Gael Garcia Bernal in Kusturica's Pancho Villa?
Hello, everybody.
I guess some of you might have heard that Serbian director Emir Kusturica is preparing a surreal bio about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. Preparings started in January 2010 at it is announced to start shooting in Ferbruary 2011.
However, it is only known that Salma Hayek is definitely in. Kusturica considered Spanish actor Javier Bardem for the role of general Villa, but then he asked Johnny Depp, who agreed with enthusiasm. But, two months ago he said that he feels uncomfortable with the idea of playing revolutionary hero for not being hispanic, and declared that he havent spoke with Emir about that project for a while and he doesn't know what is going on. Now, at Kusturica's Kustendorf film festival where Gael Garcia Bernal is special guest we heard some unverified rumours that Emir considers this Mexican actor, alingside with Benisio del Toro and yet again Javier Bardem for his film, but the roles remained unknown. Is Depp in or out? Will one of these three actors take part in the project, or all of them? Kusturica said a few months ago that he would like to hire Serbian actor Miki Manojlovic for one important role, but he is never mentioned again. Man, I think it would be good to get some clear info about this, the shootong is sceduled to start next month, and we still don't know almost anything about it.