--- title: 'PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba': See Giovanni Ribisi in a New Clip description: "PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba," starring Giovanni Ribisi and Adrian Sparks, is the first Hollywood film shot in Cuba since the Revolution. canonical: https://time.com/4289216/giovanni-ribisi-hemingway-cuba-movie/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-13T16:38:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:38:33.035Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Giovanni Ribisi Hangs With Hemingway in First Hollywood Film Shot in Cuba Since 1959 og:description: "PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba," starring Giovanni Ribisi and Adrian Sparks, is the first Hollywood film shot in Cuba since the Revolution. og:url: https://time.com/4289216/giovanni-ribisi-hemingway-cuba-movie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fe2682bacec94f/69888ea12dce014c629e89ad/giovanni-ribisi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Portrait Studio - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Giovanni Ribisi Hangs With Hemingway in First Hollywood Film Shot in Cuba Since 1959 twitter:description: "PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba," starring Giovanni Ribisi and Adrian Sparks, is the first Hollywood film shot in Cuba since the Revolution. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fe2682bacec94f/69888ea12dce014c629e89ad/giovanni-ribisi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Giovanni Ribisi Hangs With Hemingway in First Hollywood Film Shot in Cuba Since 1959 > Sponsored content. 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Walker/VarietyTFF2015/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival)Andrew H. Walker/VarietyTFF2015—2015 Andrew H. Walker/VarietyTFF2015  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 13, 2016 4:38 PM UTC It’s been more than half a century since a Hollywood movie was filmed in Cuba, so perhaps it’s only fitting that the first one shot there since the Cuban Revolution would be about an American who adopted the country as his home: Ernest Hemingway. _PAPA_ _: Hemingway in Cuba_ tells the story of a young Miami journalist, played by Giovanni Ribisi, spending time with the aging writer in and around Havana in the late 1950s. And although the late Denne Bart Petitclerc penned the autobiographical script more than a decade ago, getting it made against the backdrop of the [U.S. embargo against Cuba](http://time.com/4076438/us-cuba-embargo-1960/) required years of dedicated effort by director Bob Yari. The clip above offers a look at Ribisi’s character Ed Myers, a stand-in for Petitclerc, after a fan letter to his literary idol is met with an invitation to come to Cuba to share in some of Hemingway’s favorite pastimes: fishing and drinking. This version of Hemingway, played by lookalike Adrian Sparks—who previously played the writer in a one-man European stage production—is paternal and even jolly, though the film’s [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC130UBgtfk) suggests that there’s a thornier, more volatile man not far beneath the surface. **MORE:** [**7 Things to Know Before You Visit Cuba**](http://time.com/4245768/cuba-vacation-advice/) Shooting a 1950s-set movie in Havana nearly six decades later, it turns out, has some advantages. Because the embargo restricted the import of American goods to the island, much of the country has maintained the appearance of being somewhat stuck in time—not least of all thanks to its 1950s-model cars. This allowed for the majority of the film to be shot on location rather than on artificial sets. The movie arrives at a moment of [loosening](http://time.com/4267933/barack-obama-cuba-speech-transcript-full-text/) [tensions](http://time.com/4228874/obama-coolidge-cuba/) between the United States and Cuba, and one which may well see, along with an increase in American visitors to the country, a renewed interest in making movies there. _PAPA_ _: Hemingway in Cuba_, which costars Minka Kelly as Ed Myers’ colleague and Joely Richardson as Mary Hemingway, hits theaters on April 29. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4289216/giovanni-ribisi-hemingway-cuba-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4289216/giovanni-ribisi-hemingway-cuba-movie/"},"headline":"Giovanni Ribisi Hangs With Hemingway in First Hollywood Film Shot in Cuba Since 1959","datePublished":"2016-04-13T16:38:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:38:33.035Z","description":"Adrian Sparks plays the literary icon in PAPA: Hemingway in Cuba","url":"https://time.com/4289216/giovanni-ribisi-hemingway-cuba-movie/","keywords":["movies","Cuba topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fe2682bacec94f/69888ea12dce014c629e89ad/giovanni-ribisi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fe2682bacec94f/69888ea12dce014c629e89ad/giovanni-ribisi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Portrait Studio - Day 3","caption":"Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Portrait Studio - Day 3","creditText":"Andrew H. 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