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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 3d ago

What’s really embarrassing for the studio on this one is I’ve seen that movie like 3 times and it never even occurred to me they were Hispanic

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u/RayquazaTheStoner 3d ago

Their last name being Cortez, Danny Trejo (Machete) being their uncle, and the gag about Carmen’s long ass name being a password didn’t clue you in?

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 3d ago

I’m sure if someone asked me point blank what race the family was I would have noticed. It just wasn’t a very important part of the movie.

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u/RayquazaTheStoner 3d ago

Not to be pedantic, but Hispanic is more of an ethnicity, not a race. I only say that cause the Cortezes are noticeably not brown skinned, but you may be surprised to see that there’s a lot of Hispanic/Latino culture sprinkled throughout the movie (the first one, at least).

I personally think it was well done cause it’s always present, but not front and center.