Shooting Griselda was not easy for Sofia Vergara. The former Modern Family star landed her first dramatic role thanks to Netflix as a Colombian drug lord baroness who was Pablo Escobar’s mentor.
For the role of this character, who, according to rumors, caused the death of 200 people, the actor changed everything about himself: his face, speech and even his posture, which left him with some after-effects after filming.
A complete metamorphosis
Three hours. This is the amount of makeup time it takes in a day to transform Sofia Vergara into Griselda Blanco: fake nose, fake jawline, fake teeth, new hair, more defined eyebrows… the goal? Gloria will disappear completely A modern familywhile avoiding “looked like a monster”– he will tell us in the interview.
But to play the drug lord baroness, the 51-year-old actress had to relearn everything. He, who had never acted in a dramatic role, was accompanied by a coach to learn to behave differently:
“I acted in Spanish for the first time. I started my career directly with Modern Family and I didn’t have the opportunity to take classes. I didn’t know how actors were prepared. I had a coach who would accompany me and help me with the scripts.”
On our microphone and on TV, the actress explains to anyone who will listen that the director of the series, Andres Baez, even invited her to his house to teach her how to smoke and sniff (fake) cocaine…!
A Griselda style approach
Sofia Vergara especially worked on her approach, which left her with some physical results, as she reveals of this interview. “I came up with this way of standing, which I kept for 6 months. I hurt my back permanently. I had to have an injection in the area of the penis and now it still hurts.”
It should also be said that in the Netflix series, the actress is always in high heels, stilettos or platforms, very fashionable in the 70s, which also does not help her to have a very good posture. If Vergara lives up to this sad memory of filming, her performance will be singled out by many critics and netizens alike.
Griselda is available on Netflix.
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