Diego Calva, who shares the big screen in 'Babylon' with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, wants viewers to remember early movie pioneers, some of whom were Latino, who helped make Hollywood.
Sthanlee B. Mirador / Sipa USA via AP“Babylon,” which opens nationwide Friday, tells an epic story about ordinary people who became Hollywood legends during the golden age of silent films in the 1920s.
“It was pretty cool to put a face to a successful Mexican in that time,” Calva told NBC News, referring to his fictional character Manny Torres, who ultimately works his way up from being an assistant to a silent movie producer. “Latinos, we were always here, you know, working on this.”, which could make his jump from television to film more permanent. Outside of “Babylon,” fans will recognize him from Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” in which he played the drug trafficker Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
Early Latino actors were featured in stereotypical characters as bandits, cantina girls and lovers. But some became legends in the 1920s, including the Mexican-born actor Ramón Novarro, who starred in the 1925 silent film hit “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.”
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