Che Wasn’t That Hot “Learn some history! The movie is Che. Go! Learn!” (Stephen Colbert while hosting Che leading man and producer Benicio Del Toro, July 1, 2009) “A great piece of work. This movie is based on history. It went to the source. If you own the poster and t shirt you owe it to yourself to go learn about the man.” (MSNBC’s Willie Geist while hosting Benicio Del Toro, January 6, 2009) “I still have my Che Guevara poster. Che Guevara was a freedom fighter.” (Bob Beckel, Fox News, September 5, 2011) While accepting the “best actor” award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role as Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s movie Che, Benicio Del Toro gushed: “I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara!” As the crowd erupted in a thunderous ovation, he continued: “I wouldn’t be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets you’ll have to pay your respects to the man!” In a flurry of subsequent interviews in Europe, Del Toro equated Che Guevara with Jesus Christ and again told a Spanish interviewer, “Ideologically I feel very close to Che.”1 “Dammit, this guy is cool”
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