Bad Bunny Gets First Leading Film Role — And It Couldn't Be More Perfect For Him

It’s been a large mates of weeks for Puerto Rican popular sensation Bad Bunny. First, helium won the Grammy grant for medium of the year, past helium took the signifier for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, generating plentifulness of attraction successful the process. Now, he’s snagged his archetypal starring movie role, alongside Javier Bardem and Edward Norton.

Bad Bunny, existent sanction Benito Martínez Ocasio, volition prima successful Porto Rico, directed by rapper René Pérez (aka Residente). The film, which has been successful improvement for astir 3 years, volition beryllium based connected and inspired by the communicative of José Maldonado Román, a antheral known arsenic Águila Blanca oregon White Eagle who was integral successful warring Spanish colonialism successful Puerto Rico successful the precocious 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries.

The movie, which was described by the BBC arsenic a “love letter” to the self-governing territory of the United States, volition besides prima Viggo Mortensen and volition spot Birdman and The Revenant manager Alejandro G. Iñárritu service arsenic enforcement producer.

Bad Bunny. Image credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images.

"This movie is simply a reaffirmation of who we are - told with the strength and honesty that our past deserves," Pérez precocious told Deadline. "I person dreamed of making a movie astir my state since I was a child. Puerto Rico's existent past has ever been surrounded by controversy."

Norton besides opened up astir the upcoming project. "This movie sits successful a contented of films we profoundly love, from The Godfather to Gangs of New York, that some thrill america with visceral play and iconic characters and eras portion besides forcing america to look up to the shadiness communicative nether the American communicative of idealism,” helium explained successful a statement. “Everybody knows what a writer of connection and bushed René is. Now they're going to spot what a ocular visionary helium is arsenic well."

"Bringing him and Bad Bunny unneurotic to archer the existent communicative of Puerto Rico's roots is going to beryllium similar a occurrence uncovering the instrumentality of dynamite that's been waiting for it," the Fight Club histrion added.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Bad Bunny has made an quality connected the large screen. He tin beryllium spotted making supporting appearances and cameos successful F9, the Brad Pitt conveyance (no pun intended) Bullet Train, Happy Gilmore 2, and Darren Aronofsky's latest Caught Stealing.

No merchandise day conscionable yet connected this one, but hopefully there’s much quality connected the skyline for Benito fans.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.