Luis Guzmán: Latino Trump Voters Are ‘Ignorant’

Luis Guzmán has spent decades in the Hollywood trenches.

The veteran actor pings from comedy to serious drama, a versatility that suits his latest role on Netflix’s “Wednesday.”

Guzmán plays family patriarch Gomez Addams on the show, now in its second season. The series focuses on the clan’s dark cloud of a daughter, played by Jenna Ortega, but allows for the iconic family to be part of her journey.

The star isn’t known for his political opinions a la Mark Ruffalo, Sean Penn or Cynthia Nixon. He still weighed in on President Donald Trump during a recent interview on the “Gracias, Come Again” iHeartRadio podcast.

Host Honey German nudged the actor on celebrity activism as part of the conversation. That allowed the “Carlito’s Way” alum to mock Cancel Culture as a self-imposed mantra.

It’s not, or at least it wasn’t for far too many people in recent years. Comedians self-censored during the woke era for fear of career repercussions. Others said what they thought they had to say to stay employed.

Still, Guzmán supports the freedom to speak your mind, which is a noble cause. He used that candor to attack his fellow Latinos on the political front.

He referenced a previous interview where he was asked why so many Latino men voted for, as Guzmán called the current U.S. President, “What’s his face,” during the 2024 presidential election.

And it wasn’t just men in that demographic group. From Axios:

President Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2024 than previously believed and came within striking distance of capturing a historic majority of those voters, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of the election results.

Why?

“Because they ignorant. Because they did not look at, maybe I could represent my daughter and vote for a woman. It’s like that whole machismo thing still exists,” Guzman told her.

“I take pride in who I am … I love being outspoken when it comes to our community,” he continued, expressing the need for “better role models in our community.”

“Not only the men but the women to stand up for who we are … let’s have each other’s backs,” he added before burnishing his free speech bona fides. “If telling the truth is a risk, that’s a risk I’m willing to take.”

He later pushed for the U.S. government to provide free college and health care, saying the countries that provide such services aren’t hurt, fiscally speaking.