Meet Héctor Medina, the Dazzling Lead Actor of ‘Los Frikis’
After a successful festival run, the film about a group of marginalized punk rockers in Cuba during the ’90s opens in U.S. theaters.
When Cuban actor Héctor Medina read the script for Los Frikis, he immediately knew he wanted the leading role of Paco. Initially contacted as a sort of consultant for the film, Medina was familiar with the story about a group of punk rockers in early ’90s Cuba who, in search of freedom, deliberately injected themselves with HIV to live in a government-administered rural treatment retreat and create their own utopia.
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