In Hollywood, truth is stranger than fiction.
On Thursday, Deadline announced that James Franco, he of “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” had been cast as Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Alina of Cuba,” a biopic inspired by the life of his estranged daughter, Alina Fernández.
On Friday, after the casting of a white U.S. actor in the role of a prominent Latin American political figure had drawn widespread condemnation online (including some very pointed criticism from actor John Leguizamo), one of the film’s producers came forth with an explanation.
