![]() It has changed because of this violence, because how long this violence has been ramping up, and in the last 12 years since Felipe Calderón decided to have a frontal war with drug trafficking in Mexico. The big part of recreating Mexico in the 80s is the sadness that comes to me, remembering how free the Mexico that I grew up in was, and how it is not the Mexico my kids are growing up in. They are victims of this system.Ĭarlos Somonte/Netflix He blames militarization for making the violence in Mexico worse. You also understand that in this show, the lead is not Kiki Camarena, I'm not the lead, the lead in this story is cocaine, and how cocaine gets to you, and the system created here. No one is just "bad" -love, jealousy, ambition, regret, all those things are there, and they have reasons, you may not agree with them, but as an actor you have to understand those reasons in order to portray a character. It's very important to not talk about things as if they were black and white, that rhetoric is getting us to a very polarized world. To me the most important part to recreate a character is to think about the context he was living in, and try to understand. He sees his character as another victim in the drug war. ![]() It was kind of cool to actually have to go back and do research to find out exactly who he was. Growing up in Mexico, you have Caro Quintero, you have Amado Carrillo, you have El Chapo, all these names, these characters that people think they know better than anyone. ![]() You’re talking about people that lived this 30 years ago-it’s not that long, you know? But said to me, "Your voice is important." And when I realized that, and that I was going to have a chance to actually be involved in what we were doing and the story we were telling and its importance, I said "Okay, okay, I'll join."Ĭarlos Somonte/Netflix Finding information about Félix Gallardo was not easy. You have an even bigger responsibility, because behind these stories there is a lot of loss, and pain. I've seen many efforts of telling the story of these people and failing badly. Let's get out of this, let's escape as soon as possible before they even work out a deal. It's one of those times where my first impulse as an actor is to say no. He was initially reluctant to accept the role. Luna talked to Esquire about playing the "Rockefeller of Marijuana," how drugs and violence have reshaped his country, and what needs to be done to fix it. "It’s crucial to understand why we’re reading what we are reading today." "We have to talk about this period of time," he tells me. And for Luna, who was born and raised in Mexico, the story is an ugly, but important one. As their paths intersect, the real beneficiaries of the narco underworld-on both sides of the border -come into better focus. Chasing him is Enrique "Kiki" Camarena (Michael Peña), a DEA agent at a time when, as the show points out, there were more female officers in the NYPD than agents in the DEA. Diego Luna stars as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel and the former boss of a guy you may have seen in the news lately. That sense of futility is palpable throughout Narcos: Mexico, now streaming on Netflix, which pulls the show's timeline all the way back to 1980 to illustrate how it all began. ![]()
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