And despite his Mexican upbringing, the actor hadn’t heard of this incredible story before someone asked him about it in Los Angeles. “I so felt embarrassed that I didn’t know this period of time in my own country,” he said. But he researched the story and as he did, he became intrigued. “I got very passionate when I saw this dark period of Mexico where more than 200,000 people died in a very horrible way,” he said.
First off, I call Bull Shiite. Andy wasn't raised in Mexico and never visited there until becoming an adult.
He came over to Miami, Fl with parents as they left Cuba during the "Bay of Pigs" and likely never visited Mexico until moving to Hollywood. in the 1980's.
He doesn't know anything about "This period of time in my own country" because he ain't Mexican and although I understand he is a Republican he is one weird hombre.
As I understand this story, it is contextually weak and attempts to tell a story as an epic film but was completely underfunded with severe weakness behind the camera.
It is a thin narrow slice of a story in Mexican history that needed to be told but they could have manipulated outlets like the Discovery Channel or the History Channel to pre-tell the story so people would understand it better.
I'll go see it but I am expecting about as much from this movie as I got from "El Cantante" which was "That's it?".
I’m aware of the Cristero revolt, but its hard to find out much about it.
A friend told me that its something people don’t like to talk about. He did say, the popular memory is of generals hunting down priests to execute them and general’s wives hiding them and holding services in secret.