Word: hollywood
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...just mentioned earlier, Ira Hayes has been portrayed on film several times: first by Lee Marvin in an NBC television special in 1960 and then by Tony Curtis in The Outsider. Why do you think it took Hollywood so long to cast an Indian in the role...
...actor, a Salteaux Indian from Manitoba, has more than two dozen films to his credit, including the critically acclaimed Smoke Signals and the John Woo-directed Windtalkers, where he starred opposite Nicolas Cage. He chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about war, the state of Native actors in Hollywood and the comic book superhero he would one day like to portray...
...course! People think they have the right to use that term with an Indian person. I don't get upset because I know they don't know any better. It's how people acknowledge Indians. Hollywood has portrayed such a negative image of who we are as people up on screen. They don't realize that there is a culture. There's another part of us that exists...
...ultimate achievement. Look at the history of Native American people in Hollywood: they have not been represented in a human way on film. I didn't want this role to be about stereotypes. Ira Hayes has been played before as this raging alcoholic who is angry at the world. But he's not. He's very proud. When he drank, it was just his way of coping. That's how a lot of veterans coped with their emotions. This isn't a one-dimensional only-Indians-drink-alcohol portrayal. He was a person fighting a battle. Here...
...lose--whether González Iñárritu, del Toro and Cuarón come away with a half-dozen Oscars or none--their individual and collective eminence is great news for international cinema. And for Hollywood too. American movies are in their most artless, complacent period since, I don't know, ever. Somebody's got to shake the place up, and it might as well be the Mexicans...