History YMMV / TouchOfEvil

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/CharltonHeston playing a Mexican. Though this attitude is highly anachronistic. At the time, it was intended as a genre movie and not a serious docudrama about American-Mexican relations and furthermore, the notion of actors affecting accents for their roles was rare and not at all expected by audiences of the 50s (take ''Film/VivaZapata'' an A-Movie by Creator/EliaKazan with Creator/MarlonBrando as the iconic revolutionary sporting no accent at all, and Brando was a [[MethodActing method actor]] at that unlike the cast of Welles' films[[note]]Accents were generally only used for comedy purposes in the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood often to invoke FunnyForeigners as in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' with Creator/DickVanDyke's fake-Cockney accent[[/note]]) especially the genre movie audiences for whom the film was targeted. Also, Heston's character was originally supposed to be white, but Welles changed his nationality to Mexican, so Heston wasn't cast to play a Mexican, but the changes to the screenplay required a race change.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/CharltonHeston playing a Mexican. Though this attitude is highly anachronistic. At the time, it was intended as a genre movie and not a serious docudrama about American-Mexican relations and furthermore, the notion of actors affecting accents for their roles was rare and not at all expected by audiences of the 50s (take ''Film/VivaZapata'' an A-Movie by Creator/EliaKazan with Creator/MarlonBrando as the iconic revolutionary sporting no accent at all, and Brando was a [[MethodActing method actor]] at that unlike the cast of Welles' films[[note]]Accents were generally only used for comedy purposes in the GoldenAge often to invoke FunnyForeigners as in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' with Creator/DickVanDyke's fake-Cockney accent[[/note]]) especially the genre movie audiences for whom the film was targeted. Also, Heston's character was originally supposed to be white, but Welles changed his nationality to Mexican, so Heston wasn't cast to play a Mexican, but the changes to the screenplay required a race change.

** Creator/CharltonHeston wasn't ''cast'' to play a Mexican, he had ''already'' been cast and Creator/OrsonWelles made the decision to make his character Mexican (in the original novel, his character is white and his love interest, Creator/JanetLeigh's character, is Mexican). Eddie Muller from ''Noir Alley'' on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies even points this out in his commentary: "Although it would be perfection to have Creator/RicardoMontalban in the role of Vargas, that was never going to happen -- no Heston, no film."