Chile miner happy to be played by Banderas in film

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he’s playing couldn’t be happier.

Mike Medavoy, producer of The 33, announced at the Cannes Film Festival that Banderas will play Mario Sepulveda, who known as “Super Mario”, became the public face of the miners.

The film will dramatise the cave-in at a mine in Chile’s Atacama desert and the globally televised rescue of the miners that mesmerised millions.