Diego Luna Is Still Offered Drug Dealer Roles, but Before ‘Rogue One’ That Was All He Got

Diego Luna is nan title character successful 1 of nan astir acclaimed TV bid of nan past fewer years pinch “Andor” — not to mention that nan Tony Gilroy-created show is 1 of nan most acclaimed “Star Wars” projects successful nan history of nan franchise.

But that doesn’t mean Luna still doesn’t get offered roles arsenic supplier dealers. Thankfully, though, his years pinch “Star Wars” making love backmost to 2016’s “Rogue One” person resulted successful supplier dealers not being the only type of domiciled he’s offered.

“Before ‘Star Wars,’ nan only projects I’d get offered would beryllium supplier dealers,” Luna told The Hollywood Reporter, arsenic portion of their play actors roundtable. “And past I could beryllium nan bully supplier trader and not nan vicious 1 but still a supplier dealer. Because nan strategy wasn’t moreover sending messages of, like, ‘Yes, you could find a measurement to beryllium yourself and still activity successful those projects that you’re looking astatine and hoping to spot yourself reflected in.’ But I do deliberation that’s changed, and nan middleman betwixt nan assemblage and america is not location anymore. There’s nary feline pinch a cigar saying, ‘You! You’re gonna beryllium a star, boy.’ People conscionable click now, and abruptly it’s like, ‘Shit, they’re watching a Mexican show.’ You tin beryllium arsenic acold distant arsenic you tin from nan system, and nan strategy will spell and hunt for you if there’s a request to perceive your story.”

But to clarify, Luna past added, “Oh, I still get a batch of supplier dealers. It’s conscionable I’m not looking for what they want maine to play. I tin look for nan worldly I want to do. It’s that state that comes pinch knowing that group coming attraction astir specificity.” 

Luna played nan “boss of each bosses” and laminitis of nan Guadalajara Cartel Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo for 2 seasons of “Narcos: Mexico” from 2018 to 2020. The character besides recalled really often he’d beryllium told to suffer his Mexican accent successful bid to play a wider assortment of roles earlier successful his career.

“I retrieve being asked, ‘Are you going to cleanable up your accent?’ That’s not portion of nan speech anymore. But erstwhile I was 20, it was like, ‘Man, you’re great, and if you activity pinch your accent, you’ll beryllium doing what this personification aliases that personification is doing.’ And you go, ‘Why would I for illustration to do that? This is what makes maine unique.'”

Thankfully, nan powers that beryllium astatine Lucasfilm agreed. Hearing a Mexican accent from a personnel of nan Rebel Alliance successful “Rogue One” was softly revolutionary successful its ain way. Sometimes leaning much into really you are tin bring greater specificity and extent to a character. And TIME mag surely agreed recently, erstwhile they named Luna to nan TIME 100.