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Mexican actor
Diego Luna has joined the cast
of director Gus Van Sant's drama
Milk, which stars Sean
Penn as gay rights activist and former San Francisco politician
Harvey Milk. Luna is playing Jack Lira, one of Milk's supporters
as well as his lover. He joins a cast that also includes
Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch,
James Franco, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, and Stephen Spinella. The biopic will tell Milk's story as the first openly gay
elected official in America, voted to San Francisco's city
supervisors’ board in 1977. The following year, both he and
Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by another city
supervisor, Dan White.
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