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Article: Casting of Banderas to play Pancho Villa is decried.(The Orange County Register)
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- July 29, 2002
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He's cute, he's sexy and ay! can he make you melt, but Mexican, Antonio Banderas is not.
And no matter how popular, how skilled or how big of a box-office draw this Spanish actor is, there's no convincing Naui Huitzilopochtli that Banderas can play the role of one of Mexico's most revered heroes, Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
HBO Films recently announced that Banderas had agreed to star in the upcoming biopic "Pancho Villa as Himself," about the Chihuahuan revolutionary leader who fought for land reform during the Mexican Civil War of 1910-1920.
It's a decision that has the Southern California-based Atlachinolli Front, an indigenous-rights ...