AMERICA FERRERA - FERRERA'S BAD SPANISH COSTS HER MOVIE ROLE

FERRERA'S BAD SPANISH COSTS HER MOVIE ROLE

UGLY BETTY star AMERICA FERRERA missed out on a bigger role in new movie UNDER THE SAME MOON - because she couldn't speak Spanish. The Latina plays an English-speaking Mexican, smuggling kids into America, but her part could have been much more substantial. Director Patricia Riggen explains, "I wanted to cast her in a bigger role who was a friend of the mother in the film. "She was a big funny character, but she doesn't speak Spanish and it's really hard to do phonetically."