Layton Williams and pro dance partner Nikita wowed judges and fans alike on Saturday night after their salsa performance.
02.10.2023 - 01:39 / qvoicenews.com
It’s Cassandro’s time to shine.
The latest biopic from Amazon Prime Video tells the fascinating origin of Saúl Armendáriz or, as he is better known to the world, Cassandro.
Coming up in a time when homophobia ran rampant in sports and culture, “Cassandro” tells the story of Armendáriz and his rise to become a beloved exótico luchador and one of the lucha libre world’s most flamboyant and iconic out icons.
Filled to the brim with queerness, the film also stars a bevy of names, including “Y Tu Mamá También”’s Gael García Bernal, “Looking” heartthrob Raúl Castillo, and, in one of his very first acting roles, Grammy-winning popstar Bad Bunny.
Out got the chance to speak to “Cassandro” director and co-writer Roger Ross Williams about crafting the film, working with the likes of Gael García Bernal and Raúl Castillo, why he wanted to tell Cassandro’s story, being Bad Bunny’s “first,” and more.
Out: Even before you had written the film and even before you were set to direct it, when was the first time you heard about Cassandro and learned about him and his story?
Roger Ross Williams: I did a short documentary for The New Yorker Presents series on Amazon Prime Video, and that’s when I first met Cassandro. The New Yorker came to me and said, We have this great story. It was a story in The New Yorker magazine. I went and I said yes immediately because I read the story. I was blown away by Cassandro’s story. And then I went and met Cassandro and I just couldn’t believe he radiates this energy, this sort of charisma, this positive energy. He’s so positive and confident, and his flamboyance, and he just loved himself. We sat down and we started doing the interview and he was telling me his story and we both started crying and I was
Layton Williams and pro dance partner Nikita wowed judges and fans alike on Saturday night after their salsa performance.
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Loose Women star Brenda Edwards shared her support for Strictly Come Dancing star Layton Williams, who is taking the show by storm with his professional dance partner Nikita Kuzmin this year, after attending Saturday night's performance. The TV star and panellist is a singer and theatre star herself, having announced her next project as the director of a West End touring production earlier this year. And after a night watching the celebrity contestants tear up the Elstree Studios dance floor on 14 October, Brenda was bubbling with excitement to take part in the competition next year too.
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Strictly Come Dancing contestant Layton Williams said he has faced “low key trolling” that he has found “overwhelming”. On Sunday, a day after Layton and professional dance partner Nikita Kuzmin received four nines from the judges on the BBC show, the 29-year-old revealed that he had been getting mixed messages from the public. Writing on social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, Layton said: “The messages of love are overwhelming but as is the low key trolling.
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After another exciting round of dancing from all 15 of this year's contestants, Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin topped the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard with a score of 65 points! The exciting development came after the duo performed a Quickstep to Puttin’ on the Ritz by Gregory Porter, something which saw them receive high praise from the judges, with Motsi Mabuse even branding the performance the "dance of the night." However, despite their success, another star was hot on Layton’s heels, as Amanda Abbington and Giovanni Pernice only narrowly missed out on the top spot with a score of 61. The latest leaderboard shake up comes just one week on since the debut live show of the season, which saw Nigel Harman beat some stiff competition to score 32 points with his first dance.
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