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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[0plumscent]

lol south americans are all the same to the rest of the world, it's so infuriating

[missjersey]

When I had the idea of making this film, we didn’t have a script or financing.

Okay so make the character from Spain. And if you need her to have some connection to South America, say that she has some family that lives there. Right?

[yeezy]

she could've easily been a spaniard living in sa, like the daughter of the ambassador or w.e

[spoil]

That would be TOO easy!

[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

[lyra_loo]

This makes it worse, and it really sounds like this movie is going to be hot garbage. If they didn't have a script... why not just make her character, y'know, SPANISH???

[yeezy]

At the end of the day, it wasn’t important where the characters came from

???? then why didn't they make her character spanish??? like where is the logic lmao

[bellwetherr]

lmao right?