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Transcript: Argentines Upset With Casting of Eva Peron in New Film
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- February 7, 1996
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Director Alan Parker has cast Madonna as Evita Peron in his new movie
currently being filmed in Buenos Aires. A local author discusses why
Argentines, especially Peron loyalists, are upset at the casting.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: It happens that an American movie crew has arrived
in Argentina in Buenos Aires, director Alan Parker, getting ready
for this $55 million film Evita. The movie, as well as the Broadway
musical of that name, dramatizes the story of Eva Peron, President
Juan Peron's wife who died in 1952.
The lead role in the movie goes to Madonna, famous for her sexy
videos, if not her acting, and some in Argentina are upset by the
casting. ...