Diego Luna is among the the largest star within the galaxy far, distant. His function in Andor, obtainable with a Disney+ subscription, is broadly thought to be probably the greatest items of your complete Star Wars franchise. It’s made Luna a extra excessive profile actor, and it’s helped him (largely) break away from being supplied the identical form of film roles repeatedly.
Diego Luna not too long ago participated in a roundtable dialogue for THR that included the likes of Walton Goggins, Eddie Redmayne, Jeffrey Wright, Adam Scott and Cooper Koch. He informed the group how, previous to being forged in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he was solely supplied roles as drug sellers. Luna defined…
Earlier than Star Wars, the one tasks I’d get supplied could be drug sellers. After which I might be the great drug supplier and never the vicious one however nonetheless a drug supplier. As a result of the system wasn’t even sending messages of, like, ‘Sure, you would discover a option to be your self and nonetheless work in these tasks that you simply’re taking a look at and hoping to see your self mirrored in.
Lots of people doubtless turned conscious of Diego Luna for his function in Narcos: Mexico, the place he did, in actual fact, play a drug lord. Whereas the shift within the roles being supplied to Diego Luna might have coincided with Star Wars, he doesn’t credit score the franchise solely with altering his profession. As an alternative, he thinks there’s been a bigger shift in the best way the leisure world works that enables the viewers to be in additional management of demanding what they need to see. The actor continued…
However I do assume that’s modified, and the intermediary between the viewers and us isn’t there anymore. There’s no man with a cigar saying, ‘You! You’re gonna be a star, boy.’ Individuals simply click on now, and all of the sudden it’s like, ‘Shit, they’re watching a Mexican present.’ You might be as distant as you’ll be able to from the system, and the system will go and seek for you if there’s a necessity to listen to your story.
Whereas the trendy leisure panorama, particularly the recognition of streaming, has arguably had some robust unfavorable impacts, akin to on theatrical exhibition, there are different ways in which streaming has actually modified issues for the higher. The worldwide attain of most streaming platforms means audiences all around the world can watch exhibits and flicks from wherever, and it offers the flexibility to see performers in several methods.
All this being mentioned, it apparently hasn’t ended the limitless stream of provides to Diego Luna to play drug sellers. It’s simply that now he doesn’t really feel obligated to take the roles just because they’re supplied. He is aware of there are roles on the market that shall be extra of what he needs to be doing, not merely what others inform him he must be doing. Luna says…
Oh, I nonetheless get loads of drug sellers. (Laughter.) It’s simply I’m not in search of what they need me to play. I can search for the stuff I need to do. It’s that freedom that comes with understanding that folks at present care about specificity. I keep in mind being requested, ‘Are you going to scrub up your accent?’ That’s not a part of the dialog anymore. However once I was 20, it was like, ‘Man, you’re nice, and in the event you work together with your accent, you’ll be doing what this particular person or that particular person is doing.’ And also you go, ‘Why would I like to try this? That is what makes me distinctive.’
Diego Luna will subsequent be seen within the upcoming movie adaptation of the musical Kiss of the Spider Girl with Jennifer Lopez. It actually received’t be the identical outdated drug supplier function.