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Steven Spielberg on Authentic Casting in ‘West Side Story’: ‘This Is the Way to Do It’
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variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSteven Spielberg has a simple reason for why he made sure Latino characters were played by Latino actors in his “West Side Story” adaptation.“This is the way to do it,” the director said Tuesday at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. “This is the way we are in this world.
This is where we should have always been, but this is very important, especially in ‘West Side Story.’ We have to get it right.
It’s not that other productions didn’t get it right in their own way, but I just did not want to make this reimagining without complete representation [and] authentic representation from the entire Latinx community.
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