The 42-year-old father of one is calling us from LA to plug Netflix’s drug-trafficking drama Narcos: Mexico, one of several projects he’s in this year (the others include 12 Strong, Ant-Man and The Wasp, A Wrinkle in Time, and the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed The Mule).Įxcept on the 1980-set Narcos: Mexico, he has the leading role - as Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, the DEA agent assigned to take down the Guadalajara Cartel run by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, played by Diego Luna.
No, this Michael Peña is closer to the straight-faced everyman he portrayed in Shooter and Crash, kinda serious but still approachable. How subdued? Let’s just say that he’s light years away from the hyperactive, extremely chatty Luis in Ant-Man. “You can’t believe what people would do to make a little bit of money.” The movie, which also stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia and Taissa Farmiga, opens here Jan 10.Ĩ DAYS is on the phone with a very subdued Michael Peña. “I love stories because they are so unbelievable,” says Peña. In this based-on-a-true-story crime thriller, Eastwood stars as a lonely and broke geriatric forced to transport drugs for the Mexican drug cartel to pay off his debts. Peña plays another DEA agent in the upcoming The Mule, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Because we don’t focus on treating the illness we only treat the symptoms.”
That’s why the United States is the largest market for cocaine in the world. By working on the demand, we have to focus on addiction. Instead of working on the supply, we have to work on the demand. You can only battle it as a healthcare crisis, which is what it is. On America’s war on drugs, Newman says, “The reality is that we are not going to win the drug war - you can’t win a drug war. Peña with Diego Luna and showrunner Eric Newman in a special portrait taken at Marina Bay Sands on Nov 8. “Otherwise, I wouldn’t it,” says Diego Luna. There’s a lot of beautiful places in Mexico.” It’s safe working in Mexico, says Diego Luna. I lived in Polanco, a really nice part of Mexico.
You’re expecting gunfights every 10 seconds - there was none of that. I’ve shot there before but never in Mexico City. “Before I got there, I thought it was going to be crazy. The rest of the shoot, thankfully, went on without incident. Before production on Narcos: Mexico started, a crew member was killed while scouting for locations in an area where gang wars are rife.
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