Benicio Del Toro: beyond useful idiot

Digital Spy: Benicio Del Toro has revealed that he discussed playing che guevara in an upcoming biopic with Fidel Castro,. Del Toro, who won the best actor prize at Cannes for his role in Steven Soderbergh's Che, met the former president of Cuba briefly to talk about his friendship with revolutionary Guevara. He said: "I met [Fidel Castro] for five minutes and he knew about the project, he knew about the work we were doing. And he said to me that he was very happy that we had spent so much time researching the subject. "I would like for him to see it. I would take his comments. No-one probably knew Che better than he did." I want to see the day when that Oscar Statue has the same standing in Hollywood as Nazi war memorabilia. Posted by Ziva at July 3, 2008 12:56 AM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:... [read full story]