Emilio was the realist: Martin Sheen Says He Regrets Not Using His Real Name When He Started His Acting Career

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I mean Martin is half Spanish/half Irish while the kids are only 1/4 Spanish.

He could have used his real name....problem is that dude was from Dayton, Ohio. Hard to sell that Desi Arnaz Latin lover thing when you sound like a Midwest white dude. Having an actual white Spanish dad just means you're white anyway.

It's like Tony Romo aka Antonio Ramiro Romo (white mom/Mexican dad, from the Midwest) trying to lean on his Latino heritage...wouldn't come across as authentic. Makes even less sense for Charlie or Emilio to do it.
 

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And let’s be honest, the average CAC doesn’t understand the difference between someone who is Spanish and someone who is Hispanic. They would’ve thought Martin Sheen jumped the border to get to America if he used his birth name. His agent did the right thing.

Now being “ethnic” and “diverse” is the in thing, one by one, all these CACs have gone from being $5 Indians to claiming they have Negro Ancestry, just in case they reboot Roots.
 

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You’d be surprised how many Jewish actors anglicized their names. Yeah they run Hollywood but they knew how to blend in and sell their “whiteness” to middle America.
Not even just Hollywood

Mark Cubans Grandaddy surname was Chebenisky but changed it to Cuban when the family came here.

Still :mjlol: at Whoopi making her stage name Goldberg….but it worked :francis:
 

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Back when he started no way anyone called Estevez is getting anywhere in Hollywood.

He may 'regret' it now but his agent was right.
Estevez was definitely not a name that guaranteed you a long career back in the day. If he wanted to make a bag, he did what he had to do.

Patrice has so many gems that people missed until well after he died. He was funnier than anyone during this roast.
You’d be surprised how many Jewish actors anglicized their names. Yeah they run Hollywood but they knew how to blend in and sell their “whiteness” to middle America.

Yeah, Jon Stewart...is actually Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.
 

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Desi Arnaz did alright for himself.

Desi Arnaz went on TV in the 50s singing praise songs to Obaluaye, the Yoruba God of pestilence and dikking down Americas favorite comedy PAWG while not giving a single fukk. Martin Sheen is a purebred Spanish CAC with a bisexual drug addict woman beating son

 
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