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‘Father of the Bride’ Star Diego Boneta Recalls Taking Guitar Lessons With Tom Cruise

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDiego Boneta was 15 years old when he was close to starring in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.” “They did the audition in Mexico City,” the “Father of the Bride” actor tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “They flew me to L.A.

to test. It was my first feature film audition and my first audition period! … It was between me and Ben Barnes.”Barnes landed the role, but the experience inspired the Mexico City-raised Boneta to move to Los Angeles to pursue a Hollywood career: “I was trying to get auditions for Mexican films for years, and they would not see me because they’re like, ‘No, you don’t look Mexican enough.’” Boneta first made a splash in 2012 starring opposite Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Julianne Hough in director Adam Shankman’s musical romance “Rock of Ages.” “Tom took me under his wing,” he recalls. “We did guitar lessons together … so we did jamming sessions together.

In those sessions, it was a lot of Tom talking about working with Paul Newman and with Dustin Hoffman and what he learned from them.”Boneta went on to appear in “Scream Queens” and “Terminator: Dark Fate” and in the titular role in Telemundo’s “Luis Miguel: The Series.” His production company Three Amigos signed an overall deal with Prime Video in April.Boneta also hopes to make it on Broadway.

He almost starred in a revival of “Evita” about three years ago, but his schedule didn’t allow for it. “That’s on my bucket list for sure,” he says. “What Hugh Jackman does — how he goes back and forth — that’s my dream.”“Father of the Bride” has been a huge hit for HBO Max. Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan star as a couple on the verge of divorce whose attorney.

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