“Why didn’t you cast a Latin actor?” asked one fan, after the first trailer dropped (via toofab)
The first trailer for the upcoming film dropped last week, in which LaBeouf and costar Bobby Soto play"tax collectors" for a Los Angeles crime boss. After it dropped, one fan tagged the director on Twitter to ask a"really important question."
"@DavidAyerMovies Hey, really important question that I think you should answer publicly in 2020," it began."Is Shia Lebouf playing a Latino character in Tax Collector? If so, why didn't you cast a Latin actor?" "Really important answer - Shia is playing a whiteboy who grew up in the hood," Ayer replied."This is a Jewish dude playing a white character. Also the only white dude in the movie."
"I grew up hood and I'm a whiteboy," he continued."Chicano culture is inclusive - I've seen whiteys, Asians, Blacks, Filipinos all putting in work for the hood. It's part of street culture." Ayer responded to another critic who tweeted,"Tell all the kids how you're Hollywood's top cholo auteur, and your pretzel reasons Shia Lebeouf is sort of kind of playing a weird movie cholo in a cop movie and how all of this isn't really #brownfacing"
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