Benicio del Toro Got Angry During Interview about “Che” Movie

By Karina Fogler
19:25, January 28th 2009
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Benicio del Toro Got Angry During Interview about “Che” Movie

Steven Soderbergh's latest movie, “Che,” tells the story of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and stars Benicio del Toro as Che. In an interview with the Washington Times, del Toro burst into screaming saying that he started to feel uncomfortable.

The reporters asked him questions connected to the movie’s portrayal of the Cuban and Bolivian revolutions when del Toro started to shout that he was done and hoped for them to write whatever they wanted. “I don’t give a damn,” the Times quoted del Toro as saying.

After telling some bad words last week, the Oscar winner walked out of the restaurant in Washington. Che Guevara was the Cuban revolutionist who is still considered to be the most important figure to have spread rebellion all around Latin America.

The 4-hour biopic will certainly be regarded from different points of the view, as Che’s personality and figure are still considered. Ronald Radosh, a Hudson Institute adjunct fellow, told the Times that Che was very enthusiast about killing the counterrevolutionaries and that he was one of the "most Stalinist, pro-Soviet communists of the whole leadership."

The director of the movie still defended “Che” at the Toronto International Film Festival. He told reporters that many have asked him how could he have done a movie about a murderer and a terrorist.

The reason for which del Toro got nervous during the interview was that Che used to help in create forced labor camps in Cuba and the reporters described them as "concentration camps."

The movie was screened on May 21 at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and del Toro won the Best Actor Award. “Che” was released for one week on December 12, 2008 in New York City and Los Angeles as to be qualified for the Academy Awards.



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