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Meet Héctor Medina, the Dazzling Lead Actor of ‘Los Frikis’
BillboardStory by Sigal Ratner-Arias
scrn logline
Cuban actor Héctor Medina lands the starring role in 'Los Frikis', a gripping film about punks in '90s Cuba who intentionally contracted HIV to secure a spot in a government-run treatment retreat.
beat sheet
- Medina was initially approached as a consultant on the film but ended up scoring the lead role of Paco, the punk rocker protagonist.
- The true story behind 'Los Frikis' explores the punk subculture in Cuba during the early '90s, when some youth deliberately infected themselves with HIV in order to gain access to a government-run treatment facility and live out their own counterculture utopia.
call sheet
Héctor Medina, Los Frikis, 'Los Frikis'