{"id":2257461,"date":"2026-01-30T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257461"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:21:10","slug":"eva-longoria-john-leguizamo-and-more-latino-artists-sign-open-letter-urging-for-accountability-and-equity-amid-deep-cuts-casting-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/eva-longoria-john-leguizamo-and-more-latino-artists-sign-open-letter-urging-for-accountability-and-equity-amid-deep-cuts-casting-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Longoria, John Leguizamo and More Latino Artists Sign Open Letter Urging for \u201cAccountability and Equity\u201d Amid \u2018Deep Cuts\u2019 Casting Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eva Longoria<\/a>, John Leguizamo<\/a> and Xochitl Gomez<\/a> are among a group of over 100 Latino actors, artists and storytellers who have signed an open letter urging Hollywood to increase Latino voices across all avenues of the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

In the letter, the group of creatives acknowledged backlash that ensued after Odessa A\u2019zion<\/a> was cast in Sean Durkin<\/a>\u2019s A24<\/a> film Deep Cuts<\/a> as character Zoe Gutierrez, who is described in the book that the film is based on as half Mexican and half Jewish. Amid the controversy, the Marty Supreme star announced Wednesday that she had dropped out of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent casting decisions around the character Zoe Gutierrez in A24\u2019s Deep Cuts<\/a> have exposed a troubling pattern. We acknowledge and commend Odessa A\u2019zion for listening, reflecting and deciding to exit the project and become an ally. Yet how did this happen?\u201d the letter reads in part. \u201cThe absence of Latina audition opportunities,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eva Longoria, John Leguizamo and Xochitl Gomez are among a group of over 100 Latino actors, artists and storytellers who have signed an open letter urging Hollywood to increase Latino voices across all avenues of the entertainment industry. In the letter, the group of creatives acknowledged backlash that ensued after Odessa A\u2019zion was cast in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2257461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Eva-Longoria-John-Leguizamo-and-More-Latino-Artists-Sign-Open.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257463,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257461\/revisions\/2257463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}