Molina, who has lived in Los Angeles since the mid 1990s, is indeed still very busy. People ask me, ‘Are you still alive?’ not ‘Are you busy?’” But I’m at a stage at my career where it doesn't matter any more: I’m part of the furniture. “These days I’m just not quite Spanish enough. Thanks to today’s more enlightened approach to ethnic casting, he now jokes he can’t get cast as a Spanish waiter for love or money.
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Ironically its loss meant an ethnic casting free for all for most of Molina’s career: he used to joke that thanks to his southern European features he always “gave good foreign” (his parts include Diego Rivera in Frida (2002), Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway (2004) and an Afghan warlord in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot). “Telling Benicio del Toro he’d be better off known as Benjamin?” “Can you imagine doing that now?” he says.
Who knows, though, whether the second prophecy would have born fruit since Molina, the London born son of two immigrants (his mother was Italian) did indeed immediately drop the O. That dean has been proven wrong on the first count: Molina, now 69, has working steadily since his early 20s, although as a “chubby gangly kid” the villainous Doc Ock star of two Spider-Man movies always knew he was unlikely to ever be cast as a “beefcake”. I thought: hang on, my dad’s a Spanish waiter!” Otherwise you’ll play nothing but Spanish waiters.” Molina pauses for effect. Oh, and do drop the O from your first name. You are a character actor, not a leading man. “Now Alfredo, you must be prepared not to work until you are well into your 40s.
When Alfred Molina graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the age of 22, his dean had a couple of words of advice.
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