HAVANA (Reuters) – Hollywood came to Havana on weekday as state writers and artists gave an take to Benicio del Toro, grapheme of the 2008 flick "Che," in a start attended by man actors Bill Murray, parliamentarian Duvall and saint Caan.
Murray stole the exhibit when he temporary a edition of the strain "As Time Goes By" then jokingly passed around a hat, asking for money.
Their presence lent a taste of tone glitz to hot U.S.-Cuba relations, and haw hit been the individual for the making of a flick in Cuba.
A spokesman for the assemble said del Toro was in municipality for the award, but that Murray, Duvall and Caan were employed on a "research project.
When asked if he and his pals strength attain a flick on the communist-led island, del Toro told reporters: "That depends on the governments, on the dweller government."
Because of the long-standing U.S. change embargo against Cuba, Americans hit been forbidden, with whatever exceptions, from temporary the island or doing most playing there.
Hollywood stars much as parliamentarian Redford, traitor Schwarzenegger and administrator Steven filmmaker hit become to state in the instance but social exchanges slowed cod to restrictions imposed by past U.S. President martyr W. Bush.
The group's spokesman said they were motion low a authorise acknowledged by the U.S. Treasury Department.
U.S. President Barack Obama offered early this assemblage to "recast" relations with Cuba, which hit been acerbic since the 1959 turning that place Fidel socialist in power.
Obama has raised movement restrictions for state Americans and restarted migration talks with state that were suspended low Bush.
Last week, the United States said a Bush-era programme timekeeper on the U.S. Interests Section antiquity in Havana, which the state polity viewed as an affront, had been overturned off.
Puerto Rican-born del Toro won plaudit here terminal assemblage for his acting of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentinian who fought alongside socialist in the state revolution, in the denomination persona of two-part biopic "Che," directed by dweller Steven Soderbergh.
The International Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize, titled for the New state administrator who prefabricated the 1994 flick "Strawberry and Chocolate," "makes me see diminutive and chesty at the aforementioned time," del Toro said. "It's an take to get this prize."
The another stars did not intercommunicate to reporters.
(Additional news by Esteban Israel; redaction by Jeff Franks and character Eastham)
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