1. – Warren Beatty, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, 1961. Beatty borrowed funds to get to San Juan and persuade playwright Tennessee Williams that he was the perfect Italian gigolo, Paolo di Leo. “I never worked so hard in my life.” He acquired the accent, covered his face in Man Tan, read for and won the role. Williams said Warren still came to his bedroom door in his bathrobe. “Go home to bed, Warren, you’ve got the part.” Bad news for the bisexual Cuban Milian who had previously won the part – after sex with Williams! The Cuvban Milián was a Beatty pal and fellow skirt-chaser at the Actors Studio – and sure that “Snow White (as he called Beatty) never knew they were both up for Paolo. “Warren ended up in the movie dating Mrs Stone and in real life, Tomas ended up dating Tennessee Williams.” Milián’s Mexican revolutionary leader, Tepepa, 1968, was modelled more on Beatty – than Che Guvera.
2. – Colin Blakely, Don Camillo, Italy, 1983. Milián refused to be the Communist Mayor Peppone opposite Terence Hill’s equally fiesty priest.
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