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Article: Antonio Banderas announces filming of Pancho Villa movie in Mexico
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- AP Worldstream
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- October 2, 2002
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Dateline: MEXICO CITY
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas will trade in the cape and mask from
his "The Mask of Zorro" role for a cartridge belt and a gun when he
begins filming yet another movie set in Mexico _ this time as revolutionary
hero Pancho Villa.
According to Wednesday's announcement, filming will start Oct. 7 in
the old Mexican mining town of Guanajuato. The movie will be an interesting
case of historical redux _ an actor playing a revolutionary who almost
became an actor himself.
The movie, titled "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself," is based
on a real incident in which Villa, eager to raise funds during the
1910-1917 Mexican revolution, ...