With a number of impressive roles under his belt, Lou Diamond Phillips is opening up about playing those diverse characters.
The actor, who is Flipino American, joined SiriusXM’s “The Clay Cane Show” on Friday and shared why he takes on Latino, Chilean and Native American roles. “If I only played my bloodline [Filipino] I’d never work…” he explained. “It’s very bizarre, especially early on for me.
I was very proud, and I’ve always approached it in this fashion. Whenever I am representing a community whether it’s the Latino community in ‘La Bamba’ or ‘Stand and Deliver,’ or most recently in ‘The 33’ where I played one of the Chilean miners with Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, just an incredibly international cast, most of us were not
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