The remake of the classic movie musical West Side Story is now in theaters and director Steven Spielberg is opening up about why he decided to not include subtitles for the Spanish dialogue.
Most of the film is spoken and sung in English, but the Latinx characters speak in Spanish for some moments and none of the dialogue has subtitles. Click inside to find out what Steven Spielberg said… Spielberg explained how he mandated that he “wasn’t going to entertain any auditions that aren’t parents or grandparents or themselves from Latinx countries… Especially Puerto Rico, we looked a lot in Puerto Rico, we have 20 performers in our film from Puerto Rico or they’re Nuyorican.” “That was very important and that goes hand-in-hand with my
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