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Cuban ballet icon Carlos Acosta stars in biopic 'Yuli,' gets Goya Award nominations
“This is a Cuban story, so it’s not my story only,” said Acosta about "Yuli," which uses original choreographies to show different chapters of his life.
Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta gives an interview as he attends the film premiere for "Yuli", a biopic about his life, during Havana's International Film Festival in Havana on Dec. 7, 2018.Stringer / Reuters
Dec. 13, 2018 / 10:06 AM CST
By Reuters
HAVANA — For Carlos Acosta, the son of a black truck driver in Communist-run Cuba, overcoming poverty, prejudice and politics to become a global ballet legend, write a best-selling memoir and create his own dance company was not enough.
The 45-year-old, who won fame as a teen for his athleticism and virtuosity, this week presented a movie about his rags-to-riches life at Havana’s annual film fest that moved audiences to laugh, weep and thunderously applaud.
“This is a Cuban story, so it’s not my story only,” Acosta said in an interview with Reuters.
“Yuli” uniquely blends a fictionalized account of Acosta’s life based on his memoir “No Way Home” with archive footage of the news and him dancing, and original choreographies representing chapters of his past.
More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cuban-ballet-icon-carlos-acosta-stars-biopic-yuli-gets-goya-n947496