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A key moment in the fame of actor Alejandro Edda It happened when he went to the New York court where the trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán , a character he plays in the series “Narcos”. Edda admits that she could not hold her gaze at the drug trafficker.
This is how she tells it in an interview with the journalist Noah Hurowitz with Rolling Stone magazine. , who covered the trial and recently published the book “El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord.”
“What was it like having this infamous person looking directly at you and recognizing you?” Asked the journalist.
“Well, definitely not I felt comfortable at all. I couldn’t hold him (his gaze), I couldn’t hold my… “, he said.
Edda does not expressly say so, but she was referring to the eye contact of “El Chapo” , after his lawyers told him that there was the actor who played him in the series “Narcos” Netflix . The journalist had to specify if he was referring to the gaze, to the eye contact.
“Yes, I had to look very slowly in front, because, well, I’m not going to smile at him like: ‘Hey, what’s up!’ ”, he expressed.
The interview focuses on how Edda prepared for the character and her vision of “El Chapo” , who did she He was surprised to see him so attentive at the trial.
“(He was) very alert and very patient,” he said.
The actor spent two days in the Eastern District Court of Brooklyn , where he acknowledges that he obtained enough information and experiences to be able to build the character he plays.
“It was enough to really feel this character,” he said.
He said he was also overwhelmed by the press. There were too many journalists and since he arrived at court early, journalists besieged him with questions and photographs. In the courtroom there was a lot of attention paid to his reactions, to Guzmán Loera’s when he saw him. That moment was key for him.
“The moment he left and almost sat down, the lawyers stopped him and then they pointed at me and then they told him . And that’s when he stood up and smiled… And waved, ”he recalled. “It helped a lot. I remember going back on set after coming back from Brooklyn and felt more confident about my job. ”
He added that he decided to leave the room, after “El Chapo” greeted him from afar and felt the gaze of the journalists, although he was surprised that the drug trafficker, sentenced to life imprisonment for leading the Sinaloa Cartel, he will be “excited” to see it.
“He seemed very excited,” said the journalist.
“Super excited. And that’s when I said, ‘Oh shit! I did it! ‘”, Acknowledges the actor.
After that he left court, even remembering that Judge Brian Cogan was not happy with what was happening.
“And then the judge, you know: ‘Hey guys, this isn’t Comedy Central,’ or whatever. And I didn’t even know the reporters behind me, but they were tapping my shoulder like, ‘Oh my gosh! I salute you! Oh Lord!’ I say: ‘What’s going on?’ ”
The third season of the series “Narcos” about Mexico, the fifth of the series, is outlines as the most violent and shows the rise of Guzmán Loera, in addition to the power of Amado Carrillo Fuentes.