Penélope Cruz Hesitated to Play Colombian Spy in ‘355’ - Jessica Chastain Explains the Casting

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Penélope Cruz Hesitated to Play Colombian Spy in #The355 - Jessica Chastain Explains the Casting https://t.co/xwT9qBk49J pic.twitter.com/X4WZaJsii4
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) October 8, 2020

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when the The 355 trailer came out people were confused about spanish Penélope Cruz playing a colombian spy

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[littlebones]

what? if you already changed the character from brasilian to colombian, why didn't you just change her to spanish in the first place?

and who doesn't know that brasilians speak portugese? tf?

[ohmylol]

You'll be surprised, a lot of people believe they speak spanish because Brasil is a Latin American country

[sexmeupscotty]

that's like, the ONE thing I know about Brazil. I'm not bragging about that, but c'mon

[chocolateamargo]

You would be surprised. A lot of people think SA only speaks Spanish. When we have countries with English/French/Dutch as official languages as well

[therearewords]

Dutch? Oh, Suriname and the Antilles of course.

[willardwright]

I remember there was once an ONTD post about some celeb who though Brazilians speak Spanish and there was a lot of people in the comments getting angry like "omg, it's not common knowledge at all, AM I EXPECTED TO KNOW EVERY LANGUAGE OF EVERY COUNTRY?"

[alienjive]

Shit now I’m getting nightmare flashbacks of the Jackie Chan/Jet Li post

[littlebones]

apparently so with the replies i'm getting! i'm so surprised.

[aimezetmusique]

American education isn’t known for its great focus on geography outside of North America. We had a foreign exchange student from Brazil in HS and kids kept speaking to him with the Spanish they were learning and so many learned then that no, it’s Portuguese.

[warwarwar]

That just have been so frustrating for him

[lovelyluna34]

when i was leaving los angeles to move to argentina i had a co worker think Argentina was next to Italy
so ya people don't know shit

[lovelyluna34]

Ya I’m still here 15 years

[er1s]

you should have run while you had the chance...

[lovelyluna34]

Run from Argentina? I love it here