In Bad Education, the Spanish Catholic church exerts a powerful and abusive influence, but Bernal is eager to point out that its position is very different in his homeland. In Brazil,' he digresses, 'there are six football beaches, and once a month everyone dresses as girls and plays in drag there.' He flashes a toothy smile: 'It's nice to be anarchic with yourself and just enjoy it, you can learn a lot.' 'It's like finding the clown you have inside you that's only particular to oneself. 'Yeah, it was liberating to be out on the street,' he enthuses. In fact, Bernal embraced his inner woman so completely, he went out on the town in drag.

His thick black hair is chopped about in the most modern of mullets. On a blistering Cannes day, Bernal looks enviably cool in fitted jeans, cowboy boots and a mucho trendy black cotton jacket. He also has all the physical makings of a movie star. Hollywood can only be a heartbeat away.Īnd they'd be a fool not to snap him up: Bernal is seriously good. The King, a US independent production starring Daryl Hannah and Sam Shepard, is in post-production. An actor since childhood, when he hit the boards with his thespian parents, Bernal's star has been steadily rising since he came to international attention in Amores Perros in 2000 and built on it the following year with Y Tu Mama Tambien. But then, Bernal is the hot prospect at this year's festival the 25-year-old Mexican actor stars in two of the biggest films - Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education and Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries. His face stares down from posters and magazine covers his booty has been seen shaking it on the dance floor.

Gael Garcia Bernal is all over Cannes like a rash.

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