Unhealthy Bunny loves professional wrestling. He’s confirmed this repeatedly. Benito has used his overwhelming reputation to get into wrestling itself, working a couple of WWE matches over the previous few years. (In Might, he received a surprisingly nice avenue combat in opposition to Damian Priest on the San Juan pay-per-view Backlash.) Unhealthy Bunny can be simply beginning his performing profession, and he did fairly effectively with the combat choreography in final 12 months’s Bullet Prepare. Proper now, Benito is hooked up to play the lead in El Muerto, a forthcoming Marvel film a few lucha libre superhero. Earlier than that, although, he’ll seem in Cassandro, a brand new biopic a few legendary queer luchador.

The veteran professional wrestler Cassandro is the world’s most well-known exótico. In lucha libre historical past, exóticos, a lot of whom are queer in actual life, play up homosexual stereotypes to — typically as dangerous guys, typically not. Cassandro has been an exótico for many years, and he’s received over international audiences to the purpose the place he’s a beloved fixture on the professional wrestling panorama. (I did a bunch of analysis on Cassandro for an epiosde of Colt Cabana’s Professional Wrestling Fringe podcast a couple of years in the past.)

Veteran documentarian Roger Ross Williams, who received the Finest Documentary Brief Oscar in 2009, made the 2016 documentary The Man With out A Masks about Cassandro, and now he’s making his function debut with the brand new biopic Cassandro. Gael García Bernal performs the title function, and the solid additionally contains Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, and Joaquín Cosío. Lucha legend El Hijo Del Santo performs himself. Unhealthy Bunny is within the movie as a personality named Felipe, and he will get a bunch of face time within the trailer, although it’s onerous to say whether or not he’ll really play a significant function within the film. Nonetheless, Cassandro appears good! Take a look at the trailer under.

Cassandro opens in theaters 9/15, and it’ll stream on Amazon Prime Video 9/22.