if we just got here,” he said. “We’ve been here since at least 1492, but it’s like we are erased from history in the media.” “The Green Veil” is especially important to Leguizamo because several networks passed on it, leading him to help launch the new streaming platform created by Aram Rappaport, who also wrote and directed the show. “We didn’t get picked up,” he said.
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