Condon created his newest adaptation by blending the novel’s grittiness and its extravagant Broadway adaptation, effectively taking audiences on a journey between reality and fantasy.<\/p>\n
Condon’s urgency to introduce “Kiss of the Spider Woman” to a new generation of viewers was so powerful that he took a leap of faith and wrote the film on spec, with no guarantee that it would get made. <\/p>\n
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“I just thought it had to be done,” Condon said. “I really wanted to make it in a pure way. I thought it was the only way to do it.”<\/p>\n
For Lopez, the story of \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman\u201d will continue to stand the test of time.<\/p>\n
“I feel like the story and the message is not done yet. It needed to be told again, to this generation. We need to remind people of the humanity of these communities,” she said. “It\u2019s a story that I think will keep being told until everybody gets on board with the fact that we\u2019re all just people.”<\/p>\n
Introducing a new star<\/p>\n
As Lopez brought her own style to the character Rivera originated on Broadway, Tonatiuh was stepping into the role of Molina, which earned Hurt an Oscar for best actor in the 1985 film adaptation.<\/p>\n
While they were on the film set, Lopez told Tonatiuh<\/a> that she saw his dynamic performance in the movie as his “Selena moment,” in reference to Lopez’s own breakout role in the 1997 biopic of the late Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla-P\u00e9rez<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This moment is making me feel like I\u2019m ready to cry,” Tonatiuh told NBC News when asked about the sweet moment. “I just feel so grateful.”<\/p>\n Previously seen in Starz’s “Vida” <\/a>and Netflix’s “Carry-On” and now one of Variety’s “10 Actors to Watch<\/a>,” Tonatiuh, a Los Angeles native of Mexican American heritage, said having the opportunity “to champion stories that represent the different communities that I\u2019m a part of just feels like a gift.”<\/p>\n In “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Tonatiuh plays a character who embodies “the totality of the gender spectrum” in a film that centers the dignity of Latino and the LGBTQIA communities, he said. <\/p>\n “Oftentimes people in marginalized communities get conditioned as children to think that they\u2019re not worthy and they internalize this narrative,” Tonatiuh said. “Molina, despite all the horrors that happen to them, says, ‘I refuse to look at that and to be anything other than happy.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director and screenwriter Bill Condon told NBC News that “is very much the essence of the story,” going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-201285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tonatiuh_thumbnail-wpss1f.jpg\")
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