Yeah, and almost offended sometimes that I don’t speak Spanish. And I wish I did. I feel like such a provincial American not being bilingual, but I’ve been incredibly proud to represent numerous Latino communities throughout my career. Now Chilean, but certainly Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, even Bolivian. And it’s kind of in the same boat as me representing Native American communities, and as a result I’ve been adopted into the Cheyenne Nation because of my work as Henry Standing Bear on Longmire. The Lakota Nation adopted me in the early nineties after Young Guns. And I look at it the same way every single time. I try to be specific to the community that I’m representing. I don’t just go in and paint it all with the same brush, and I also try to do it with respect and with dignity, because I’m representing a culture to the world. And I feel incredibly fortunate that my ambiguous ethnicity allows me to do that, and to morph into whatever character that I’m representing.
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