Martin Sheen has been a proud Latino for most of his long and very productive professional life; his son Emilio Estevez has always used their original family name, and has built a respectable reputation of his own as an actor, writer, producer and director. He’s also the father of bad-boy Charlie Sheen, whose acknowledged contacts to his Latino heritage. Sheen himself has spent most of his time playing Anglo roles, from Viet Nam in Apocalypse Now to the President of the United States on The West Wing. He’ll even play the Anglo icon Uncle Ben in the upcoming reboot of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Now, with the return of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? at 8P on Friday, February 3, Sheen will actually get the chance to trace his ancestry in detail, and we get to go along for the ride. You can catch a glimpse of that with a visit to the NBC Website about the show right here, and see a pretty cool slide-show biography of Sheen right here. If you missed it, it’s available for viewing free of charge, any time you want, at Hulu.com. Check the listings for Friday, Feb. 3.
Sheen and his son Estevez also took a small piece of their family history and built a movie (and a road trip) about it in The Way. We talked about it here on Se Fija! in the past, and the DVD of this movie will be available very soon, on Feb. 21. (You can pre-order it from amazon.com right here.)
