Though Roma has been nominated for a whopping 10 Oscars this year, one of its stars may not be able to attend the ceremony. Jorge Antonio Guerrero, the Mexican actor who plays the karate-loving Fermín, has apparently been denied entry to the U.S. three times as he has attempted to participate in events as a representative of the Alfonso Cuarón film. The denials are now affecting the possibility of his attendance at this year’s Academy Awards.

According to an interview with Quién, Guerrero was first denied at the beginning of 2018. His second attempt was in the winter, once red carpet events for the film began (Roma was released November 21). Guerrero said he went to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico with a letter written by one of the film’s producers, expressing explicitly that he would be expected to attend events like the Golden Globes and the Oscars, but was denied again. He remains hopeful that he will be approved before the Oscars take place on February 24. Representatives for the film have not yet responded to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.

This isn’t the first time an actor from another country has struggled to attend the Oscars because of visa issues (due in part to underlying political turmoil). In 2017, Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries meant that two people involved in the British documentary The White Helmets, nominated for best documentary short, couldn’t attend the ceremony; Raed Saleh, the head of the White Helmets, and Khaled Khateeb, the cinematographer for the film, were both unable to go because they are Syrian, and that country was on Trump’s list. The film ultimately won the Oscar that year, and the duo were represented at the podium by director Orlando von Einsiedel and producer Joanna Natasegara, with von Einsiedel reading a short statement from Saleh.

The ban also had an impact on Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi. The Iranian filmmaker was nominated for his drama The Salesman that year, but announced that he would be protesting the ceremony even if he were granted entry to the U.S. on a special basis, because Iran was also on the banned list. “I hereby express my condemnation of the unjust conditions forced upon some of my compatriots and the citizens of the other six countries trying to legally enter the United States of America and hope that the current situation will not give rise to further divide between nations,” he wrote in a statement. Salesman actress Taraneh Alidoosti followed suit, writing on Twitter that “Trump’s visa ban for Iranians is racist.”

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