All the critics seem to agree that the revelation of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Marvel's Afrofuturist saga, is the Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta in the role of Namor, the antihero who has been reconverted to embody indigenismo or mesoamericanism. Disney has had no problem letting actor and character get confused, to add a layer of identity truth to the film. Huerta, who was a journalist and cameraman before becoming an actor, has just published the book Orgullo prieto (Grijalbo) in his country, in which he points out the racism inherent in Mexican society and ensures that he was involved so that his character was well built . He had the production hire Mayan-speaking academics from the Yucatán peninsula as consultants. In the book, Huerta explains how it was difficult for him to reach that dark pride that he talks about and before that he spent years trying to integrate into the white elite.
ANOTHER KIND OF INFINITE JOKE
Jarred McGinnis was 20 years old and studying at the university when he suffered a hit-and-run that left him a paraplegic. Since he did not have private health insurance, he had to go live with his biological father, whom he barely knew, and a friend of his, who ended up becoming his wife, dropped out of school to take care of him. That is the basis of the story of El covard, the successful novel that McGinnis wrote based on his own experience and that he is now publishing in Edicions del Periscopi. McGinnis has explained that one of the books that accompanied him in the first months of hospitalization and rehabilitation was The Infinite Joke, by David Foster Wallace, which had just been published. Partly because it was so long, and partly because one of the episodes Foster Wallace includes in it is about the Wheelchair Killers, a group of disabled Quebecois terrorists that McGinnis found strangely comforting.
LUIS ZAHERA, THE GALICIAN JOE PESCI
As Bestas confirms Luis Zahera as the Joe Pesci of the Spanish audiovisual. Every time his character, Xan, appears on the screen, or even when he doesn't appear, the viewer feels that maximum tension generated by performers capable of emitting deranged energy. Although on some occasions he has complained that Galician noir has led him to play so many drug traffickers and violent men, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's film, co-written by Isabel Peña, Zahera pushes his ability for restlessness to the limit in the monologues that take place. brand in a village bar populated only by men over 50 years of age where pomace and coffee liqueur are consumed and dominoes are played.
ALIS LESLEY, THE 'ELVIS PRESLEY WOMAN', WHO RETIRED AT 21 YEARS OLD AND NOW RESCUES BOB DYLAN
Bob Dylan's book of essays Philosophy of modern song, published by Anagrama at the end of the month, has a photo on the cover that is like the graphic translation of the first rock'n'roll. It was taken in Sydney in 1957 and two of its three leads are quite recognizable: Little Richard and Eddie Cochran. The one in the middle, however, is much less famous and it is to her that Dylan dedicates his text. Alis Lesley was actually called Alice Leslie but she changed the spelling of her name to be more reminiscent of Elvis Presley, as she was how Sun Records, her label, had decided to market her. In fact, she Lesley wore an androgynous look (sideburns and toupee, plaid shirts) and she sang Elvis hits at her concerts, especially Blue suede shoes, which she ended up taking off her shoes. The singer-guitarist retired from music at the age of 21 to care for her ailing mother, and she worked as a teacher in Native American communities. She is now 84 years old and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
WHAT DO YOU READ BONUS
Bono has just published his memoir, Surrender (Reservoir Books), and stars in the famous By The Book section of The New York Times, in which interviewees explain their lives through books and walk a fine line between vanity and the humility to try to remain, in the end, as excellent readers and good people. In his responses, Bono confesses that the book that marked his adolescence and made him think of women as something other than what he believed in was Country Girls, by Edna O'Brien, who has never read War and Peace, who spent a a good time copying the beatnik poets in his lyrics and that he made him sign so many books to give to the poet Seamus Heany that his widow often jokes that unsigned copies are worth more money at this point. Celebrity privileges.
