The Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro receive a film award at Cuba

Thursday July 30, 09:03 PM Havana, July 31 (EFE) .- The Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro received as "an honor" the award film "Tomás Gutiérrez Alea" in Havana, where he is visiting with of artists James Caan, Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. "It's an honor to share this with all the artists here. As an artist I feel that we are in the same boat," said Del Toro to receive the award with the name of the deceased Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea, which first gave the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). In remarks to reporters, Benicio del Toro said that the ceremony "was a show that will not ever be able to imitate : Bill Murray singing Robert Duvall with a bouquet of flowers, James Caan sat next to me "and also the presence of Cuban players Mirta Ibarra and Jorge Perugorría. UNEAC president, Miguel Barnet, considered to receive the delegation of American filmmakers "is an obvious explanation and demonstration of how much respect" feel "for the true culture of the United States." Over and above any obstacle, freezing, locking in dispute, and we respect all the good that much has been done in this country and culture in Puerto Rico, which is a brotherly country, "added the writer. Del Toro arrived in Havana on Wednesday, accompanied by a dozen artists and people related to cinema, including Laura Bickford , producer of the film "Che", in which the actor embodied the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara. In his companions on this visit said that "they came to Cuba because they wanted to come to Cuba with the (…) Award winner. "Asked about a possible meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro, the Puerto Rican actor replied that if invited to attend the event. As regards its activities until next Sunday, when completed the visit, said that going to see people and learn a bit more "on Cuba. The Puerto Rican actor, who won acting awards at the Cannes Film Festival and" Goya ", in Spain, for his role in" Che, "had presented the two sides of Movie filmmaker Steven Soderbergh in the U.S. Film Festival in Havana last December. But after this experience related to the history of the Cuban revolution has not indicated that any film project related to the island, and the possibility of filming in Cuba that "this depends on the U.S. government." The star of "Traffic" indicated that he has no plan for filming the next few weeks, but spoke of a project that Martin Scorsese will direct the film, even without specific, scheduled for next year. Average (Not Rated)