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John Leguizamo, Stephanie Beatriz, Benjamin Bratt and More on Fighting for Parity Beyond Representation

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David Viramontes Even for celebrated Latinx performers like John Leguizamo, finding success in the entertainment industry is a hard-fought and seemingly never-ending battle.

But as a newcomer to the business, Leguizamo recalls being galvanized by the struggle into telling his own stories.“I just kept getting put into these really negative roles that I felt I was contributing to the downgrade of the Latinx image in the media,” he tells Variety. “I wanted to write my own stuff, so I could portray my people the way I saw them and felt them.” And that’s exactly what the Leguizamo did.

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