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?".
The author is talking about Eduardo Verástegui, not Andy Garcia who was born and raised in Cuba.
Eduardo Verástegui is the one who was born and raised in Mexico
Absolutely all of the quotes are Verástegui’s. Absolutely none of the quotes are Garcia's.