Washington DC [US], August 24 (ANI): Comedian and actor John Leguizamo recalled being 'humiliated ' by his role in Mike Nichols' 1991 film 'Regarding Henry', reported People.

Leguizamo played a convenience store robber in the movie, which centred on a lawyer, played by Harrison Ford, who loses his memory after being shot during the crime and struggles to regain his speech and mobility.

'You know, I was kind of humiliated by it,' Leguizamo said of his role in the movie. 'I did it because I got no jobs. There were no jobs for Latin folk. There just weren't,' as per the outlet.

He said that, as a Latino actor in the '90s, 'there were no opportunities,' as per the outlet.

'When I got Regarding Henry, it was a drug dealer. I shoot this white guy. It was like, I'm perpetuating what they want to see, which is negative Latino images.'

When asked if he was ever told to 'Latin it up a little more' for the part, Leguizamo said it was implied, reported People.

'They didn't have to say that to me as much. I was the flavour they were looking for, like a ghetto hoodrat,' he said. 'I had been working against that. All my acting teachers, when I was 17, were like, 'No one can understand you with that accent. Do you really speak that way?' '

While Leguizamo didn't like the message the part conveyed, he admittedly 'really wanted to meet Mike Nichols because he's one of the greats.'

'But there I am with my sloppy fro and I'm in the drugstore, I mean in the bodega, and there's Harrison Ford and I'm robbing the place,' he recalled. 'Even talking about it just gives me PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).'

In the three decades since starring in Regarding Henry, Leguizamo has been a big advocate for his community, pushing for more representation in films, lobbying for a National Museum of the American Latino, and creating a docuseries, Leguizamo Does America, that shines a spotlight on 'Latin excellence', reported People. (ANI)