Amazon Prime Video has premiered the trailer for the true story story “Cassandro” starring Gael Garcia Bernal because the famed flamboyant wrestler dubbed the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’.
Set within the early Nineteen Eighties, Bernal performs homosexual wrestler Saul Armendariz who lives in El Paso, Texas, and commonly crosses the border to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico to take part in lucha libre wrestling matches.
He wrestles as El Topo till he meets a brand new coach, Sabrina, who suggests he ought to compete as an ‘exotico’, luchadors who carry out in drag and camp it up.
This results in his new id and rising success as ‘Cassandro’ who upends not simply the macho wrestling world, but additionally his personal life.
The movie had its world premiere on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant and has pulled in a 97% (7.6/10) on Rotten Tomatoes with raves for Bernal’s efficiency. Raul Castillo, Roberta Colindrez, Dangerous Bunny, Perla De La Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, Robert Salas, and El Hijo Del Santo co-star.
Oscar and Emmy-winning director Roger Ross Williams directs the movie from a script co-written by David Teague. “Cassandro” will rating a restricted launch on September fifteenth adopted by a Prime Video launch on September twenty second.