Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez: We Latinos are an undeniable demographic reality in this country

For the Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez it is “a very big privilege to take part in the film of a Latin American heroe like Roberto Durán”. He will play the role of the Panamanian boxer Roberto “Mano de Piedra” Durán in the film Hands of Stone.He expressed that the movie was very important since, the stories that usually arrive to Hollywood are those of bad Latinos, “but this time, the story is about a good man. That is very important. Not only was he a great athlete and took a lot glory to his country, he was also a great satisfaction for Latin America.”When consulted on the growth of Latino talent in Hollywood, he commented that there are increasingly more opportunities and that things are opening up, but there is still a great deal of work ahead.”We Hispanics are bigger as a group and a culture in the US. There are increasingly more Latinos in positions of power in all areas and obviously this has an impact in the communication and entertainment media. We are an undeniable demographic reality and there are more and more opportunities for us as an answer to that impact,” he said.Hands of Stone, directed by the also Venezuelan Jonathan Jakubowicz (Secuestro Express), reaches the US movie theaters on Friday August 26. It narrates the life of Roberto Durán (Ramírez), the Panamanian boxer who had his professional debut in 1968 at the age of 16 and retired in 2002 at the age of 50. In June 1980, Durán defeated Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond), thus achieving the title of welterweight champion of the WBC, but later he returned to the world of boxing to his corner in the rematch in November, when he said the famous words, “no more.”