Casting Call: Javier as Yonni

Javier as Yonni

Best Story Ever.  Lifted from Popeater:  "For the past 69 days, Yonni Barrios, one of the thirty-three trapped miners in Chile, has played the part of doctor, monitoring his peer’s health while being stuck 2,000 feet underground. However, when he’s at sea level he fulfills the role of real-life playboy. 

Oh, Yonni!

Friends, family, and international media swarmed the site once survivors began to ascend from their home for the past two and a half months. Barrios had an extra visitor, Susana Valenzuela, his mistress who had the pleasure of meeting his wife, Marta Salinas, for the first time.  The two were introduced when Mrs. Salinas overheard Ms. Valenzuela shouting her husband’s name in to the mining hole. Needless to say, or stay, Salinas didn’t stick around to welcome her adulterous husband. Although she's grateful for his health, she was later quoted saying, '…I am a decent woman. Things are clear: it’s her or me.' Valenzuela, who’s been canoodling with Barrios for five years, is convinced she'll win this battle, claiming the two are soul mates.  Ironically, Barrios dug his own hole. When asked whom he wished to see upon arrival from The Phoenix, Barrios listed his wife and his home wrecker. That karma, it gets you every time."  We now know his wife didn't show.  In the movie version, it's a no-brainer who should play Yonni, the "Miner of Two Loves":  Javier Bardem.