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Paseo de la Reforma Avenue in Mexico City continues to demonstrate the talent of its craftsmen, two-meter catrinas, flower-based works, fiberglass and paintings for the Day of the Dead. In October, the Morelia Film Festival and other cultural events began, but a mural from the "Narcos" series was also unveiled, this time showing the other side of Mexico, in the 80s, when the young Joaquín & # 39; El Chapo Guzmán was a circle employee of the so-called "Chief of chefs", Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
"I think this part of the story is not known and that seems to make the season 4 so crucial," explained his protagonist. Diego Luna, at the beginning of the shoot. The actor had come to do Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he was closer to his native Mexico than to Hollywood. In interviews or in their social networks, he thinks and questions politics until today. "(More than 20 years ago), they made us believe that we were nothing to be the first world, and there I had to wake up in many ways."
In Mexico, the left has won after almost eight decades. In the street, we talk about changes, others insist that the task is difficult. They say that it is not a fiction, that in other states of the country, there are still children who repeat that they "want to be drug traffickers". Although the first seasons have focused on Colombia and Pablo EscobarThey also talked about origins and links with other countries: Mexico and Peru. On performance, drug trafficking and the relationship with political power, the roundtable was discussed. The Republic Tuesday, with the Aztec media.
What hit you the most at Felix Gallardo and what did you admire?
(Smiles) Not knowing much about him, that's what attracted me the most because there was a chance of construction and freedom during the process … because I panic the processes in which you do something so well known and so characteristic, it's almost like hiding and playing imitation. Well, I do not understand these things. There are people who have grown up imitating, they are superbiens, they make their voices heard, they walk, they wear whiskers; I like to interpret them from my position, from me. One thing that impressed me was the ability I had to create this scaffolding, this structure that seemed unbreakable, then it fell and allowed us to live in the chaos we are experiencing today. hui. He was called an entrepreneur and that appealed to me, I started to think, "then you have all these trade codes," and that has many nuances. He was able to love anyone because he was able to put everyone at the same table.
As an actor and citizen, what was the filming process – before the elections – of the story of a policeman turned narco and friend of a governor?
It's complicated to live in Mexico! Every day we seem to be bottoming out and hope not to stay there long. Let's say that something I wanted to accomplish – or which I wanted to be part of – was to try to bring the story to the gray of what's going on. I started to see what was happening in our series on violence and drug trafficking about our history. In general, I find myself very often with black and white, a very dangerous and omnipresent speech. When I sat down with Eric (the producer), he spoke to me about all the gray ones, he said to me, "It's impossible for us to keep talking about chasing the bad guys and we're not talking not to drive out the high spheres of this country, "the business community and the most involved, which is the political class, because the political class did not react, it was their business. Families have become millionaires and all of a sudden we pretend to make police and thief movies, that's dangerous. What I liked in this series is that even though its genesis goes back to the United States and France (the producers), they were ready to talk about the "cochinero" on the other side of the border and ask at least what "chingados" to DEA and why they worked that way. I think it's essential to see things like this.
Was there a time when you justified your character?
No, no … But for me, it was very important to know why no one had betrayed him, Rafael Caro (fugitive) never spoke of him in jail, there was something out there, it looked like friendship, loyalty. I had few signs because I said, "I will not question anyone, I will not see it, I'm not interested". And then, it was not a justification, I see this project from afar and I say that I do not want to be part of this world, it seems brutal and sad that somebody can choose that as life. But you must also understand why there are so many.
What do you expect from the fight against drugs? The season begins (November 16 on Netflix) two weeks before a turning point.
We plan like that! In fact, he's won (Ricardo) Anaya it was coming down (laughs). There is Canada, look at what 'chingón & # 39; made. Although we do not understand that it is a security problem, a public health problem, that we are not decriminalizing it and that we are eliminating stigma, as long as there is a market, it is a problem that we will not get rid of. not. But when they ask me: "What do you think the series will bring to the position of this government?", I note with deep sadness that no one opposes the Homeland Security Act and that the The idea that the army continues in the street seems perfect to them. We need to reinvent the strategy in this country, and it seems that no one wants to do it and it saddens me a lot, I do not think this series can help anything. I see this series more as a chance to put a topic of conversation in places where they do not want to know who we are and why we live. If one day I go to Germany and England and I see someone who, before putting a line of cocaine, think a little about the origin of cocaine, well, we "fuck" with the series! I respect all opinions except one: "So, do not breastfeed, stop telling these stories and tell great stories." I am openly against, because the only thing we can not stop doing is to tell these stories. 250,000 dead, forgive me, there is no comparable dictatorship in Latin America, nor the loss of American soldiers in Vietnam. Please, if we have to talk, it is the question that should concern us the most.
What did you learn, did you change jobs twenty years later?
Yes, note that he had no idea of the extent to which the state had understood that its activity was drug trafficking. I thought the distribution of the budget, the stolen money – the stolen flights – the concessions and everything else – was his business. And when I started doing research here, I said, "Oh no, that was the showcase of the company and that's why they are so angry that others have done business with the showcase ", because before we had all understood and justified:" negotiate, you can not face them ". But if they created it! Understand that it's brutal. That is to say, "Oh bastard, the enemy is not …", that's the one we thought of, but it's neither his head nor the one who has benefited the most … The scaffolding of all this was created by the political system of this country and because of a situation that has occurred.
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