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Diego Luna Adds Wes Bentley, Mark Moses & More For 'Chavez'

3 May 2012 6:43 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

The Wes Bentley comeback train keeps on going! The "American Beauty" star whose life was nearly ruined by his own overnight success/drug addiction is building on the momentum of "The Hunger Games" and has joined Diego Luna's next directorial effort with Mark Moses ("Mad Men"), Michael Cudlitz ("Southland"), Jacob Vargas ("Traffic") and Yancey Arias ("Legion") also on board for the story of labor-activist Cesar E. Chavez.

"Chavez" will see Michael Peña star as Chavez in the Keir Pearson-scripted tale that will follow the man as he organizes the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California. American Ferrerra and Rosario Dawson co-star as Chavez's wife Helen and political aide Dolores Huerta, respectively. 

Bentley, meanwhile, joins as fearless attorney Jerry Cohen, who became the backbone of the United Farm Workers' legal efforts with »

- Simon Dang

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Bentley, Cudlitz, Vargas Join "Chavez"

2 May 2012 9:07 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Michael Cudlitz ("Southland"), Jacob Vargas ("Traffic"), Yancey Arias ("Legion") and Mark Moses ("The Killing") have all joined the cast of Diego Luna's indie drama biopic "Chavez" reports Variety.

Keir Pearson's script 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 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 also star as Chavez's wife and top aide respectively. Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Cruz, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith and Larry Meli will produce. Shooting began this week in Mexico. »

- Garth Franklin

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Wes Bentley Co-Starring With Michael Pena In Diego Luna’s ‘Chavez’

2 May 2012 1:48 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

The Hunger Games and Terrence Malick‘s new film have solidified Wes Bentley‘s comeback trail, but Variety says he has yet another promising effort in the waits. (And I don’t mean Catching Fire, though that should do him a lot of good, too.) It would happen to be Chavez, the Michael Peña-led, Diego Luna-directed biopic of labor rights activist Cesar Chavez, which also stars Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera; shooting on the film began this week.

Written by Luna and Keir Pearson (Hotel Rwanda), it focuses on the period in which Chavez led “the largest nonviolent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.” He’s one of several new faces in the project’s fray; Jacob Vargas (Jarhead, Traffic), Mark Moses (Mad Men‘s Duck Phillips), Michael Cudlitz (Southland), and Yancey Arias (Legion, »

- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)

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