{"id":2295322,"date":"2026-02-23T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295322"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:19:38","slug":"bad-bunny-set-for-first-lead-acting-role-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bad-bunny-set-for-first-lead-acting-role-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny set for first lead acting role. Here’s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny<\/u><\/a> is rumoured to soon be taking a leading role in a film after a couple of minor acting credits.<\/p>\n

Following the 31-year-old\u2019s historic Super Bowl halftime show<\/u><\/a> performance, Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, has hit the mainstream public consciousness, taking his stardom to a new level in what has been a landmark year.<\/p>\n

And, it seems the newly crowned Grammys winner<\/u><\/a> (for Album of the Year) isn\u2019t content with stopping at music, as he has landed his first lead role in a movie after small roles in movies Bullet Train, Happy Gilmor 2 and Caught Stealing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything we know about Bad Bunny\u2019s newest career move.<\/p>\n

What is the movie?<\/h5>\n

Bad Bunny has landed a role in the upcoming historical epic movie, Porto Rico, based on his home country of Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n

At the time of its announcement in 2023, the film was described as being based on the life of Jos\u00e9 Maldonado Rom\u00e1n, a late 19th-century Puerto Rican revolutionary, known as \u00c1guila Blanca, who fought against colonialism. <\/p>\n

Porto Rico is to be directed by the rapper Ren\u00e9 \u201cResidente\u201d P\u00e9rez Joglar. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have dreamed of making a film about my country since I was a child. Puerto Rico\u2019s true history has always been surrounded by controversy,\u201d Residente said. \u201cThis film is a reaffirmation of who we are \u2014 told with the intensity and honesty that our history deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who else will star in the movie?<\/h5>\n

Among the main cast, other names include acting powerhouses Viggo Mortensen, Edward Norton and Javier Bardem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis film sits in a tradition of films we deeply love, from The Godfather to Gangs of New York, that both thrill us with visceral drama and iconic characters and eras while also forcing us to face up to the shadow story under the American narrative of idealism,\u201d Norton said. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody knows what a poet of language and rhythm Ren\u00e9 is. Now they\u2019re going to see what a visual visionary he is as well. And bringing him and Bad Bunny together to tell the true story of Puerto Rico\u2019s roots is going to be like a flame finding the stick of dynamite that\u2019s been waiting for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, an Oscar-winning director and producer, will also executive produce the project.<\/p>\n

The release date for the project is as yet unknown.<\/p>\n

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Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny is rumoured to soon be taking a leading role in a film after a couple of minor acting credits. Following the 31-year-old\u2019s historic Super Bowl halftime show performance, Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, has hit the mainstream public consciousness, taking his stardom to a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[31785,30802,22020],"class_list":["post-2295322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-acting","tag-bad-bunny","tag-movie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bad-Bunny-set-for-first-lead-acting-role-Heres-what.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295324,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295322\/revisions\/2295324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}