Oscar winner Mira Sorvino says “Hollywood bias” has tainted her career and claims she is being discriminated against by “computer casting directors who prevent her from playing Latin American roles.”
Oscar winner Mira Sorvino has said her career has been blighted by Hollywood bosses who once called her Latina but now prevent her from playing such roles.
The Mighty Aphrodite star said she was only offered Latin American, Brazilian, Portuguese and Italian roles until she dyed her hair blonde to play a prostitute in Woody Allen’s 1995 romantic comedy.
Now she claims to be the victim of a new form of discrimination as political correctness in Hollywood means that casting directors will no longer cast her for characters of a different ethnicity.
“At the beginning of my career, I couldn’t play a girl who wasn’t Italian or Spanish or Portuguese or Puerto Rican — just like I couldn’t play a Middle American girl Jo Shmo,” said the 54-year-old actress. WTF podcast. “I used to only get characters with vowels at the end of the name.”
The New York-born actress, who was born in New York to half-British parents, and Paul Sorvino, the Italian-born Goodfellas star, added: “It’s because of my exotic name Mira Sorvino, because I didn’t change it. .’
Oscar winner Mira Sorvino has said her career has been blighted by Hollywood bosses who once called her Latino but now ban her from playing such roles.
But Sorvino said she has also fallen victim to Hollywood’s recent bias, where her past roles are now out of reach.
Her comments come after Maureen Lipman recently criticized the candidacy of non-Jewish Helen Mirren for the role of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, as well as a controversy over Oscar-winning Spaniard Javier Bardem, who played Cuban-American actor Desi Arnaz opposite Nicole Kidman in ” To be Ricardo.
Ms. Sorvino said, “Now I can’t play half the roles I played back then because it would be seen as taking them away from someone who was Hispanic.
“So I couldn’t play at least the three or four roles that I played in the beginning because I wasn’t ethnically authentic. You saw what a big deal Javier Bardem was, there was a whole controversy about the fact that he is a Spaniard and plays a Cuban.
The mother-of-four also claimed to have been discriminated against due to starting a family, saying, “I also lost several body parts over the years of pregnancy.”
She said her career has started to blossom again after a 20-year period when she was limited to roles in television and independent films after turning down the sexual harassment of sexual predator producer Harvey Weinstein.
But Sorvino said she has also fallen victim to Hollywood’s latest bias, where her past roles are now unavailable.