'If Monday’s choices made anything clear, it’s that the 68% male, 84% white voting members of the Academy are not as progressive as they might like to believe,' writes lpbradley
to play the younger Bergoglio, but much of the character’s moral reckoning happens later, when Pryce handles the role. Perhaps that’s why few reviews have mentioned the implications of the Welsh Pryce playing the role, both for the film and for the legions of Latino actors who would likely have loved to sink their teeth into a character like Pope Francis. It’s hard not to wonder what an Argentinian or Argentinian-American actor might have done with the character’s more meditative moments.
Then there are the jokes this awards season—and it’s not just that unfortunate Hayek line from the Globes, either.’s original screenplay, has been praised up and down for its smart, modern take on the whodunit—including from: its treatment of the caretaker Marta, played by de Armas. The film, Castillo wrote, “has a tendency to exploit its story’s immigration angle, which left me feeling uneasy as strangers at the screening I attended laughed at real-life issues I’m genuinely frightened of.
All of these things, however minor they might seem on the surface, add up. For all the lip service Hollywood likes to pay to its own progressivism, the industry has failed at the basic task of hiring and recognizing Latino talent. It’s become hard to even work oneself up into much of a fury because it all feels so…expected.
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