Benicio del Toro news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Benicio del Toro performances. According to Wikipedia: Benicio Monserrat Rafael Del Toro Sanchez is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Puerto Rican actor. He grew up...
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Benicio del Toro news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Benicio del Toro performances. According to Wikipedia: Benicio Monserrat Rafael Del Toro Sanchez is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning Puerto Rican actor. He grew up in Santurce, but spent his teens and attended high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
Actor Benicio del Toro attends "Che" Japan Premiere at Roppongi Hills on December 16, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will open on January 10. (Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Benicio del Toro (Getty Images) more pics » Benicio del Toro apparently didn't buy the idea that girls had cooties. The 42-year-old actor first became interested in the opposite sex when he was a toddler, and claims it was a natural progression for him to lose his virginity when he was just 13... Read Full Story
Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "extreme animal abuse." In a letter to Gov. Luis Fortuno, the Puerto Rico-born actor says the Mauritius-based company Bioculture's facility would be cruel. It would supply monkeys to pharmaceutical companies for research. Fortuno's office and Bioculture did not immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday. Bioculture community coordinator Jacinto Rivera Solivan previously... Read Full Story
Benicio del Toro accepted a new Cuban government award for international artists at a ceremony in Havana on Thursday, while Bill Murray entertained a small audience by crooning from "As Time Goes By. Fellow actors Robert Duval and James Caan were also on hand as the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba gave Puerto Rican-born del Toro the first Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize for his career body of work, including the lead in "Che." Steven Soderbergh's two-part, 4 1/2-hour biopic on... Read Full Story
HAVANA (Reuters) - Havana's famous seaside avenue, the Malecon, could be mistaken for Hollywood Boulevard this week as four high profile film stars come to the Cuban capital in the splashiest sign yet of warming U.S.-Cuba relations. Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, with del Toro in town to pick up an award and the other three working on a "research project," a spokesman for the group said on Thursday. The spokesman, who asked not to be... Read Full Story
HAVANA (Reuters) - Havana's famous seaside avenue, the Malecon, could be mistaken for Hollywood Boulevard this week as four high profile film stars come to the Cuban capital in the splashiest sign yet of warming U.S.-Cuba relations. Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, with del Toro in town to pick up an award and the other three working on a "research project," a spokesman for the group said on Thursday. The spokesman, who asked not to be... Read Full Story
Actor Benicio del Toro met with convicts inside a Puerto Rican prison Monday, offering encouragement to a jailhouse theater group and a few tips from his own Oscar-winning career. The Puerto Rico-born actor interrupted his vacation in the U.S. Caribbean territory for the talk at Bayamon Regional Prison outside the capital, San Juan. "I believe everyone needs a second chance," del Toro told about 30 inmates who take part in the theater group. "I am here to help reaffirm that as long as there... Read Full Story
I’ve got to say it, The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins is looking particularly awesome.
The more I see of it the more I want to see it.
Directed by Joe Stevenson and starring Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and the aforementioned Benicio Del Toro.
The Wolfman sees Del Toro play a man who [...] Read Full Story
In one of the more interesting casting announcements in recent months, Variety reports that MGM is making a Three Stooges feature with Sean Penn set to play Larry while Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro are in negotiations for Curly and Moe, respectively. The Farrelly Brothers will direct from a script they wrote and the movie is expected to go into production this fall for a 2010 release.
While I can easily picture Carrey doing the physical shtick the Stooges are known for, I was surprised... Read Full Story
This is legitimately the craziest news I’ve heard all year, but hey, y’know, it’s only March. To wit: the Farrelly Brothers — makers of such fine films as There’s Something About Mary , Dumb and Dumber , and Shallow Hal — have announced the casting for their upcoming Three Stooges remake. Hold onto your wigs, folks.
Larry: Sean Penn . Moe: Benicio Del Toro. Curly: Jim Carrey. Akela: dumbfounded.
Now, to set the appropriate level of WTF, consider this. Sean Penn is an Oscar winner with... Read Full Story
Puerto Rican heartthrob Benicio Del Toro began chasing girls at an early age - he lost his virginity at just 13 years old.
The Oscar winner’s interest in the opposite sex began when he was very young and he admits he was always popular with girls. And Del Toro was determined to get intimate with an older acquaintance when he was barely into his teens.
He tells Playboy magazine, “I remember liking girls in pre-kindergarten in Puerto Rico, when I was only three or four. I wasn’t a... Read Full Story
