Antonio Banderas Came to Hollywood and Execs Told Him: ‘You Are Here, Like the Blacks and Hispanics, to Play the Bad Guys’

Antonio Banderas said in a recent interview with The Times of London (via The Independent) that he was warned upon arriving in Hollywood that Latinos and Blacks could only play villain roles, a stereotype he would later shatter by playing the swashbuckler Zorro in 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro.” “They said, ‘You are here, like []