Benicio on the Mend in Cuba

July 12 -- Actor Benicio Del Toro, who broke his wrist last month during a fight scene with Tommy Lee Jones on his new thriller, The Hunted, says he needs at least a month longer to heal before returning to work.

"I have to have this on at least four weeks," the Puerto Rican-born star said at a news conference on Wednesday, when asked about the sling on his arm. "After that, there is rehabilitation; then I can restart filming," he added.

Del Toro made the announcement while on a tour in Havana, Cuba, to promote Traffic, the acclaimed film about drug-trafficking that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and its director, Stephen Soderbergh, a Best Director Oscar.

Del Toro, Soderbergh, and Traffic's producer, Laura Bickford, have hosted free screenings of the film to the Communist-ruled island nation, which is under a U.S. embargo.

Bickford said the response from the Cuban public had been positive: "Everybody has come up and said they like it."

Del Toro spoke about the need to increase the presence of Hispanic and Latino actors in Hollywood.

"The reality is that Latinos must do it themselves," he said. "Neither the studio nor anyone else is going to do it for them."

Reuters contributed to this story.