John Leguizamo avoided sun ‘for years’ to stay light skinned for Hollywood roles

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John Leguizamo avoided sun ‘for years’ to stay light skinned for Hollywood roles
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'What happened to all the Afro Latinos and the majority of Indigenous Latinos? They don’t get a shot,' the actor said. 'So, there’s a lot of things we got to deal with in Hollywood.' - NBCLatino

of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that he made a deliberate choice in his career to stay out of the sun in order to continue booking roles as a light-skinned Latino actor. The actor said he has long “benefitted from being light-skinned” in Hollywood and addressed issues of colorism within Hollywood and within Latin culture.

Leguizamo also reacted to last year’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which looked at the 1,300 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2019 and found that only 7% of films from 2019 featured a lead/co-lead Hispanic/Latino actor.

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