“I would love to say that I was their first choice. No, I was probably the dark horse in the race.”

Rarely in Hollywood does one see a star born overnight, but that’s what happened to Tonatiuh with Kiss of the Spider Woman . “I feel like I’m Hannah Montana but they’re whipping off the wigs too fast,” Tonatiuh says with a laugh about starring alongside Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Manuel Puig novel of the same name. “This has been, as an actor, one of the biggest, most challenging roles that I’ve ever had to play.” Set during Argentina’s Dirty War and centered on a genderqueer prisoner, Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) is forced to extract information from a cellmate (Luna) in this film within a film in which Tonatiuh plays dual roles.

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