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During a Washington Times interview about Steven Soderbergh’s new movie “Che,” in which he portrays Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, actor Benicio Del Toro stormed out, leaving the interviewer baffled.
The Times quoted the actor saying he was getting uncomfortable when asked about the production’s depiction of the Bolivian and Cuban revolutions, adding that he was done with the interview and he did not care what they were going to further write.
Afterwards, Del Toro walked out of the D.C. restaurant where the interview took place the previous week.
The movie itself has prompted some controversial reactions and has given rise to many a heated debate, for its portrayal of Che Guevara as a revolutionary who pushed for armed rebellion through Latin America.
Moreover, the movie has come into much criticism because it focuses more on Guevara’s good side and deliberately ignores all the harm he did and his views on capital punishment.
Ronald Radosh, a Hudson Institute adjunct fellow, stated for the Times that Che Guevara took pleasure in killing counterrevolutionaries and that he was one of the most Stalinist, pro-Soviet communists of the entire leadership.
The magazine also reported that director Soderbergh had stood by his production at the Toronto International Film Festival.
At that time, he told reporters that he did not judge his characters and that he always supported everyone who appeared on screen.
Benicio Del Toro stormed out of the interview when the interviewer described Cuba's forced labor camps that Guevara helped put up as concentration camps.
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