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Antonio Banderas revealed in an interview with The Times of London that upon arriving in Hollywood he was told Latinos and Black actors were there only to play villains. He went on to shatter that stereotype by playing the heroic Zorro in the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro." The actor spoke candidly about the racist typecasting he encountered early in his American career.

Antonio Banderas said in a recent interview with The Times of London (via The Independent) that he was warned upon arriving in Hollywood that Latinos and Blacks could only play villain roles, a stereotype he would later shatter by playing the swashbuckler Zorro in 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro.” “They said, ‘You are here, like […]