For many Latino viewers, Danny Trejo's casting in Pawn Shop landed as more than another movie role. The Mexican American actor has spent decades playing characters that made him a familiar face in Hollywood, and the new film places him inside a story about an ICE officer, a detained immigrant, and a crowd accused of trying to free him. When the film was identified as a project from Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, some fans questioned what Trejo's participation said about his politics.
His son, Gilbert Trejo, says the story behind the casting is different from what the backlash assumes.
