{"id":5084960,"date":"2016-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/eva-longoria-states-hollywoods-diversity-problem-runs-much-deeper-than-the-oscars\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:00:00","slug":"eva-longoria-states-hollywoods-diversity-problem-runs-much-deeper-than-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/03\/01\/eva-longoria-states-hollywoods-diversity-problem-runs-much-deeper-than-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Longoria States Hollywood's Diversity Problem Runs Much Deeper Than The Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part The New York Times’ interactive project, “What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood* (*If you’re not a straight white man), Longoria opened up about what it\u2019s like being a person of color in a predominantly white industry. Spoiler: not easy.
\n“I remember moving to L.A. and auditioning and not being Latin enough for certain roles,” Longoria recalls in the piece, released Wednesday.
\n“Some white male casting director was dictating what it meant to be Latin. He decided I needed an accent. He decided I should [have] darker-colored skin. The gatekeepers are not usually people of color, so they don\u2019t understand you should be looking for way more colors of the rainbow within that one ethnicity.”
\nAnd therein lies the root of Hollywood’s diversity problem: The people writing the scripts, casting Latino characters and green lighting projects don\u2019t understand the nuances of Latino culture. As a result, they are ill-equipped to accurately and fairly represent Latinos.\u2019
\nLongoria\u2019s anecdote speaks to a pervasive culture rooted in racism and steeped in stereotypes. When broken down, line by line, her story reveals several misguided assumptions that the entertainment industry has erroneously made about Latinos.
\nLongoria is doing her part to try and flip the script. She is currently the executive producer and star of NBC\u2019s “Telenovela.”
\n“On ‘Telenovela,’ it was refreshing for casting to go: “Eva, you\u2019re Latino heavy. We need to cast one white male somewhere in there.’
\nThese limited views of Latinos impact the ways in which non-Latino see Latinos in real life, thus contributing to an endless cycle of prejudice and misrepresentation.
\nTo read the full story:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/eva-longoria-perfectly-summarizes-what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-latinos_us_56d0a57ae4b03260bf76b694<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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