Antonio Banderas came to Hollywood and "they said, ‘You are here, like the Blacks and the Hispanics, to play the bad guys.'"
"The problem was a few years later I had a mask, hat, sword and cape [as Zorro] and the bad guy was Captain Love, who was blond and had blue eyes. Even in Boots,’ because it’s for young kids. They see a cat that has a Spanish, even an Andalusian accent and he’s a good guy.” (via The Times of London)
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