Salma Hayek 'Furious' About Lack of Latin Actors in Oscars
Salma Hayek 'Furious' About Lack of Latin Actors in Oscars Hayek was the first Mexican actress to earn an Oscar nomination for her lead role in the 2002 film "Frida" about artist Frida Kahlo's life. The lack of diversity in U.S. cinema also affects Latin actors and directors, Mexican actress Salma Hayek said in an interview on Sad “When I was nominated, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington had won the previous year,” added the 50-year-old actress, as the absence of Afro-American actors was at the center of controversies in Oscars previous editions, in 2015 and 2016. “No one ever talks about that and it makes me furious,” she told EFE when she was asked about the usual absence of Latin actors at the Oscars ceremony. "Everyone talked about Afro-Americans in the Oscars. And that year (I was nominated), there was Pedro Almodovar, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfonso Cuaron... I was the first Hispanic nominated in history in the Best Actress category the first Lati...