Bad Bunny has already made his name as a musician, breaking records with the highest-grossing tour for any Latin artist and debuting at the Number 1 spot with his most recent album, Un Verano Sin Ti. He’s also an increasingly lauded style icon, but the Puerto Rican singer and rapper is also building out his resume as an actor.
Following on from his roles in the action movies F9 and Bullet Train, Bad Bunny—real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—will take on his first leading role in El Muerto, playing a wrestler with superhuman strength, as part of Sony’s growing universe of movies inspired by Spider-Man characters.
Before that, though, he will play a supporting character in the upcoming Cassandro, an Amazon Prime Video movie based on the life of the real-life Mexican luchador Saúl Armendári, who worked as an exotico, or drag performer, under the name Cassandro. Gael García Bernal portrays the lead role, and Bad Bunny plays his love interest. In fact, it was during the filming of Cassandro that he had his first on-screen kiss—with Bernal.
“My first kiss for a movie and it was with a man,” he said in a recent interview with TIME. “That’s the penalty I get for being with so many women during my life.”
As far as Bunny was concerned, a same-sex kiss was no big deal if that was what the performance called for. “If you’re acting, you’re being someone you’re not,” he added. “So when they asked me for that, I said, ‘Yes, I’m here for whatever you want.’ I think it was very cool; I didn’t feel uncomfortable.”
Bad Bunny made headlines when he kissed a male dancer onstage at the VMAs
It might have been his first on-screen kiss, but it wasn’t Bad Bunny’s first time kissing a guy: during a live performance at the 2022 MTV VMAs, the rapper shared a passionate on-stage smooch with one of his male backing dancers. He has also made headlines for defying gender stereotypes in what he wears.
“Like, what defines a man, what defines being masculine, what defines being feminine? I really can’t give clothes gender,” he told GQ. “To me, a dress is a dress. If I wear a dress, would it stop being a woman’s dress? Or vice versa? Like, no. It’s a dress, and that’s it. It’s not a man’s, it’s not a woman’s. It’s a dress.”
Philip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV.
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