Who is andrew orozco

As Native actors, do you get type-casted a lot at auditions? Like I go into a casting and see everybody sitting there, blonde-haired blue-eyed, and light-skinned. ANDREW: I feel Hollywood type-casts a lot of the Native American actors which makes it a bit more difficult for us to get a bigger, mainstream role but overall I really feel strongly that there should be more mainstream Native American actors.

Do you feel there should be more Native actors in Hollywood? I think more Natives should try to make it into Hollywood. That is what I strive to do in my career, hopefully I can be a mainstream Native American actor. Adam Beach mentioned in an interview that for him, Hollywood casting non-Natives to play Native characters set a dangerous precedent because it conveyed a message to Native actors that they were not good enough to carry a leading role. Do you find any truth to that statement?

For that I support Native actors that are trying to get into mainstream just as any other actor out there. Has there ever been an instance in which you felt pressured to portray a version of who you are as a Native in a negative light?

Hope not. Hopefully one day Natives will get away from the stereotypes that Hollywood portrays us as and show them that we are as talented as anyone else. When it does happen I need to stay open to who I am and scripts that do not discriminate who I am as a person. This is why it is hard to get certain roles as a Native actor because some roles portray a Native in a negative light but you have to be open-minded and optimistic, but I will never forget who I am.

Do you feel any pressure to uphold a certain image of yourselves? I just have my privacy and not worry about what people think about me. I get a lot of that misconstrued. People can judge you by what they see but only you know who you are.

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