Diego Luna: On Going From “Andor” to Argentina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman”

At one point during our discussion about his new film, Diego Luna likens the character he plays to a Matryoshka doll, the Russian wooden figures that nest within each other.

The reference is apropos for the film itself. Kiss of the Spider Woman began life as a 1976 novel by Manuel Puig, and as Luna points out, the haunting story of two vastly different men who form an unlikely bond when imprisoned together has spawned various iterations.

Getting Caught in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” Production Designer Scott Chambliss’s Perfect Web for Jennifer Lopez

Production designer Scott Chambliss is known in Hollywood for big tentpole movies— Star Trek, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Mission: Impossible III are a few of his films—so he was a bit shocked in 2023 when writer-director Bill Condon called him about revamping Kiss of the Spider Woman as an old-fashioned MGM movie musical. Chambliss knew exactly how to win over the man who made Dreamgirls and wrote the movie version of Chicago.