DEL TORO: 'CHE GUEVARA WAS A WARRIOR, LIKE BATMAN'

Last updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009

DEL TORO: 'CHE GUEVARA WAS A WARRIOR, LIKE BATMAN'

Oscar winner BENICIO DEL TORO has become such a big fan of ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA after playing the revolutionary in director STEVEN SODERBERGH's four-hour epic, he's keen to defend the leader from his critics.

Benicio Del Toro as Che in CHE directed by Steven Soderbergh.

The Traffic star spent months reading up on Guevara and is now convinced Che was "a warrior" with a very bad reputation.

He says, "I remember Che being included in a TV show that showed pictures of terrorists. I was like, 'Why isn't (President Richard) Nixon there for the Vietnam war?' You'd have to put a lot of pictures of other people there before you'd put Che's."

Del Toro tells Latina magazine he thinks the revolutionary was just like Batman: "We tell stories about Batman, and he was a type of Batman. No one can deny that he was trying to stop man exploiting man. Whether he was successful or not...

"Two people who I met learned how to read and write because of him. It was really moving... The most revealing thing was that he (Guevara) was a human being."

Source: WENN

| Thursday, January 15, 2009

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