Commentary: Dear Hollywood, if you’re gonna whitewash the Fidel Castro biopic, just go all the way
In Hollywood, truth is stranger than fiction. On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina of Cuba,” a biopic inspired by the life of his estranged daughter, Alina Fernández. On Friday, after the casting of a white U.S. actor in the role of a prominent Latin American political figure ...
In Hollywood, truth is stranger than fiction.
On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina of Cuba,” a biopic inspired by the life of his estranged daughter, Alina Fernández.
On Friday, after the casting of a white U.S. actor in the role of a prominent Latin American political figure had drawn widespread condemnation online (including some very pointed criticism from actor John Leguizamo), one of the film’s producers came forth with an explanation.
"[W]e used Fidel Castro’s ancient Galician heraldry as our focal compass, and then combed through the entire ranks of actors with Latin roots in Hollywood to find someone who
