This (joy) comes in with an added salt of misbehavior and imagination.” Becoming Cassandro “It inspired me, but I hope it inspires everyone - not just the LGBTQ+ community - but everyone.”Īt the event, Bernal said he hoped movie audiences would take “what Cassandro gave to lucha libre, which is a face of joy. “It was really important to tell an uplifting story about finding your true self, your true purpose, and finding your community in the world,” Williams said at a post-screening Q&A featured on the Sundance Institute website. The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
It features cameos by Mexican lucha superstars Gigantico, El Mysterioso and El Hijo del Santo. That comes as buzz around the movie builds, by Tuesday earning a 96% rating on the movie website Rotten Tomatoes with 45 reviews.Ĭo-written and directed by Oscar and Emmy winner Roger Ross Williams, “Cassandro” stars Gael García Bernal, whose films include “Amores Perros,” “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Bad Education.” The movie also stars Perla de la Rosa, Joaquin Cosio and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – best known as Bad Bunny. The events consulting and public relations firm is marketing Cassandro’s image and legacy, including through merchandise such as t-shirts and dolls, Pina said. He was unavailable to meet with El Paso Matters in time for this story, his publicists said.Īrmendáriz recently signed with Motion Entertainment Lifestyle Networks to create a “new brand and conversation focused on perseverance, inclusivity and faith,” founder John Pina told El Paso Matters. He had a brain embolism in May 2021 and has since been in therapy to try to regain his speech and other motor skills, recently conducting selected interviews via text and through his publicists. Hernandez.Īrmendáriz’s latest battle is aphasia, a disorder resulting from damage to the part of the brain that controls language. Support local! Get your signed copy of “All They Will Call You” at Literarity Book Shop and join us on September 20 to meet El Paso author, Tim Z. And for more than 30 years in the ring, he showcased his flamboyant costumes alongside his athleticism and signature wheelbarrow victory roll – and often, his liplock closing move.Įl Paso Matters Book Club Discussion: “All They Will Call You” Saul Armendariz, second from left, best known as Cassandro el Exótico, poses with EP Heroes Lucha Libre of New Era Wrestling Entertainment during a “Lucha Libre: Stories from the Ring” exhibit at the El Paso Museum of History in 2021. It was the early 1990s and the El Paso-born wrestler’s career was taking off, blazing trails as the first openly gay luchador exótico in Mexico. A Spanish version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” plays on the intercom as Armendáriz enters the ring. He tops the look with a bejeweled cloak with a train so long that it drags several feet behind his 5-foot-5 frame. He slips into his lycra tights, a shiny spandex singlet and high wrestling boots. He styles his sandy blond hair with a curling iron – and lots and lots of hairspray.
In the dressing room of the Gimnasio Josué Neri Santos in Ciudad Juárez, Sául Armendáriz carefully applies glimmering eye shadow, long fake lashes and red lipstick.
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