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Originally Posted by Sainters7
Montana was convincing enough, I was more refering to characters like Frank Lopez, played by a white, American, red-headed actor, just given an awful orange tan and painfully fake accent. Doesn't grind my gears or anything, I like this movie in all its cheese. I just think 30 years later, you should probably go a little more legit and hire real Latinos for Latino roles. No need to go blackface anymore (or orangeface).
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There are lots of white people from Cuba. Lopez is also supposed to be a Jewish immigrant to Cuba who later immigrated to the USA. So you would expect him to be relatively white skinned. Robert Loggia, the Italian American actor who played Frank Lopez, did a bang up job in my opinion. He's also of 100% sicilian descent, which doesn't exactly make him the pale face you describe him as.
I would say the only questionable casting in terms of ethnicity/race was Al Pacino himself. Although his acting job was so great, although at times over the top, it's hard to argue with the results.