Role in `La Bamba' rocks actor's soul // Phillips identifies with Ritchie Valens

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 26, 1987| Author: Ernest Tucker | Copyright information

Lou Diamond Phillips couldn't help feeling a personal bond with Mexican-American rocker Ritchie Valens, whom he portrays in "La Bamba," now at local theaters.

It was eerie being part of the historical portrayal in which he played a man happily unaware he was heading to tragedy, said the 25-year-old Texan. And the vibrations hit hardest the night they re-created events leading to the plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which killed Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Phillips was sca...

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