Gael García Bernal on Becoming Lucha Libre Star Cassandro, Kissing Bad Bunny and Producing ‘The Boys’ Mexico Spinoff
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Gael García Bernal is nursing a slight cold. He thinks he may have caught a bug during a flight to Los Angeles.
But he theorizes it could have also come from the Academy Museum Gala, held in the museum’s open-air atrium, which he attended two nights before I meet him for breakfast at Chateau Marmont. “Everyone was so cold there,” Bernal says, before cracking, “I don’t know if there have been any cases of pneumonia afterwards.
I had fun listening to all the speeches but it was difficult to enjoy because we were all super freezing and trying to stay warm.” I sit down with Bernal early Tuesday morning while he enjoys a cup of coffee and a plate of huevos rancheros because he is finally — post-actors strike — able to talk about “Cassandro,” his Amazon Prime Video film about lucha libre’s most celebrated exótico.
Bernal stars as the titular wrestler, who smashed the lavender ceiling of the sport in the 1990s by being openly gay. “It’s the only sport where there are openly gay athletes competing at the very high level,” Bernal says.
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