2 Hearts is a 2020 American romantic drama film directed by Lance Hool and starring Jacob Elordi, Adan Canto, Tiera Skovbye and Radha Mitchell. It is based on the true story of Leslie and Jorge Bacardi and Christopher Gregory.
Yes, most of 2 Hearts is based on the true story of Jorge Bacardi and Christopher Gregory, and its storylines were inspired by a book written by Chris' father, Eric, called All My Tomorrows: A Story of Tragedy, Transplant, and Hope.
Jorge Bolívar in real life is Jorge Bacardi, heir to the world famous beverage brand. He and his wife Leslie helped to finance the film, but sadly Jorge died in September 2020, just before the film was released.
It offers long-term housing to oncology and transplant patients being treated at the clinic. Thanks to Christopher's donation, Jorge was able to live until he was 76 years old. He sadly passed away in September 2020. 2 Hearts is available to watch now on Netflix.
Sam was loosely inspired by Chris Gregory's real-life girlfriend who the book refers to as Jenn. Chris and Jenn had been dating since the previous October. Chris Gregory's girlfriend in the movie, Sam (Tiera Skovbye), was loosely inspired by the real Chris's girlfriend, who is referred to as Jenn in the book.
Back to the real-life story, Chris tragically passed away from a brain aneurysm aged 19. In the film, he married Sam and they had a child, but this didn't happen in real life. His organs were later donated to five different people, including Jorge, who had a life-threatening disease called primary ciliary dyskinesia.
The donor was Christopher Mark Gregory, a nineteen-year-old student at Loyola University in New Orleans, who suffered a fatal brain aneurysm. They had an emotional meeting with Christopher's parents, brothers, and other family members at Gregory's home in Baltimore.
After Jorge and Leslie get married, they have problems conceiving children. (In real life, Jorge was diagnosed with primary ciliary dyskinesia when he was in his 50s, but prior to that, he was misdiagnosed as having cystic fibrosis.) Chris and Sam's romance is more carefree than Jorge and Leslie's.
SHANKEN: Tell me about the branches of the Bacardi family. BACARDI: Don Facundo Bacardi Masso had four children, and hence they represent the four branches of the family. SHANKEN: How many Bacardi family members are there who are shareholders? BACARDI: We have about 900 family members, including spouses.
Jorge Bacardi, whose family has manufactured rum and other spirits for 150 years, suffered since childhood with primary ciliary dyskinesia, a debilitating lung disease that nearly ended his life. A double-lung transplant at Mayo's Florida campus in 2008 enabled him to take his first full breath of air at age 64.
Chris seemingly survives and married Sam, becomes a firefighter, and has a son. However, it's revealed that was all a dream, as, in reality, Chris died. But his death is the gift of life for Jorge, who receives Chris's lungs, which saves him.
To my understanding, the series appears to have taken a few creative liberties with the actual story, (it was a telenovela after all) but it ultimately remained true to the actual history of Latin America's great liberator Simon Bolivar.
Bolívar and del Toro, aged 18 and 21 respectively, were married in Madrid on 26 May 1802. The couple boarded the San Ildefonso in La Coruña on 15 June and sailed for La Guaira, where they arrived on 12 July. They settled in Caracas, where del Toro fell ill and died of yellow fever on 22 January 1803.
Chris' parents send a response, then they and Sam meet with Jorge and Leslie. The final scene shows Chris on the beach as in the opening scene, looking towards Jorge and Leslie's yacht with Sam and his parents on it.
A few days later, Chris collapsed while hanging out with friends. He was nineteen years old, and a freshman at Loyola University New Orleans. He was rushed to Tulane University Medical Center and diagnosed with a ruptured brain aneurysm.
This is the story of Hannah Clark, an ordinary girl from Mountain Ash, South Wales with an extraordinary story of survival. Suffering from a serious heart condition at two years old, it would take the work of eminent surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub to save her life.
Founded in Cuba in 1862 by Facundo Bacardí Massó, Bacardi Limited has been family-owned for seven generations, and employs more than 8,000 people with sales in approximately 170 countries.
The settlement was announced in a press release and called for an affiliate to buy out JAY-Z's 50% stake of the cognac company, leaving Bacardi owning 75.01% of the rest of the business. The rapper will still retain “a significant ownership stake” through his SCLiquor LLC company.
The film is based on the real-life story of Jorge Bacardi — of the Bacardi Rum dynasty — and Christopher Gregory, an organ donor who tragically and suddenly passed away at the age of 19 from a brain aneurysm. Christopher's organs were donated to five people, one of them being Jorge.
Bacardi, loving husband of Leslie Bacardi, passed. away peacefully alongside his wife of 46 years, at their. residence in Lyford Cay at the age of 76. Jorge, better known as “TJ,” the youngest of four.
Jorge is predeceased by his brothers Joaquin and Alberto and survived by his sister Carmen, wife Leslie, 17 nieces and nephews, 43 grand nieces and nephews and one great grand nice.
Eric Gregory, his father, wrote this book to chronicle this miracle of science and how meeting these recipients of his son's organs filled a special need in their hearts that few outside the organ donation community can understand.
His father, Eric Gregory, would recall the wisecrack years later for two reasons: First, it captured his son's sense of humor. And second, it was tragically prescient. Just days after he made the remark, Chris died suddenly from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
They participated in a ceremony that included speeches by Mayo Chief Executive Officer William Rupp and Eric and Grace Gregory, the parents of Jorge Bacardi's 19-year-old lung donor, Christopher Gregory.
