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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Bentley, Others Join Chavez Biopic

Wes Bentley, Michael Cudlitz Jacob Vargas, Yancey Arias, and Mark Moses have all joined the cast of the indie biopic "Chavez reports Variety.

The film follows Cesar E. Chavez (Michael Pena) who organised the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to obtain basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.


Bentley (Pictured) will play fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, Cudlitz will play a sheriff who lets his personal opinions cloud his judgment, Vargas will play Cesar's older brother, Arias will play the United Farm Workers Union secretary-treasurer Gilbert Padilla, Moses will play seasoned organizer Fred Ross who mentors Chavez.

America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson co-star as Chavez's wife and top aide respectively.

Diego Luna's calling action from Keir Pearson's script.

Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith and Larry Meli will produce the pic.

Production began this week in Mexico.

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