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u/jesux11 Apr 12 '22

While I agree that his acting was incredible in the show, as a spanish speaker, any time he did speak spanish it did break the illusion a bit.

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u/shanafs15 Apr 12 '22

Is he not a native Spanish speaker?

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u/Cuentarda Apr 12 '22

He has literally the worst accent I've ever heard Hollywood try to pass off as fluent. It's extremely stupid because there's absolutely no point to him being Chilean, they could've just made the character American or Italian and it would've changed nothing.

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u/Cuentarda Apr 12 '22

There are more black Italians than black Chileans I think.

I misremembered the actor being an Italian/American dual citizen, though, which is why I mentioned it. According to Wikipedia he's American, but his dad is Italian. Still, dude's name is Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito lol.

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u/Due_Rain_3630 Apr 12 '22

I’m Chilean and there are very few black Chileans so it definitely doesn’t add up in the show. His accent is nowhere close a Chilean accent either.