Original Luigi actor John Leguizamo refuses to watch ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’
nme.comThe Super Mario Bros. Movie due to its lack of diversity.The actor, who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros.
opposite Bob Hoskins, told TMZ he won’t watch the animated reboot because the film “messed up” by not including Latin actors in the voice cast.“They could’ve included a Latin character,” Leguizamo said. “I was groundbreaking, and they stopped the groundbreaking.
They messed up the inclusion, they disincluded.”He added: “Just cast some Latin folk. We’re 20 per cent of the population, the largest people of colour group, and we’re underrepresented.
Overrepresented in the worst kind of jobs, though.”Asked one final time about possibly seeing the movie, Leguizamo stated: “Hell no!”The actor previously criticised the “backwards” casting in The Super Mario Bros.
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