Meet Gotham City Mayor Nestor Carbonell

Nestor Carbonell (l.) and Gary Oldman in “The Dark Knight.” If, as John Leguizamo famously joked, there are not Latinos in “Star Trek” because America doesn’t plan to have Hispanics around for the future, at least there’s still Gotham City. In Batman’s latest installment, the record-breaking blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” Cuban-American actor Nestor Carbonell plays a very Latin Mayor Robert Garcia. “It’s such a great honor to be part of this cast and to play Gotham City’s Mayor,” said Carbonell, 40, who was born in New York City. “He’s a little tough, maybe cynical, and on occasion even arrogant,” says Carbonell of his gloomy character. “As an actor, that helped me to work on different facets.” Mayor Garcia, he adds, “is a man who was very idealistic and principled at the beginning of his career. But then he saw that things... [read full story]