NYDailyNews: Clifton Collins Jr. feels safe at home with his Mexican heritage in ‘The Perfect Game’
A scene from “The Perfect Game” featuring (left to right) Clifton Collins Jr. as César, Moisés Arias as Mario, and Jansen Panettiere as Enrique.
Clifton Collins Jr. didn’t want to play another Latino. Even though he liked the part – a coach who, in real life, guided a group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico, to the championship of the Little League World Series – he’d taken several Latino roles in a row, and didn’t want to be typecast.
So Collins passed on “The Perfect Game.”
But months later, after the producers had hired another actor, became dissatisfied with him, then shut down production for a while, they approached Collins again. He had played non-Hispanics in “Sunshine Cleaning” and other films since his… READ MORE
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