Tonatiuh Stars Alongside Jennifer Lopez in Sundance Hit ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’

Name: Tonatiuh Sundance project: “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” a rare big-name director musical drama in the sea of small indies at Sundance. The movie, from “Chicago” and “Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon, is a screen adaptation of the Terrence McNally theater production, which in turn was based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig. The film stars Tonatiuh alongside Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna, and was met with a standing ovation and immediate Oscar buzz when it premiered at the festival on Saturday. Notable past credits: The actor, who goes by just his first name, was recently seen in the Netflix holiday season thriller “Carry On” with Jason Bateman, Taron Edgerton and Sofia Carson. “Kiss of the Spider Woman”: The story is set in an Argentinian prison in the early ’80s, following Molina (Tonatiuh), a gay hairdresser serving a sentence for corrupting a minor. Tonatiuh was familiar with the show, and upon reading the film’s script immediately connected to it.  “Molina, one of the characters I play, he felt like a loser in life, and he’s living in an authoritarian government that wrongfully imprisoned him, which is a metaphor for the imprisonment that he feels inside of his own body and inside of his own culture.

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