![]() I think people are jerked by the darkness. It was a scene that shocked them and probably put the film into a different angle. It was the scene that scored the highest. Why don’t we do both versions? We did ours first. So his decision to wipe the table, in my opinion, was the way to go. You just do a little more work where you concentrate a little bit harder a little bit more discipline.ĭidn’t you shoot two different versions of one particularly violent scene? They’re motivators in a way because I don’t care what anybody says as soon as you get in front of a camera, working with a director you consider good, you’re going to try to impress them. Josh Brolin and Emily Blunt, I’ve known for a long time. Roger Deakins is one of the reasons I’d decided to do the film too. I don’t remember all my movies, but I don’t think I’ve played that character driven by revenge in any of them. I think I’ve played almost every angle in the drug war world. I watch a lot of Netflix because they have a great amount of documentaries, and I love documentaries.You have a lot of experience in this genre as an actor. Actually, I thought 13 Reasons Why was pretty good, and there’s one show on Amazon that’s awesome too - a comedy called Catastrophe. I really like The Staircase, Making of a Murderer, Ozark. I didn’t get rich off the series (laughs) but it was a tough shoot. One is a big stage with the best air-conditioning, lighting and green screen, and then I was suddenly running in the desert. It was good, I had a lot of fun on the Narcos set, but it was a culture shock. I had a day off before going right into Narcos. You started shooting this immediately after Ant-Man. This has been fun, because you get to know the person a little more. On this show, we didn’t get to meet too much but I think I’ve got to know him a little better in this press tour, having dinners with him and Eric. So, it was different because he was telling me what to do for five months. Yeah, I’ve known him for a while but at the same time, I only knew him as a director. You and Diego Luna have known each other a while. Also, while half of the people on the show are Narcos, the other half are trying to stop them. At the same time, there are a lot of Spanish shows that are about good people. The fact of the matter is this does happen and it’s not typecasting when it really happens, especially when you’re using real names and places this one is based on true stories. In this political climate, is there a worry about the show typecasting or stereotyping a country? Hopefully, my dad will see it and feel proud. But I liked the fact that we were able to be in a half-Spanish show. I know that it is Narcos, it’s meant for entertainment and the subject matter is what people want to see right now, and that’s cool. I don’t think I spoke English until I was about five years old. It does, and it makes me feel good about the world, in a way. ![]() That’s the true story about him.Īs a Mexican-American, what does it mean for you to be speaking Spanish on camera for a huge show that goes to over 190 countries? Does that have personal significance? He took it upon himself, and got lucky a couple of times but then got unlucky as well. It kept eating away at him and he just got mad and decided to do something about it himself. His motivation was that he just saw things going wrong that weren’t supposed to happen, was telling people that they weren’t supposed to happen, but they kept ignoring him. I spoke to his wife Mika for quite a while and she helped me understand Kiki. But psychologically, why was he so lonely? I needed to find out what made Kiki tick, and what was his motivation. When you read the character on paper, you feel that he was very focused and lonely. What kind of research did you do to get a sense of him? I blame my “binge-itis” on Narcos! (Laughs) I watched the other 18 episodes in a week-and-a-half. He was always really good with me, answering all my questions. We always talked and had an ongoing conversation. I thought it was a great show, so called back to see if they were serious. Eric Newman told me about Kiki Camarena and I thought it was really cool, so I watched two episodes immediately. I have a 10-year-old kid who was six-and-a-half at the time, so I watched a lot of Toy Story, Pixar and Disney films.
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