Actor and “Access Hollywood” host Mario Lopez has taken to social media to share that he code-switches for mainstream America, after trending on the X platform from people not believing that he is really Mexican.
Fans were surprised by his native accent, as they were accustomed to hearing him speak without it on television.
In the video, speaking with a Mexican accent, Lopez told his followers checking in for Taco Tuesday about his preference for shrimp tostadas with mayonnaise. He even praised the food truck’s shrimp cocktails, adding La Guacamaya hot sauce to his drink and food, exclaiming, “This is fire.”
Despite the videos showing him in his natural element, he addressed his accent on his TikTok.
Initially, the A-lister said he was “racking” his brain to figure out why, and once he read what people were saying he realized they were questioning his ethnicity.
“People don’t think I’m Mexican. Is that a trip … with a name like Mario Lopez?” he said, adding that people think that he is “everything from Italian to Hawaiian.”
“But I’m not; that’s the weirdest thing,” he added.
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The 50-year-old host shared that he was born in Chula Vista, a city that was originally part of the Mexican Empire in 1821. Two years later, it became a part of the First Mexican Republic before ultimately becoming an American city in 1848 when California was annexed into the United States following the Mexican–American War.
Lopez also noted he was first-generation American, as his parents are from the actual country of Mexico (Culiacán, Sinaloa, and Tijuana).
The “Saved by the Bell” star said he believes he knows why people are questioning his race now, and it has to do with seeing him in a light they have never seen him before.
“I have been doing these food videos on social with my homies and it’s a lot of Mexican food; I love to eat,” he said in the video, adding,…
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