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Article: Spain's sexy new import.(actor Javier Bardem)(Brief Article)(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2000
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Meet Javier Bardem, the hot new star of the controversial Before Night Falls
Javier Bardem is a hunk. You know that already, of course. He was David, the paraplegic basketball-playing stud in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, and Diego, the gay doctor in Second Skin. Up close and in person at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the Spanish actor proves his magnetism is no cinematic sleight of hand. Elegant, manly, outfitted in the requisite black, and chain-smoking cigarettes by an open window, Bardem is charmingly modest about his recent Best Actor award from the Venice Film Festival for his role as the scandalous Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in ...