Diego Luna says he was solely supplied drug seller roles earlier than Star Wars

Diego Luna opened up about being typecast in Hollywood earlier than he arrived in a galaxy far, distant, revealing throughout a current roundtable that he was solely supplied drug seller tasks previous to Star Wars.

“Earlier than Star Wars, the one tasks I’d get supplied could be drug sellers,” the Andor star mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter‘s drama actors roundtable alongside Jeffrey Wright, Walton Goggins, Adam Scott, Cooper Koch, and Eddie Redmayne. “After which I could possibly be the good drug seller and never the vicious one however nonetheless a drug seller.”

“As a result of the system wasn’t even sending messages of, like, ‘Sure, you may discover a approach to be your self and nonetheless work in these tasks that you just’re and hoping to see your self mirrored in,'” Luna continued. “However I do suppose that’s modified, and the intermediary between the viewers and us will not be there anymore. There’s no man with a cigar saying, ‘You! You’re gonna be a star, boy.'”

Luna added, “Individuals simply click on now, and out of the blue it’s like, ‘Shit, they’re watching a Mexican present.’ You could be as distant as you possibly can from the system, and the system will go and seek for you if there’s a necessity to listen to your story.”

When requested about the kind of roles he bought now, post-Star Wars, Luna quipped with fun, “Oh, I nonetheless get a variety of drug sellers,” including, “It’s simply I’m not on the lookout for 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 in the present day care about specificity.”

He recalled as soon as being requested if he was “going to scrub up” his accent, including, “That’s not a part of the dialog anymore.” Luna mentioned, “However after 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 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.'”

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Luna made his Star Wars debut within the 2016 movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, starring as Alliance intelligence officer Cassian Andor reverse Felicity Jones’ Jyn Erso. He reprised the function for Tony Gilroy’s acclaimed sequence Andor, centered on the character’s adolescence and the formation of the Revolt.

The star, who broke out along with his function in Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también, final starred as a drug lord on the 2018 drama sequence Narcos: Mexico, taking part in Guadalajara Cartel co-founder Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the crucial notorious drug kingpins of the Nineteen Eighties. He has since diversified his portfolio with Hulu’s boxing miniseries La Máquina and the upcoming musical drama Kiss of the Spider Lady.