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Del Toro: To Interpret Che Made Me Respect Him More

Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro affirmed here that after interpreting Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara increased his respect for him as historic figure and consistent man.

Havana--Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro affirmed here that after interpreting Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara increased his respect for him as historic figure and consistent man.

The first time I heard talk about Che I was 11 years old in a song of the Rolling Stones. After I interpreted him I learned a lot, he stressed in a press conference at the Taganana Hall of the Hotel Nacional, venue of the 30th New Latin America Film Festival.

Del Toro expressed his desire that the film contributes to promote Che´s personality in the United States. It is very important to keep widening mental horizons, he said.

I also believe that from the government of new president Barack Obama, a dialogue can be established between both countries.

The Oscar laureate for Traffic (2001) described as sensational to have premiered in Cuba the films where it all began. Our dream, he said, was to finísh and screen it here. Now the cycle has closed.

Answering a question of how would the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla would think today, he said maybe he would be a different person.

We are living moments unthinkable for his time, he said. He put the example of an indigenous president governing Bolivia now and an Afro-American the United States.

http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/culture/2008-12-08/del-toro-to-interpret-che-made-me-respect-him-more/