in the American typecasting sense. It's like the difference between an Italian person and a guy of Italian descent. You know?

Roberto Begnini is Italian
Nicolas Cage is of Italian descent.

Nicolas Cage is not ethnic, and was horrible as an Italian in Captain Correlli's Mandolin.

Unfortunately - or fortunately - blacks can't lose their ethnicity, no matter how well they speak. European white - like the Spanish - can. But Penelope Cruz hasn't and probably won't. Because her ethnicity is why she works over here.

RED
No dream. Lose the race, fat boy.