Louis C.K. Talks 'Mexican Past' in Upcoming Rolling Stone Cover Story Peter Finocchiaro - The Huffington Post
go to original April 13, 2013

Louis CK, talking about an experience in Arizona, with a precious ignorant woman who had no idea that he is mexican. (Bopagilk)

Louis C.K. tells Rolling Stone about his surprisingly complex racial identity in an upcoming cover story. (Rolling Stone)

Believe it or not, Louis C.K. is a Mexican immigrant.

The award-winning comedian - who was born in the U.S., but lived in Mexico for several years as a child - is the subject of an upcoming Rolling Stone cover story, in which he talks candidly about his surprisingly complex racial identity.

Coming here and observing America as an outsider made me an observing person. I grew up in Boston and didn't get the accent, and one of the reasons is that I started in Spanish. I was a little kid, so all I had to do was completely reject my Spanish and my Mexican past, which is a whole lot easier because I'm white with red hair. I had the help of a whole nation of people just accepting that I'm white.

C.K. has retained his Mexican citizenship. His father was born in the country to Hungarian and Mexican parents.

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