Bogota native Catalina Sandino Moreno steals ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

When Catalina Sandino Moreno, the Colombian, Oscar-nominated actress of “Maria, Full of Grace” fame, got a call from director Mike Newell about his new film, she found he was nearby, in Spain. Newell wanted her to audition for the supporting role of flirty Hildebrande in his version of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s epic love story, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

The British director, known for such hits as “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” was in Spain casting “Cholera’s” mostly Latina cast. The film stars Javier Bardem (also currently starring in “No Country for Old Men”) as a man who waits 50 years for the love of his life.”*

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