{"id":90629,"date":"2022-08-07T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90629"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:42:34","slug":"franco-as-fidel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/08\/07\/franco-as-fidel\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco as Fidel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a film in the works about <strong>Alina Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, <strong>Fidel Castro<\/strong>\u2019s illegitimate daughter.&nbsp; <strong><em>Alina of Cuba<\/em><\/strong> will star <strong>Ana Villafa\u00f1e<\/strong>.&nbsp; And her famous dad will be played by <strong>James Franco <\/strong>\u2013 \u2018cause he\u2019s so versatile!&nbsp; Needless to say, the reaction was revolutionary.&nbsp; One of the people expressing outrage is <strong>John Leguizamo<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cI don\u2019t got a prob with Franco but he ain\u2019t Latino!\u201d&nbsp; The film\u2019s producer, <strong>John Martinez O\u2019Felan<\/strong>, shot back by revealing that Franco is actually Latin \u2013 by way of Portugal (I don\u2019t think that helped).&nbsp; Naturally, the real-life Alina is supporting the project.&nbsp; She points out, with justifiable pride, that \u201cthe project is almost entirely Latino, both in front and behind the camera\u201d.&nbsp; As to the casting, she states, \u201cJames Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with Fidel Casto, besides his skills and charisma.\u201d&nbsp; Leguizamo is unmoved.&nbsp; \u201cSo, no, no.&nbsp; Appropriating our stories \u2013 no more of that.&nbsp; I\u2019m done with that.\u201d&nbsp; Does this means that only a Cubano should play Castro?&nbsp; Could someone from another Latin background play the role?&nbsp; Do actors need to submit a headshot, a resume, and a <em>23AndMe <\/em>profile to casting agents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a film in the works about Alina Fern\u00e1ndez, Fidel Castro\u2019s illegitimate daughter.&nbsp; Alina of Cuba will star Ana Villafa\u00f1e.&nbsp; And her famous dad will be played by James Franco \u2013 \u2018cause he\u2019s so versatile!&nbsp; Needless to say, the reaction was revolutionary.&nbsp; One of the people expressing outrage is John Leguizamo.&nbsp; \u201cI don\u2019t got a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90630,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90629\/revisions\/90630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}