The new antagonist of director and actor Clint Eastwood in cinema will be Mexican and responds to the name of Horacio García Rojas, protagonist of the series “Diablero”.
The actor is one of the central characters of “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 in order to enter Texas from Mexico.
García Rojas, together with his Mexican colleagues Eduardo Minett and Natalia Traven, form the national team of the 90-year-old film directed by Eastwood.
“It was a normal process casting When I walk in, when I tell you it’s a movie with that legend in the cinema, you get excited, read and do a scene that isn’t seemingly complicated, but they want to see certain things.
“I think they wanted someone with the ability to be a constant but relaxed threat, then you tell your agents to give him a cookie to be there and a month later, you get the confirmation,” says the actor.
The film, set in the 1970s, will be filmed in locations in New Mexico, USA, for which all sanitary protocols against COVID-19.
“Cry Male” will be the 42nd production directed by Eastwood. His films include “Mystic River”, “Sniper”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “The Unforgivable” and “Blows of Destiny”, the latter two winning the Oscar for best direction.
To express the question, García Rojas indicates that skin color will not be synonymous with negativity in history.
“We are characters with nuances, white is not equal to good and dark with evil. They are all characters with nuances because yes, obviously there is something that is always in controversy over the role of racial individuals in the massive film industry; there are brunettes this is the hope in the film “, he says.
Garcia Rojas earned the show “Daffodils: México “and starred in” La carga “and”little brunette, the scandal “. He began his film career in 2008 with Tilda Swinton (“Doctor Strange” and “Michael Clayton”), after which he integrated productions such as “La querida del Centauro”, “Texas rising” and was recently in cinemas with “Without origin.” “.
“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 said.
García Rojas joins national actors who have recently starred in international films, including Diego Luna with “Rogue One: a Star Wars story”; Eréndira Ibarra, who is currently filming “Matrix 4” and Joaquín Cosío in the sequel to “Suicide Squad”, which will be released in 2021.