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Los Frikis (film)
American historical drama film
For the subculture featured within the film, see Los Frikis.
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| Screenplay by | Tyler Nilson Michael Schwartz |
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| Cinematography | Santiago Gonzalez |
| Edited by | Jon Otazua |
| Music by | Steven Price |
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| Distributed by | Wayward/Range |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $164,748 |
Los Frikis is a 2024 American drama film based on true events, set in Cuba in the 1990s. It is written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, who also wrote and directed The Peanut Butter Falcon. It stars Héctor Medina, Eros de la Puente and Adria Arjona, and is produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Premise
Inspired by the audacity and resilience of kindred souls facing the challenges of Special PeriodCuba, this film tells the story of youthful members of a punk rock band, who, seeking musical freedom, relief from poverty, and a sense of independence, purposely infect themselves with HIV. This allows them refuge at an isolated government run sanatorium where they live life on their own terms, forging a seemingly utopian community and looking to an uncertain future with hope and resilience.
Cast
- Adria Arjona as Maria
- Héctor Medina as Paco
- Eros de la Puente as Gustavo
- Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez Gomez
- Pedro Martínez
- Euriamis Losada
- Jorge Enrique Caballero
Production
The film is written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, who previously directed The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019). New Slate finances the film with Schwartz and Nilson as producers alongside Euriamis Losada was born in Santa Fe, Cuba to Rev. Luis and Maria Losada. At the age of 6, his family moved to Miami and before long, E.L. began pursuing his interests in both singing and acting. He hit the South Florida theater scene, playing a great variety of roles in stage plays and musical theater, receiving critical acclaim and 'Best Actor' awards for Jekyll & Hyde, Romeo & Juliet and Bat Boy. E.L. moved to Los Angeles to expand into TV and film, gathering credits that include Cold Case, Trophy Wife and Steven Soderbergh's award winning biopic Che: Part One. BornOctober 1983
E.L. is known for his versatility as an actor on stage and screen, and as a powerfully rich tenor singer. In September 2014, he took over the lead role as the iconic Cuban band leader 'Ricky Ricardo' in the 2014-15 national tour of "I Love Lucy Live on Stage".
Theater Interview: EURIAMIS LOSADA (appearing in WINK at Hollywood’s Zephyr Theatre)
LOSADA COLADA!
Looking at photos of Euriamis Losada, it’s no wonder the female (and some part of the male) populace goes gaga at his looks on his muscular 6’ frame. Cuban-born and USA-raised since age six, this talented actor and singer has been performing since his teenhood in Miami, Florida.
After years of singing in church choirs (his father is a retired Methodist minister), he discovered his full voice in high school and college where, as he acknowledges, “I was cast in leading roles before I was a senior, which got me into trouble with others students.” Years later, he starred in the 2014-15 national tour of the I Love Lucy: Live on Stage musical as Ricky Ricardo (hired by the highly-respected casting director, Michael Donovan).
Now in his mid-thirties (although he can play half-a-decade younger), he understands enough about the craft of acting to “know how to age up and age down, depending on the needs of the role.”
He plays his age in a new drama, Wink, about an androgynous, homeless, gender-questioning teenager of the same name, his family, and the gay social worker who befriends him (pictured above is Losada with Adam Cordon.) It opens Dec. 8 and plays until January 13, 2019, at Hollywood’s Zephyr Theatre.
Losada has performed in a wide variety of styles, including Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet) and Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey into Night). He appeared as the monster in Frankenstein, and in the musicals Bat Boy and Jekyll & Hyde. On camera, he can be seen in Steven Soderbergh’s Che (Part 1), NBC’s Cold Case, ABC’s Trophy Wife, and NBC’s Powerless, and the web-series How to Be a Vampire, from 2016.
Single for now, with no kids (that he knows of), he acknowledges much Latin Pride. “Having been born between two worlds, that of my Cuban heritage and my adopted American life, as an actor it has w .