Spy Kids Latino, even though he had written the script and was due to direct the film, too.Rodriguez admitted as much during a recent Comic-Con@Home panel on Thursday, via Indiewire, recalling how he had to convince the financiers that making most of the cast Latino wouldn’t adversely its impact at the box-office.“For me it was a big victory … to have the kids in Spy Kids be a Latin family, “ said Rodriguez, who was born in San Antonio to parents of Mexican descent. “The studio was like, ‘Why are you making them Latin, though, why don’t you just make them American?’ They are American, they’re based on my family.”Rodriguez’s inspiration for Spy Kids was his uncle Gregorio, who worked for years at the FBI, and was even the name of Antonio.
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