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‘Los Frikis’: How the Directors of ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ Brought One of Cuba’s Strangest Stories to Screen With Help From Lord & Miller
From the Peanut Butter Falcon directors, Los Frikis stars Adria Arjona in the true story of Cuban punk rockers who inject themselves with HIV.
It was through these friendships with actors and artists in the Cuban community, Schwartz says, that he and Nilson learned the true story of “Los Frikis” — a group of impoverished punk rockers in 1990s Cuba who intentionally injected themselves with HIV as a means of securing food, shelter and freedom in a government-run sanatorium. At a special screening of “Los Frikis” hosted at Creative Artists Agency last month, Eros De La Puente — who plays Gustavo — revealed during a Q&A that prior to the film’s premiere, he had never been inside a movie theater before. He highlighted the combination of comedic and dramatic elements in “Los Frikis” as creative priorities for the filmmakers, emphasizing how he finds it difficult to discover characters if a story maintains a dark tone over the entirety of its runtime.
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