"I've done many characters that live in that world, the drug wars and the drug world, but this one had a different angle." "I've done my best not to repeat myself," he says. But it's an issue he says he feels passionately about. That Del Toro, whose family moved to Pennsylvania when he was 12 years old, has frequently found - or been found by - drug-war tales is somewhat surprising to him. It has to come from a deep emotional understanding." When he doesn't feel something, he cannot act. "He's someone who's very radical about authenticity. I just cut 90-95 percent of his dialogue. Villeneuve would often cut Del Toro's dialogue, stripping the part down as he realised the actor did more with less. "For me, he was a source of information."Ĭinematographer Roger Deakins likens the weary-eyed Del Toro to Robert Mitchum. "He knows a lot about that world being involved in movies and coming back with people who were involved in drug wars," says Villeneuve. Villeneuve, the Quebecois director of Prisoners, was more confident. "And I tell you this one was one of those that I didn't know." I've been in movies where I thought it wasn't going to work and it did," Del Toro said in a recent interview.
"I've been in movies where I think it's going to work, and it doesn't. "Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything we do," he warns Emily Blunt's less-experienced FBI agent. He says little but has a weighty presence. Sicario, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has already drawn raves for Del Toro's terse gravitas as a shadowy man known only as Alejandro. These stories are out there in the newspapers." "I don't know how it comes about, but all I can say is I'm an actor in this time," says del Toro. In Denis Villeneuve's muscular, grim thriller Sicario, Del Toro finds himself back on the other side of the border, playing a mysterious mercenary joined with a CIA task force covertly pursing a Mexican drug lord. And the critical pinnacle of his career came in his Oscar-winning performance as an honest Mexico police officer in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. He starred as Pablo Escobar in last year's Escobar: Paradise Lost. He's played a recovering drug addict (21 Grams) and one not so recovering at all (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). It's a story that has followed the Puerto Rico-born actor from the start: One of his first credits was the 1990 NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.
NO OTHER ACTOR has covered all angles of the war on drugs - its tragedies, its violence, its farces - more than Benicio del Toro.
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