In “Christmas With You,” Freddie Prinze Jr. portrays Miguel, a track instructor and unmarried father with a Latino background. Because the actor mentioned on The Communicate, he used to be deeply appreciative of the risk to play a personality with a equivalent cultural identification to his personal. “I really like my tradition,” he mentioned. “So it used to be one thing essential to me and I were given the chance to blow their own horns. Like I have been pronouncing, I have been ready 20-plus years to do it.”
As Prinze Jr. instructed Leisure This night, he has technically performed Latino characters prior to, however the ones roles did not meaningfully cope with it by any means. “I do not get to play Latinos very incessantly on this industry until I create and write the display,” he mentioned. “Differently, it is all the time an after-the-fact studio factor, the place the nature’s name is Mike Smith and [then] they solid me it is Mike Ramirez, and rapidly, they are like, ‘Glance, we employed numerous other folks.’ And it is an afterthought, so I do not depend any of the ones.”
In particular taking part in a Latino father used to be additionally the most important issue to Prinze Jr. The actor’s father Freddie Prinze Sr. died by means of suicide in 1977, prior to Prinze Jr. had even celebrated his first birthday. “This [project] additionally gives a chance to be a Latino father,” he defined to The Hollywood Reporter. “Rising up with out one, it used to be a chance to display what I all the time sought after, what I wanted for and what I fantasized about.”
