Bad Bunny swaps the microphone for the lead role
The rapper Bad Bunny doesn’t take a break.
After the success of the Super Bowl halftime show and the Grammy win for best album, the Puerto Rican artist is moving straight on. This time he gets to demonstrate his acting talent. He has been cast in his first leading role and will star in the film “Porto Rico” alongside well-known actors such as Javier Bardem, Edward Norton and Viggo Mortensen.
This is not his first appearance: Bad Bunny, real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has already been able to demonstrate his acting skills in a number of supporting roles – for example in “Bullet Train” with Brad Pitt or in “Caught Stealing” with Austin Butler.
Revolutionary film
He will now play a larger role in the new film “Porto Rico”. The film can be classified as a historical drama and is loosely based on the Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as Águila Blanca (White Eagle), the revolutionary fought against the Spanish, who had colonized the island of Puerto Rico at the time.
Iconic role models
Actor Norton compares the film to classics like “The Godfather” or “Gangs of New York,” which delight viewers with iconic characters and drama and at the same time illustrate the dark side of the American ideal.
From music to film
The film has been in the works since 2023. Like Bad Bunny, the director René Pérez Joglar also comes from the music business and was known as a rapper under the name “Residente”.
Residente told Deadline that he had always wanted to make a film about his native Puerto Rico, as Puerto Rico’s history has always been viewed as controversial. To this day, the island is administered as a foreign territory of the United States.
Bad Bunny stays true to himself
Bad Bunny is also known for being proud of his identity and his homeland of Puerto Rico and using his reach to do so.
With this role, Bad Bunny reinforces this again after he had already expressed his political stance with his halftime show.
