James Franco’s Casting As Fidel Castro In ‘Alina Of Cuba’ Spurs Online And Industry Backlash

Left: Fidel Castro in Washington, D.C., in 1979. Right: James Franco in 2019. Getty Images Fernandez was 10 years old when she learned Castro was her biological father. She later became a staunch anti-Castro activist and was arrested several times as a dissident for attempting to flee the communist nation before successfully defecting to Spain in 1993. Advertisement Fernandez will serve as an on-set creative and biographical consultant, and the project was written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter José Rivera and Cuban Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. But Franco’s casting has already sparked backlash — most notably from his fellow actors. “How… Read Full Article