EXCLUSIVE: Roberta Colindrez will star opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in his Amazon movie about “The Liberace of Lucha Libre”, Cassandro.
Colindrez will play best friends with Bernal’s Saúl Armendáriz as she finds community in the Lucha Libre world training young fighters.
The pic, produced by Ted Hope and Todd Black, is shooting in Mexico City.Cassandro, directed by 2x Emmy nominated filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, tells the true story of Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rises to international stardom after he creates the “exotico” character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre,” and in the process upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
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