Kissing another man for the world to see wasn’t a thing for Bad Bunny with his upcoming role in the true life drama “Cassandro.”
In fact, the reggaetón superstar — whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — referred to it as “badass.”
Gracing the very first cover of Time Magazine with all Spanish text, Bad Bunny opened up about his first onscreen movie kiss, which happened to be with the film’s leading man.
“It was cabrón (badass). My first kiss for a movie and it was with a man,” he said.
“That’s the penalty I get for being with so many women during my life,” Bad Bunny — currently romantically linked to model Kendall Jenner — then joked.
In the Roger Ross Williams-directed film, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Festival in January, Bad Bunny portrays Gael García Bernal’s love interest in the story about the openly gay Mexican wrestler known as “Liberace of Lucha Libre.”
And Bad Bunny took his part in “Cassandro” seriously.
“If you’re acting, you’re being someone you’re not,” the 29-year-old Puerto Rico native explained. “That’s the fun part. So when they asked me [to do the kiss], I said, ‘Yes, I’m here for whatever you want.’ I think it was very cool. I didn’t feel uncomfortable. It’s part of acting. It’s part of what I’m doing.”
But locking lips with another male is not foreign territory for the performer. During the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards at Yankee Stadium, he leaned over to share a kiss with one of his male backup dancers while performing “Tití Me Preguntó.”
And in a 2020 GQ cover story, Bad Bunny seemingly embroidered sexual fluidity.
“I think that sex is a giant world, and everyone is free to see it as they want and do it with whoever they want, however they want, with infinite possibilities,” he shared. “In the end, we are human beings. Everybody feels, everybody falls in love with whoever they’re meant to.”
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