Cheech Marin draws on discrimination his WWII veteran dad felt for his role in movie 'The Long Game'
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Comedian, actor and activist Cheech Marin says he doesn’t let rules govern his life. But for his new role in “The Long Game,” an underdog sports movie about five Mexican American teens who win the Texas high school golf championship in 1957 despite the racism they faced at the time, Marin found inspiration in the rules that guided his father. “When my dad came back from World War II, the whole world was the Navy because he knew exactly what to do in that world,” Marin said in an interview with...

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