U.S.- The star of the streaming series “Diablero”, Mexican actor Horacio García Rojas, is the new antagonist of director and actor Clint Eastwood.
The actor is one of the central characters in “Cry macho”, a story that tells the journey of an old rodeo star, who helps a young man who runs away from his alcoholic family so he can enter Texas from Mexico.
García is part of the Mexican team that participates in this film, along with the actors Eduardo Minett and Natalia Traven, they make up the national film team directed by Eastwood, 90 years old.
“It was a normal casting process as I entered, when they tell you that it is a movie with that legend in the cinema you get excited, read and do a scene that apparently is not complicated, but they want to see certain things,” said the actor.
“I think they wanted someone with the ability to be a constant threat, but relaxed, then you tell your agents to give him a cookie to be there and a month later, the confirmation is received,” says the actor.
The film, set in the 70’s, will be shot in locations in New Mexico, United States, for which all the health protocols against COVID-19 have been established.
“Cry Male” will be the 42nd production Eastwood directs. His filmography includes “Mystic River”, “The Sniper”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “The Unforgivables” and “Blows of Destiny”, the latter two earning him the Oscar for Best Direction.
To express question, García Rojas indicates that skin color will not be synonymous with negativity in history.
“We are characters with shades, it is not white equal to good and dark to bad. They are all characters with shades because yes, obviously, it is something that is always in the controversy of the role of racialized individuals in the massive film industry; there are brunettes which are the hope in the film, “he says.
García Rojas has worked in the series “Narcos: México” and starred in the films “La carga” and “Morenita, el escándalo”. He began his film career in 2008 alongside Tilda Swinton (“Doctor Strange” and “Michael Clayton”), after which he has integrated productions such as “La querida del Centauro”, “Texas rising” and was recently released in theaters with “Sin origen. “.
“‘Cry macho’ would be a balm for my career and the importance of being with a film institution, one of the last living legends of cinema, immortal in his filmography”, he considers.
García Rojas joins the national actors who, in recent times, have been in leading roles in international films, among whom are Diego Luna with “Rogue One: a Star Wars story”; Eréndira Ibarra, currently filming “Matrix 4” and Joaquín Cosío in the sequel to “Suicide Squad”, to be released in 2021.
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