True life tales are at all times good fodder for motion pictures, and ‘Cassandro’ has an excellent, inspiring one to inform. Gael García Bernal, most lately seen in Marvel’s Disney+ Halloween particular ‘Werewolf by Night’, is starring as wrestler Saúl Armendáriz, and a primary look picture is on-line.
Though scripted, the brand new film comes from Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, who wrote the script with David Teague and Julián Herbert. Williams and Teague beforehand labored collectively on their award-scoring ‘Life, Animated’, a few household who makes use of Disney animated motion pictures to achieve their withdrawn autistic son.
Though Armendáriz’ title may not be that well-known outdoors of wrestling circles, his is a captivating story.
An American-born luchador wrestler who grew up close to the U.S.–Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, he was a younger man with goals of competing on the highest ranges in wrestling. Armendáriz moved to Mexico and started coaching in one of many sport’s hotspots, Ciudad Juarez.
But whereas some thought his homosexuality can be a hindrance in such a machismo-driven business, he quickly rose to the highest of the Mexican wrestling world by embracing a flamboyantly homosexual persona generally known as “Cassandro.” The character––who turned generally known as “the Liberace of Lucha Libre”––proved to be an enormous hit with wrestling followers, and he ultimately turned the primary foreign-born wrestler to win a world title.
Cassandro is considered an LGBT icon and a legend in the arena of wrestling, so this is an important role for Bernal to get right. But he certainly seems to strike the right note and look in the initial image.
‘Cassandro’ also stars Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo. The movie has yet to confirm a release date, but it’ll debut on Prime Video next year.
And 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for cine-wrestlers, as ‘The Nest’ and ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ director Sean Durkin is working on a new movie about the sport called ‘The Iron Claw’.
That drama has Zac Efron and ‘The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White bulking up to play part of the legendary Von Erichs wrestling dynasty. It’s also without a release date from A24 just yet but should be out at some point in the new year.
Cassandro
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom after he creates the “exotico” character Cassandro,… Read the Plot