Gael García Bernal Interview on Playg Gay Wrtler ‘Cassandro’ – IndieWire

Contents:

• GAEL GARCíA BERNAL CHAS STARDOM AS A GAY WRTLER ‘CASSANDRO’ FIRST LOOK
• THE GAY WRTLERS OF MEXI
• MEETG CASSANDRO: MEXI'S MOST INIC GAY WRTLER
• THE STORY OF CASSANDRO, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEXIN WRTLER WHO TRIED TO END HIS LIFE
• GAY WRTLERS
• GAEL GARCíA BERNAL ON PLAYG ‘CASSANDRO,’ THE GAY WRTLER ADORED BY MEXI’S MACHO MEN

GAEL GARCíA BERNAL CHAS STARDOM AS A GAY WRTLER ‘CASSANDRO’ FIRST LOOK

But while some thought his homosexualy would be a hdrance such a machismo-driven dtry, he soon rose to the top of the Mexin wrtlg world by embracg a flamboyantly gay persona known as “Cassandro.

THE GAY WRTLERS OF MEXI

The official synopsis for “Cassandro” reads: “Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso, ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the ‘exoti’ character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre. And are set to wrtle at No Peace Unrground’s Fear The Gay Agenda event on June 11. There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said.

Gael Garcia Bernal looks fabuloso as first image om the upg feature film Cassandro, which tells the story of gay Mexin-Amerin profsnal wrtler Sl Armendariz, was jt released, lettg see what Bernal will look like the tular role. When he was young, he beme fascated wh luchador wrtlg and had dreams of petg at the hight he entered the wrtlg world, the gay Armendariz me up wh the flamboyant and effemate persona Cassandro, the "Liberace of Lucha Libre, " and he took the machismo-driven world of wrtlg by surprise, beg one of the most popular Mexin wrtlers and the first foreign-born wrtler to w a world tle.

\n\nSa\u00fal, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso, ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the character Cassandro.

MEETG CASSANDRO: MEXI'S MOST INIC GAY WRTLER

They weren’t really gay, unls they were the closet. I’m gay, that’s .

Neher si of the bridge was a great place to grow up gay. Homophobia is everywhere. Yeah, we are gay, but we do know how to wrtle.

THE STORY OF CASSANDRO, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MEXIN WRTLER WHO TRIED TO END HIS LIFE

“The Big Gay Gladiator” challenged for the WAW European, People’s, Brish Heavyweight and World Heavyweight tl multiple tim his qut to hold WAW gold for the first time nearly two years. Most workg today are gay members of an often ostracized mory for whom lucha libre is a statement of pri, or at least a mpy, unrtraed extensn of self. The old-time exótis had been straight men harpg on tired gay clichés.

A new generatn of openly gay wrtlers reveled the exóti’s sexualy, yly tweakg stereotyp to nont the dience wh the ia that beg gay uld be somethg more than a stage joke. Today, gay marriage is legal Mexi Cy, but the overwhelmgly Catholic untry still has one of Lat Ameri’s hight rat of antigay hate crim, and sual homophobia is eply graed.

Meetg Cassandro: Mexi's most inic gay wrtler | Dazed⬅️ Left Arrow*️⃣ Asterisk␠StarOptn Slirs✉️ MailExSl Armendáriz as CassandroThe cross-drsg exóti – also known as Sl Armendáriz – overme dg addictn, homophobia and a suici attempt to bee Lucha Libre’s first openly gay world tle wner.

GAY WRTLERS

For 40 years, exótis were figur of shame, openly abed by the dience, and their homosexualy was always prumed to be an act. An openly gay wrtler, he turned this narrative around by beg the first exóti to w a world tle 1992.

Or you n also say three gays and three straights bee I have two sisters that are lbian. “I had to really show people not to label as jt gays, but to rpect , to look at why we’re the rg: bee we are talented” — Sl Armendáriz. Sl Armendáriz: I have always been Catholic, but when I was a kid everybody told me I uldn’t be gay or I uldn’t drs like that bee I would burn hell.

GAEL GARCíA BERNAL ON PLAYG ‘CASSANDRO,’ THE GAY WRTLER ADORED BY MEXI’S MACHO MEN

But I knew that I was a prec child of God and that beg gay was a gift om God to me. How long did take for the dience’s attus towards you as a gay wrtler to change? I had to really show people not to label as jt gays, but to rpect , to look at why we’re the rg: bee we are talented.

For nearly a century, exótis have been the clowns of Mexin wrtlg: silly, queer-d characters flamboyant drag who pranced about the rg for the amement of homophobic crowds. Until Cassandro, an openly gay fighter whose outsized personaly and atypil succs feel ready-ma for the movi.