John Leguizamo feels 'humiliated' by his role in Henry

Washington DC [US]August 24 (Ani): Comedian and actor John Leguizamo remembers being ‘humiliated’ by his role in Mike Nichols’ film ‘regarding Henry’ from 1991, People reports. Leguizamo played a convenience store in the film, which centered on an advocate, played by Harrison Ford, who lost his memory after being shot during the crime and struggling to regain his speech and mobility. “You know, I was a kind of humiliated by it,” Leguizamo said of his role in the film. “I did it because I got no job. There was no work for Latin people. There just wasn’t, ‘according to the outlet. He said that, as a Latino actor in the 90s, “there were no opportunities”, according to the outlet. “When I touched Henry, it was a drug dealer. I shoot this white man. It was as if I was going on to see what they wanted to see, it was negative Latino images. ‘ When asked if he was ever told that he was a little more a little more, “Leguizamo said it was implied, people reports. “They don’t have to say that that much to me. I was the taste they were looking for, like a ghetto cape, “he said. “I worked against it. All my acting teachers, when I was 17, were like, ‘No one can understand you with that accent. Do you really talk that way? ” While Leguizamo did not like the message that conveyed the part, he wanted to really meet Mike Nichols because he was one of the great. “But there I am with my sloppy front and I am in the drugstore, I mean in the bodega, and there is Harrison Ford and I rob the place,” he recalls. “Even talking about it just gives me PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).” In the three decades since he interpreted in Henry, Leguizamo was a big proponent of his community, and he had more representation in films, a national museum of the American Latino and the creation of a documentation, reports Leguizamo, who does a spotlight on ‘Latin Excellence’, people reports. (Ani)