Benicio Del Toro Hopes for a 'Latino Movement' in Cinema

Academy Award-winning actor Benecio Del Toro hopes to see a “Latino movement” in American cinema similar to the Italian American movement of the 1970s and the black American movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

Speaking with Variety about his work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed movie One Battle After Another , the Traffic star said that he hopes for a surge in Latin-American filmmakers on the level of Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese, focused on telling the Latin-American story.

“I still haven’t seen a Latino movement,” he said. “There was an African American movement with Spike Lee, Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. There’s a lot of filmmakers, and it’s amazing. The Italian American story has been told. Latino is somewhat different.”

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