Monday, October 30, 2017

Ash vs. Evil Dead star Ray Santiago built a career by defying racist stereotypes



When Ray Santiago was a teenager, an acting coach gave him one of those out-of-the-blue, kinda-sorta compliments that doesn't so much warm the heart as freeze the brain.

"He said, 'You could play Ben Stiller's half-Latino son, if there was a movie for that,'" Santiago recalls, laughing. "And, I was like, 'Wait, what?!'"

What was likely a stray observation — Santiago, like Stiller, does have some prominent eyebrows — soon became the most unlikely and laser-specific prophecy of all time. A year or so later, Santiago found himself in Los Angeles, cast as Ben Stiller's illegitimate, half-Latino son in Meet the Fockers.

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