Vin Diesel got his big break when Steven Spielberg cast him in Saving Private Ryan. Since then he's become quite a big action star. Multi-Facial is a short film that Diesel wrote, directed and starred in. The short tells his own real-life story about the problems he faced landing roles due to his ambiguous ethnicity. Apparently he wasn't black enough to play black, white enough to play white, and couldn't speak spanish so he couldn't play a Latino.
The film was shot in 3 days on a budget of $3,000 dollars and generated some buzz at the Cannes Film Festival. It got the attention of Spielberg who contacted Diesel and cast him in Saving Privte Ryan. I guess it turned out to be the best $3,000 he ever spent!
Watch it below, and let us know what you think of the short film that launched Diesel's career.