For “New Order” star Diego Boneta, Michel Franco’s TIFF entry is a first for many reasons. Mainly, it’s his first Mexican film — previously, he had been told by the Mexican film industry that he wasn’t “Mexican enough” to star in Mexican films.
“This is a special one for me because it’s my first Mexican movie,” Boneta told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven. “Being from Mexico, and having moved here almost 14 years ago, my career didn’t take the conventional path of doing Mexican films and then going to the States. It was quite the opposite — my first film was in the U.S. with ‘Rock of Ages.’ The Mexican film industry said that I didn’t look Mexican enough to be in a Mexican film until Michel came along.”
He also said that Franco had called him to tell him that he wrote a part specifically for Boneta in his new film,...
“This is a special one for me because it’s my first Mexican movie,” Boneta told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven. “Being from Mexico, and having moved here almost 14 years ago, my career didn’t take the conventional path of doing Mexican films and then going to the States. It was quite the opposite — my first film was in the U.S. with ‘Rock of Ages.’ The Mexican film industry said that I didn’t look Mexican enough to be in a Mexican film until Michel came along.”
He also said that Franco had called him to tell him that he wrote a part specifically for Boneta in his new film,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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