Diego Luna: On Going From "Andor" to Argentina in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

Diego Luna: On Going From "Andor" to Argentina in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

At one point during our discussion about his new film, Diego Luna likens the character he plays to a Matryoshka doll, the Russian wooden figures that nest within each other. The reference is apropos for the film itself. Kiss of the Spider Woman began life as a 1976 novel by Manuel Puig, and as Luna points out, the haunting story of two vastly different men who form an unlikely bond when imprisoned together has spawned various iterations. “It is …

'Spider Woman' and the Year's Changing Roles of LGBT+ in Films & TV - Golden Globes

The first time as a moviegoer that director Bill Condon felt seen as a gay man was with the 1971 “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.” “There was a great big passionate kiss between the older and younger man that was absolutely wonderful and a completely non-judgmental portrayal of a gay man,” Condon says. Prior to that, LGBTQ+ representation was often preachy or depressing, often culminating in death, as Vito Russo so shockingly presented in his 1981 book a…