Hispanic Actors React to Lack of Diversity, Opportunities in Hollywood Movie Roles

By Scharon Harding

In early August, the University of Southern California revealed that Hispanics are highly underrepresented in top Hollywood movies. Now, actors from the Hispanic community are reacting.
The six-year-long study, "Race/Ethnicity in 600 Popular Films: Examining On Screen Portrayals and Behind the Camera Diversity," examined over 25,000 characters in all of the top-grossing films from 2007-2013. The study found that Hispanics played a mere 4.9 percent of the characters studied, despite the group representing 16.3 of the U.S. population (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) and 25 percent of movie ticket sales.

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