![]() ![]() “I don’t remember anything because I was drunk,” he said with a laugh. He was broke-he’d been paid around $4,000 for the film, he said, but he’d gone through most of that and was eager to party. Huerta was 26 when he finally traveled on a plane-in 2007 to the Cannes film festival in southern France to screen Deficit. Then we squeezed into a dusty SUV, road-trip style, and drove to his childhood home in Ecatepec, the labyrinthine Mexico City suburb of nearly 2 million that has a reputation for being one of the country's most contaminated and insecure. ![]() I wasn’t expecting Huerta to pick me up at my apartment and then propose that the whole crew (a driver, his manager, press aide, photographer, and me) get coffee before we head out. Huerta accused them of adopting a “white savior” attitude and promoting “white environmentalism.” Huerta, who’s also also against the development-he’s called it a “colonialist” project-says it should be the Mayan people themselves who decide whether it should go forward.īut in real life, Huerta is down-to-earth and funny, and his frequent laughter tones down even his harshest comments. In March, several actors and musicians came out against a massive development project championed by Mexico’s president to build a 950-mile rail line through the rainforest to bring tourists to Mayan archeological sites. Huerta’s stamina for online spats can feel endless. Over Christmas, he set Mexican Twitter alight when he wrote “the beautiful time of year has arrived when we dark-skinned people will be followed in all the shopping centers.” He’s given a TED talk about racism, created a video series to expound on the topic, and makes fun of “Whitexicans,” a mixture of the words white and Mexican to pejoratively refer to Mexico’s wealthy and light-skinned elite. He describes himself on his Twitter and Instagram profiles as “Prieto Resentido” (resentful dark-skinned man). Or Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s poured millions into environmental causes. Huerta is not as easy to digest as, say, fellow Mexican film star Diego Luna, his Narcos co-star who also tackles migration, corruption, and the pandemic over a dinner series streamed on Amazon Prime. The study found that all minority groups were underrepresented, with the exception of Black people in film leads. population, according to UCLA's annual Hollywood Diversity Report. Of the top 200 English-language film releases in 2021, just 7 percent featured a Latino actor in a lead role, even though Latinos make up more than 18 percent of the U.S. I create a new personality, a new character each time.” “They are always calling me to make the same character. And we fit under that stereotype,” Huerta said. So they call the brown-skinned people to make them. “They need thieves, they need kidnappers, they need whores. ![]()
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