Venezuelan actress Maria Conchita Alonso is known for being an outspoken critic of the president of her country, Hugo Chavez, but now she’s putting that her politics aside (or perhaps drawing from them) to portray a Chavez supporter in an upcoming movie:

“It is not going to be very difficult to play a Chavista,” she told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Washington. “You know, love and hate are very close to each other.”

The film, “Two Minutes of Hate,” is to include real footage of Chavez’s speeches and his supporters firing guns from a bridge when chaos erupted at a large opposition march that led up to a short-lived 2002 coup.

According to AP, Alonso calls Chavez a “communist dictator” for his decision to take Venezuela’s oldest television network, RCTV, off the air.

Since Chavez and his antics are such a hot topic these days, let’s hope this does something for Maria Conchita’s dead career.

Via / Yahoo! Entertainment