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Alicia Civita

Diego Boneta's Fidel Castro Transformation in 'Killing Castro' Started With the Team Behind Luis Miguel - EXCLUSIVE

For Diego Boneta, the most shocking part of becoming Fidel Castro was not the fear, although there was plenty of that. It was not the politics either, even though he says the role arrived at a moment when Cuba feels newly urgent again. It was the discovery that the thing audiences are most likely to talk about first, how uncannily he looks like Fidel in his new movie 'Killing Castro,' came down to something surprisingly small.

"The most impressive thing is that it was minimal," Boneta said to this reporter, after recalling the long road to the role. "It was only the nose."

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