BENICIO DEL TORO - DEL TORO: 'CHE GUEVARA WAS A WARRIOR, LIKE BATMAN'

DEL TORO: 'CHE GUEVARA WAS A WARRIOR, LIKE BATMAN'

Oscar winner BENICIO DEL TORO has become such a big fan of ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA after playing the revolutionary in director STEVEN SODERBERGH's four-hour epic, he's keen to defend the leader from his critics.
The Traffic star spent months reading up on Guevara and is now convinced Che was "a warrior" with a very bad reputation.
He says, "I remember Che being included in a TV show that showed pictures of terrorists. I was like, 'Why isn't (President Richard) Nixon there for the Vietnam war?' You'd have to put a lot of pictures of other people there before you'd put Che's."
Del Toro tells Latina magazine he thinks the revolutionary was just like Batman: "We tell stories about Batman, and he was a type of Batman. No one can deny that he was trying to stop man exploiting man. Whether he was successful or not...
"Two people who I met learned how to read and write because of him. It was really moving... The most revealing thing was that he (Guevara) was a human being."