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“Boycott! This F’d up! Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong! I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!” “How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well? No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers!” the Colombian American actor wrote. “In executing a close search into our hopefuls through the eye of Spanish and Portuguese genealogy which the Galicians held, we found that James, by far, had the closest facial likeness of our industry’s leading actors, meaning that the focus would be to build out his character accent and we’d have a stunning on-screen match to intrigue audiences and bring the story to life with true visual integrity.”įolks online had much to say about Franco’s new role with actor John Leguizamo expressing his disbelief and frustration with the casting Friday morning on Instagram. Movies James Franco will pay $2.2 million to settle suit alleging sexual exploitation, fraudĪ court still has to OK the proposed $2,235,000 settlement in a class-action suit filed against James Franco and others by two former acting students. 'e used Fidel Castro’s ancient Galician heraldry as our focal compass, and then combed through the entire ranks of actors with Latin roots in Hollywood to find someone who has a similar facial structure,” the producer said in the statement. Martinez O’Felan also talked about the decision to go with Franco despite his lack of a Latino background. “Finding and convincing James Franco to play Castro was a fun and challenging process and has been the collaborative work of the universe, because our director’s original order was to find an actor who holds a close physical resemblance to the real Castro to build from, along with finding someone Alina Fernandez would strongly endorse.” John Martinez O’Felan, one of the “Alina of Cuba” producers, shed light on the casting decision in a recent statement to Deadline.

“I guess it just comes down to my criteria, was like, ‘If this is consensual, I think it’s cool. that’s probably not a cool thing,” Franco said. James Franco addressed the sexual misconduct allegations against him in a new interview, four years after the L.A. Four of the women were his students at the film school he founded and the fifth referred to him as a “mentor.”Įntertainment & Arts After sexual misconduct allegations, James Franco admits he ‘did sleep with students’ In 2018, five women accused Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior. His casting as Castro was controversial due to the actor’s sexual misconduct allegations and the fact that Franco is not of Cuban or Latino descent. The roles are a comeback of sorts for the actor, who has not appeared onscreen since 2019. The casting comes a month after Franco got a role in Bille August’s upcoming post-World War II film “Me, You,” his first public role announcement since a proposed settlement of $2.2 million was reached between Franco and two of his former students to settle sexual exploitation and fraud claims in 2021.Ĭurrently, neither film has a release date.

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On Thursday, Deadline reported that Franco would play the highly controversial figure in Miguel Bardem’s film “Alina of Cuba.” The movie will center around the life of Alina Fernandez (Ana Villafañe), who was Castro’s daughter with Cuban socialite Natalia “Naty” Revuelta (Mía Maestro) and a detractor of her father’s governing. James Franco has been cast as many things in recent years offscreen, but now the Golden Globe winner is stepping into the role of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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