Bad Bunny Gets Rave Reviews by 'Cassandro' Director

Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams' luchador biopic "Cassando" has hit streaming on Amazon Prime, and the director has preemptively given rapper Bad Bunny rave reviews for his involvement in the film.

In an interview with Pink News, Williams said that he foresees many more acting roles in the Puerto Rican actor's future.

"He's such a good actor and he loves wrestling," said Williams. "He's a big fan of Lucha Libre, so his people contacted my people," Williams reveals that he couldn't belief it. "When I heard, I was like: 'Are you kidding?' I couldn't believe it."

Believe it. In the film, Bunny plays a drug dealer by the name of Felipe. And as seen with his scene-stealing kiss on Gael García Bernal as Cassandro in the film, Bad Bunny reportedly showed quite the prowess during the acting process.

"He was a joy to work with. He is the sweetest guy and very serious. He takes his acting very seriously and I thought he was brilliant," said Williams.

Williams is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has taken on telling Saúl Armendáriz's story as Cassandro before.

He directed a short documentary, "The Man Without The Mask," around five years ago about a gay amateur wrestler (dubbed the Liberace of Lucha Libre) for The New Yorker.

About Armendáriz's story, Williams called it "totally inspiring."

"It's a totally inspiring story," Williams exclusively tells PinkNews.

"It's about a gay man who came to terms with who he is and wrestled on his own terms and rose to the top of a macho community as an out gay man," Williams explained. "It's so inspiring, how can I not want to tell this story?"

Telling the story also meant including gay sex, said Williams. Including explicit details of Armendáriz's life as a gay man, the film features an especially intimate scene between Cassandro and Gerardo which Williams said was shot on a closed set.

"The sex scene is a really important storytelling plot for the development of the character of Cassandro," said Williams, as he explains that there were more twists and turns in Cassandro's than 140 minutes would allow.

"I had to leave a lot out because there's a lot more to his story," he said. "I can't put it all in, like in a documentary. In a way, it has to be a simplified, very focused, emotional story about a mother and son and the yearning for this love from his father, which he never gets. But then learns to love himself."

"Cassandro" is available now on Amazon Prime for streaming.