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islandmkl

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7. Heston wasn't exactly 'type cast'...every time i've watched the film i've wondered how Welles

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #6)

Thu May 5, 2016, 09:09 AM

May 2016

picked him to play the part...on checking, it appears the character was written as a white cop, but Welles changed the character into a Mexican narcotics cop...Charlton Heston cited not doing a Hispanic accent for his Mexican narcotics officer Miguel 'Mike' Vargas as one of the biggest mistakes he ever made as an actor

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