JohnLeguizamo is against the casting of JamesFranco as Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in new biopic
“Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde” is being directed by Miguel Bardem with a script from Oscar-nominated screenwriter José Rivera and Pulitzer winner Nilo Cruz.
“No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F’d up!” continued Leguizamo. “Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong! I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!” Franco is of Portuguese and Swedish descent on his father’s side, and Russian Jewish descent on his mother’s side.Ana Villafañe will play Fernández in the film, with Mía Maestro cast in the role of Natalia “Naty” Revuelta, her mother whom Castro had an affair with.
Deadline reports the film “follows the true-life story of Cuban exile turned social advocate, Fernández, whose birth was the result of the tryst between Revuelta and Castro”.This isn’t the first time Leguizamo has been outspoken on the issue of white actors dominating casts of films. In September, he“But too bad they went all white! No Latinx in the leads! Groundbreaking color-blind casting in original!” he wrote at the time.
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