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...young actor playing the young actor in Pedro Almodóvar's new film also has a myriad of faces to wear--a transvestite chanteuse, the wreck of an abused child, a caring brother, a furtive lover capable of murder. But that's no great stretch for Gael García Bernal. The budding Mexican star has convinced audiences he can be a dog-loving street punk (Amores Perros), a priest tortured by love (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), a randy teenager on a spree (Y Tu Mamá También). In The Motorcycle Diaries, which just opened, he incarnates the young Ernesto...
...GAEL GARCIA BERNAL IN THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES AND BAD EDUCATION This hunky, soulful Mexican could be his own toughest competitor. We'd pick his virtuoso turn in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education over his more conventional role as the young Che Guevara...
...Foxx is perfectly cast as the singer overcoming blindness and addiction on his way to becoming an icon. Colin Farrell too seems freakishly right--with the possible exception of the hair--as the charismatic, ambitious Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander. The Motorcycle Diaries features Gael Garcia Bernal as a carefree Guevara vrooming around South America on his hog, looking for fun but discovering the beginnings of his revolutionary destiny. Too political? Try Finding Neverland--Johnny Depp doing a loose interpretation of J.M. Barrie, exploring both the realities and the fantasies that conditioned his creation of Peter...
...developing the screenplay, which was first written in English and then translated into the colloquial Spanish of the 1950s. The money from the deal went into the Che Guevara Center of Studies in Havana, from where March oversees all things Che. Mexican golden boy Gael García Bernal was Salles' first and only choice to play Guevara. "Could it be anybody else?" he asks. "Gael is the most visceral, talented and mature actor of his generation." Others have played the revolutionary onscreen: Omar Sharif in a much-reviled 1969 biopic; Antonio Banderas alongside Madonna...
...Motorcycle Diaries, the first of two movies about Ernesto (Che) Guevara (starring Gael Garcia Bernal, below), opens in the U.S. next month; the second, Che (with Benicio del Toro), will follow next year. They have sparked another batch of commercial tributes to the icon of '60s rebellion...