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Prime Vio announced the official release date and livered a sneak peek of Gael García Bernal as a gay wrtler 'Cassandro.'

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

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The 44-year-old actor nonts that dualy om a new perspective “Cassandro, ” the performance name of real-life gay Lucha libre wrtler Saúl Armendáriz.

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Actor Gael García Bernal is set to play Cassandro (aka Saúl Armendáriz), the gay El Paso-born Mexin wrtler who worked as an exóti (a male wrtler who * gael garcia bernal gay *

As Cassandro, Garcia said, Armendáriz provid Mexi wh a amework for acceptance a society steeped homophobia. “Here was this proud, openly gay man and nobody saw as an issue.

Williams add that his film addrs what he views as a signifint gap portrayg gay liv.

“I don’t thk I’ve ever seen a gay sports movie.

GAEL GARCíA BERNAL IS SENSATNAL AS A GAY LUCHA LIBRE STAR ‘CASSANDRO’’

The gay person who seems to be most popular now is a serial killer, ” he said, referrg to Netflix’s recent Jefey Dahmer miseri. There are so many prsg stori about the challeng we have as a gay people.

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He feels no reprentatn qualms about stg García a gay role. I have a bisexual character, a homosexual, a trans character all si me a way, and I tapped to them to play different people. The Sundance Film Ftival selectn om Prime Vio marks the narrative feature but of acclaimed documentarian Roger Ross Williams and sts Gael García Bernal the tle role as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso who ris to ternatnal stardom after he creat the character Cassandro, aka the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.

I unrstand reprentatn, of urse, as a Black gay man, but I wanted the bt possible actor who uld brg this amazg character to life.

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Asked specifilly to rpond to the qutn of what type of actors should play what rol — whether gay, straight, relig or racially diverse, margalized, etc. It’s fascatg to see someone om the gay muny play a very, very straight character. 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 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. 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.

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Prime Vio announced the official release date and livered a sneak peek image of Gael García Bernal as a gay wrtler.

In the Roger Ross Williams-directed film Cassandro, Bernal plays Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amatr wrtler om El Paso who creat the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.

See Photos of Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer as Lovers New Rnchy Gay Romance. Profsnal wrtlg has always had a homoerotic subtext, and Mexi (where the “sport” is known as “lucha libre”), ’s been right on the surface thanks to exótis: wrtlers drag who serve as the queer-signalg foils for heroic straight wrtlers.

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