Jorge From Meet The Fockers Doesn't Look Like This Anymore

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Ray Santiago's turn as Jorge Villalobos was regarded by many as a breakthrough comedic part, but it took the Bronx native over a decade after Meet The Fockers to truly make his mark in the entertainment industry. Although the performer continued to find work he was relegated to small roles, and told SyFy Wire that he became typecast as Latino thugs.

One day the actor completely revolutionized his look when he put his hair up in a bun before going to a yoga class. Soon after, Santiago decided to wear his curly hair straight up and to grow out his facial hair. "The stache is real and my eyebrows are so thick I basically have three mustaches on my face," he told the Huffington Post in 2017. "My friends all joke and say that my look is like a modern Puerto Rican Kramer [from Seinfeld] meets Prince."

This somewhat goofy, and innocent, look helped Santiago nab the role of Pablo Bolivar in the series Ash vs Evil opposite Bruce Campbell's iconic Ash character. The wild curly hair and thick eyebrows became such a trademark look for Santiago's Pablo that, in 2018, he joked with Den Of Geek about creating hair-specific merchandising. "I think I need anything from like a Chia pet ... and troll dolls with real hair, like a Mr. Potato Head," Santiago joked. The actor went on to appear in all 30 episodes of the series that aired from 2015 to 2018. 

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