Hollywood rejects the casting of James Franco as Fidel Castro due to his “lack of Hispanic heritage”.

Hollywood expressed her disagreement with the choice of James Franco for the role of Fidel Castro in the film by the Spaniard Miguel Bardem. This situation caused great controversy due to his lack of Latin ancestry.

“How can this still be happening?” Colombian John Leguizamo asked in an Instagram post in which he criticized the “appropriation” that he says suggests the Anglo-Saxon actor is playing a Latin American leader.

Although Leguizamo insisted that “he has no problem with Frank”, he didn’t hesitate to call the film a “boycott” because “he’s not Hispanic” and “Hollywood steals its community’s narratives.

“It ***. In addition, it is difficult to tell this story without exaggerating it, which would be wrong,” he added.

Salvadoran Ana Navarro-Cardenas, host of the program Viewone of the most popular on American television, went even further by criticizing the character’s mere inclusion Fidel Castro in film

“I want to think that no Latin American would want to play and glorify a bloodthirsty dictator who terrorized Cuba for six decades,” he said.

For his part, Jeff Torres, also of Hispanic origin, pointed to the lack of opportunities for actors like him in the industry: “I do tests for every other Latin American drug dealer and James Franco seriously going to do Fidel Castro”.

Producer Explains Why They Signed James Franco

Anticipating controversy, John Martinez O’Phelan, the film’s producer, explained in a press release announcing the signing that they chose Franco because of all the actors interested in the role, he was the one with “the closest facial resemblance” .

“We use Galician origin Fidel Castro like our compass,” said the producer. Franco, who was born in the US in 1978, is of Jewish, Swedish and Portuguese descent. However, the controversy did not remain in the ancestors of the actor, whose career began to decline after a series of sexual harassment. scandals and complaints of abuse by several women, including one filed in 2019 by a group of students in her acting classes.

The demand was joined by more students, who pointed out that the actor had recreated “simulations of sexual acts far beyond industry standards,” recorded some women in his rehearsals, and offered young women jobs in Hollywood projects that never materialized.

For this reason, Franco signed an agreement with the victims in which he paid $2.3 million to be distributed among the victims. The film, produced independently, will be called “Alina from Cuba”, in which actress Ana Villafagnier will play the daughter of the leader Cuban Revolutionand with Mia Maestro as Natalia Revuelta, her mother.

The script follows Alina Fernandez’s youth as Castro’s illegitimate daughter and her subsequent exile to Spain as an opponent of the Cuban regime. According to the magazine DiversityFernandez herself, also the film’s producer, chose Franco to play her father.

(As reported by EFE)

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