The Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro has been chosen to play the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in the film by Italian Andrea Di Stefano «Paradise Lost«.
The so far actor Andrea DiStefano He will debut with this film as a director, a film that is scheduled to begin filming in March next year.
The producer Dimitri Rassam comments on the actor, who is not really the protagonist of "Paradise Lost": "He is one of the few actors with enough charisma and acting range to take on such a multifaceted character as Escobar, who could be as wonderfully charming as he was dangerous and threatening."
"Paradise Lost" tells the story of a surfer who falls in love with a girl who turns out to be the niece of the greatest drug dealer of all time, Pablo Escobar.
The two main characters, Pablo Escobar's niece and the young man who falls in love with her, still do not have assigned interpreters, although it will not take long to know who will be the actors who will give them life once the incorporation of Benicio Del Toro in the project.
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