Diego Luna joins cast of 'Milk' l 18 January 2008

Diego Luna

Jack Lira

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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