{"id":1249053,"date":"2022-01-27T22:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249053"},"modified":"2022-01-27T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:07:45","slug":"john-leguizamo-blasts-hollywood-for-colorism-i-stayed-out-of-the-sun-so-i-could-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-leguizamo-blasts-hollywood-for-colorism-i-stayed-out-of-the-sun-so-i-could-work\/","title":{"rendered":"John Leguizamo Blasts Hollywood for &#039;Colorism:&#039; &#039;I Stayed Out of the Sun So I Could Work&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-leguizamo-blasts-hollywood-for-colorism-i-stayed-out-of-the-sun-so-i-could-work%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1249053&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/johnLeguizamoemmysboycott1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Activist actor John Leguizamo is calling out Hollywood for \u201ccolorism\u201d and says that he avoids getting a tan so that his skin isn\u2019t too dark to make him unable to find work.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Encanto&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Ice Age <\/em>star&nbsp;claims that roles for light-skinned Latinos are plentiful but the opportunities for darker skinned Hispanics are far less available.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s colorism within Latin culture that we have to fix, but there\u2019s colorism in Hollywood too,\u201d Leguizamo says in a new series titled, <i>Seen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve benefitted from being light skin, and I stayed out of the sun so I could work. I definitely would not go in the sun.\u201d the <i>Spawn<\/i> star added. \u201cFor years I was so pasty so I could work. All the Latinos who\u2019ve made it so far, a lot of them were light skinned. What happened to all the Afro Latinos and the majority of the indigenous Latinos? They don\u2019t get a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Leguizamo went on to say that he was fired from a movie because the project had too many Latin actors in it. He said that the director told him he was being let go because they \u201ccouldn\u2019t have two Latin people in the movie because then it becomes a Latin movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe meant he can only have one token at a time,\u201d Leguizamo exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo also claimed that he has faced retaliation for speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing vocal has a cost. When I became politically conscious and then politically on my social, I lost half my followers,\u201d Leguizamo explained. \u201cThen I got a lot of hate tweets like, \u2018Go back to your country. Go back to Mexico.\u2019 I\u2019m not Mexican but I\u2019ll gladly go back to Mexico because it\u2019s a great country. When I post stuff on my Facebook, they say, \u2018John used to be so entertaining, but now you\u2019re a bore.\u2019 All this hate stuff, I just ignore. I feel like if you\u2019ve achieved a certain amount of success, it\u2019s your duty to give back. You gotta give back.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The interview was part of a series sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo has certainly been vocal about his political ideas and has spent years accusing people of racism for one reason or another. Last September, for instance, he attacked the recently announced <i>Super Mario Bros.<\/i> reboot for being \u201ctoo white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo, who starred in 1993\u2019s <i>Super Mario Bros.<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/09\/29\/john-leguizamo-rips-all-white-voice-cast-for-super-mario-bros-reboot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a> the upcoming project for having an all-white case.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Leguizamo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/14\/actor-john-leguizamo-critical-race-theory-is-my-whole-reason-for-being\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> opponents of Critical Race Theory, and said that those against CRT should \u201ccalm the fuck down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is teaching this stuff to your young kids so calm the fuck down,\u201d he said contrary to the evidence. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty high brow college-level stuff. And if your kids go to college, they\u2019re gonna definitely be exposed to this shit whether you agree with it no matter what you think. So again, calm the fuck down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo was also a constant anti-Trumper and attacker of white people, Republicans, and conservatives, on his social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist actor John Leguizamo is calling out Hollywood for \u201ccolorism\u201d and says that he avoids getting a tan so that his skin isn\u2019t too dark to make him unable to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}