Freddie Prinze Jr Reveals The Biggest Reason He Signed On For 'Christmas With You'

Freddie Prinze Jr is opening up about his new movie, Christmas With You.

The 46-year-old actor stars as a dad to a superfan of popstar Angelina, who decides to grant her wish after feeling burnout in her career.

In a new interview, Freddie revealed that this part is actually a rare one for him – and the reason why has nothing to do with the project being a rom-com.

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Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment, Freddie revealed that his role was actually written as a Latino, and there was no making the character Latino after the fact at all.

Freddie is Latino on his father’s, Freddie Prinze Sr, side. Freddie Sr‘s mother was from Puerto Rico, and Freddie Jr is also fluent in Spanish.

“I’ve never gotten to do it before unless I wrote the damn thing,” he shared. “So when [director] Gabriela [Tagliavini] brought this to me, all I wanted was the opportunity to earn her respect.”

Freddie goes on, saying that “within the industry, I’ve always been met with a ton of resistance by directors wanting to check my Latino heritage and see just how much I know.”

“Every Latino you’ve seen me play was always an after-the-fact thing. The role would be named ‘Mike Smith’ and they’d say, ‘Oh, we hired Freddie, so we can show people how diverse we are,’” he added. “And all of a sudden his name is ‘Miguel Ramirez.’”

For him, that doesn’t count.

“This was something that was very important to me, and a big reason of why I signed onto this movie,” he concluded.

Christmas With You, also starring Aimee Garcia, is streaming now on Netflix.