Diego Luna is the title character in some of the acclaimed TV collection of the previous few years with “Andor” — to not point out that the Tony Gilroy-created present is without doubt one of the most acclaimed “Star Wars” tasks within the historical past of the franchise.
However that doesn’t imply Luna nonetheless doesn’t get provided roles as drug sellers. Fortunately, although, his years with “Star Wars” relationship again to 2016’s “Rogue One” have resulted in drug sellers not being the one sort of position he’s provided.
“Earlier than ‘Star Wars,’ the one tasks I’d get provided could be drug sellers,” Luna instructed The Hollywood Reporter, as a part of their drama actors roundtable. “After which I might be the great drug vendor and never the vicious one however nonetheless a drug vendor. As a result of the system wasn’t even sending messages of, like, ‘Sure, you might discover a method 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.’ However I do suppose that’s modified, and the intermediary between the viewers and us just isn’t there anymore. There’s no man with a cigar saying, ‘You! You’re gonna be a star, boy.’ Folks simply click on now, and immediately it’s like, ‘Shit, they’re watching a Mexican present.’ You may be as far-off 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.”
However to make clear, Luna then added, “Oh, I nonetheless get a variety of drug sellers. 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 this time care about specificity.”
Luna performed the “boss of all bosses” and founding father of the Guadalajara Cartel Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo for 2 seasons of “Narcos: Mexico” from 2018 to 2020. The actor additionally recalled how usually he’d be instructed to lose his Mexican accent with a purpose to play a greater variety of roles earlier in his profession.
“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 if you happen to work along with your accent, you’ll be doing what this individual or that individual is doing.’ And also you go, ‘Why would I like to try this? That is what makes me distinctive.’”
Fortunately, the powers that be at Lucasfilm agreed. Listening to a Mexican accent from a member of the Insurgent Alliance in “Rogue One” was quietly revolutionary in its personal method. Typically leaning extra into how you might be can carry higher specificity and depth to a personality. And TIME journal definitely agreed just lately, after they named Luna to the TIME 100.