EXCLUSIVE: Fidel Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernández, has emphasized to Deadline her endorsement of James Franco playing her Cuban leader revolutionary father in the upcoming independent featu…
She is also proud that “the project is almost entirely Latino, both in front and behind the camera.”
“James Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with Fidel Castro, besides his skills and charisma,” said Fernández about theAlina of Cubathat Franco would play Castro, Villafañe as Fernández and Mía Maestro as her mother Natalia “Naty” Revuelta, the Cuban-born socialite who El Comandante has a passionate love affair with.
In the movie, Revuelta sacrificed her and her physician husband’s personal belongings and finances to help fund the start of the Communist revolution. Fernández learned that she was Fidel Castro’s daughter at the age of 10 when after years of secret visits to her home, her mother finally revealed that “El Comandante” was her biological father.
“The rest of the cast is going to be a wonderful surprise for all audiences,” continued Fernández who’ll be a biographical and historical consultant on“The filmmakers worked a lot and I can’t be more grateful to them for their overall inclusive selection”. “To me, the most important thing about this movie is that the conversation about Cuba is alive,” Fernández asserted, “Personally, the experience is so far too unexpected but more than anything, humbling.”
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