James Franco to play Fidel Castro in feature film – with the blessing of his anti-communist son

Actor James Franco will play the Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro in the film of the same name about the life of his political dissident daughter. Alina de Cubaentertainment magazine Term It was reported on Thursday.

The film, which is about the Cuban exile and Castro’s daughter Alina Fernandez, will reportedly be directed by Miguel Bardem, the cousin of actor Javier Bardem and the son of director and leading communist Juan Antonio Bardem. scenario, according to TermIt will be written by revisionist screenwriter José Rivera. motorcycle diary About Castro’s henchman and mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Despite this, creative producer John Martinez O’Phelan apparently told Deadline that Fernandez was partially involved in the production and needed his approval before signing an actor to play his criminal father.

“Finding and convincing James Franco to play Castro was a fun and challenging process and a collaborative effort across the entire universe,” says O’Phelan, “because our director’s main task was to find an actor to play him to build on, and also Alina. A close physical resemblance to the real Castro to find someone Fernandez will fully support.”

O’Phelan explained that searching for someone with a similar background to Fidel Castro’s “ancient Galician coats of arms” led them to Franco, who was partly of Portuguese descent. Galicia is a region of Spain that borders Portugal to the north.

“James certainly had the closest facial resemblance to the best actors in our industry,” O’Phelan says, “which means the focus is on his character’s accent and we’re going to have a great on-screen match to engage the audience.” and bring the story to life with true visual integrity.”

Franco’s legacy has been a source of minor controversy among leftists, who see him as “Hispanic” enough to play Fidel Castro, the son of wealthy white plantation owners. Others complained that Franco faced allegations of sexual harassment; that doesn’t make him unsuitable for the role of Jeffrey Epstein, who has seven to 11 known children and is allegedly friends with a sex trafficker.

Fidel Castro was one of the most repressive leaders in modern history, ruling Cuba with an iron fist from 1959 until 2016, when the Communist Party announced his death. According to recent estimates, nearly a decade before his death, Castro’s personal net worth was around $900 million as a result of plundering a country that was the richest country in Latin America before he came to power. Fidel Castro never won an election in his life and took power in January 1959 after then leader Fulgencio Batista left the country.

Castro was the son of a wealthy white Spanish-born planter who lived in eastern Santiago de Cuba, traditionally one of the poorest areas in the country, about 475 miles from Havana. When he came to power, he secured the power of the Castro family and the white communist elite, and after his death left his brother and executioner Raúl in power. Castro’s various children, relatives and grandchildren now hold the highest positions in the country; their children reveal their luxurious lives on social media.

Alina Cuba It tells the story of Fernandez, one of Castro’s many illegitimate children, who decides to publicly oppose his dictatorial father and eventually leaves the country to join a large community of Cuban exiles. Castro was there when Fernandez was young as a political leader, and learned at the age of ten that this was his father.

Fernandez was arrested several times in Cuba for trying to escape before moving to Spain in 1993. While in exile, Fernandez became a prominent political critic of the regime and became known to his descendants in exile. “I will not forgive him,” said Fernandez, describing his relationship with the dictator in an interview in 2006.

“I am one of many Cuban women forced to live in exile because of what Fidel Castro did to our country,” she said. “He must pay his debts to history”

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