# Ricardo Montalban miscast in ST2:TWOK

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**Tags:** movies, star-trek-paramount\
**Created:** [August 19, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ricardo-montalban-miscast-in-st2-twok/1005911 "2024-08-19T18:40:00Z")\
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Looking at imdb, and guessing on some of his roles, I think Michael Ansara has played every ethnicity except his own (Syrian) - various Mexican and Hispanic, Native American, Egyptian, Sikh, Chinese, Babylonian, Hawaiian, Samoan, Albanian, Italian, generic Arabian, plus generic Caucasian. And, of course, Klingon (boney and non-boney)…

And as for the casting of Montalban, "All Sikhs are Sings, but not all Sings are played by turban wearing Sikhs.”

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