The new antagonist of director and actor Clint Eastwood in the cinema becomes Mexican, responding to the name of Horacio García Rojas, protagonist of the series “Diablero”.
The actor is one of the central characters of “To 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 so he can enter Texas from Mexico.
García Rojas, along with fellow Mexicans Eduardo Minett and Natalia Traven, make up the national team on the film directed by Eastwood, 90.
“It was a normal process casting as i came in, when they tell you it’s a movie with that legend in the cinema you get turned on, you read and you do a scene that apparently isn’t complicated, but they want to see certain things.
“I think they wanted someone with the ability to be a constant threat, but relaxed, then you tell your agents to give him a cookie to be there and a month later the confirmation is received”, says the actor.
The film, set in the 1970s, will be shot in locations in New Mexico, United States, for which all sanitation protocols have been drawn up against COVID-19.
“Cry Male” will be Eastwood’s 42nd production. His filmography includes “Mystic River”, “The Sniper”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “The Unforgivables” and “Blows of Destiny”, the latter two earning him the Best Direction Oscar.
To ask questions, García Rojas points out that in history skin color will not be synonymous with negativity.
“We are shaded characters, it doesn’t equate white to good and dark to bad. They are all shaded characters because yes, it is clearly something that is always in the controversy over the role of racial individuals in the massive movie industry; there are brunettes that is the hope in the film, ”he says.
García Rojas has worked on the series “Narcos: México “and starred in the movies” La carga “and”little brunette, the scandal “. He started his film career in 2008 alongside Tilda Swinton (“Doctor Strange” and “Michael Clayton”), after which he integrated productions such as “La querida del Centauro”, “Texas Rising” and was recently released in theaters with “Sin origen”. “.
“Cry macho” would be a balm for my career and the importance of a film institute, one of the last living legends of cinema, immortal in its filmography, “he says.
García Rojas joins the national actors who have recently starred in international films, including Diego Luna in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”; Eréndira Ibarra, currently filming “Matrix 4”, and Joaquín Cosío in the sequel to “Suicide Squad”, which will be released in 2021.