TeenHollywood: Have you ever been on the receiving end of a con?
Diego: Yeah. I live in
Mexico City
and that happens. Well, it happens everywhere, I guess. Sometimes, in
interviews, that happens. You sit there and say ‘I’m not gonna talk about this
and this and this’ but, at the end, you realize you talked about everything.
That I call a con, too. You know, those interviews where they start about your
career and they just want to get if you have a girlfriend or you don’t?
TH: So, do you have a girlfriend?
Diego: (laughs) I’m not gonna fall for that again.
TH: So what was the other con you fell for?
Diego: Everything. There are so many times when you buy something that’s not
what you read about, like ‘the amazing place to have a holiday’. Then, you get
there and it’s gonna be an amazing place in ten years and it’s not ready and
you’ve already paid. In
Mexico, people have started to wear their watches on the right hand because
you’re driving and you don’t want to have your watch here (indicates left wrist)
because people can come and take it. They come with a cigarette and burn you so
you’re like ‘oww, what happened?’ Then they take the watch.
TH: Yeow! And we thought
L.A. was a tuff city. You live in Mexico City.
Has no one pressured you to move to
L.A.?
Diego: Yeah but I like
Mexico and it’s a three hour flight, really close. I have lots of things to do
in Mexico and people that I want to work with and my friends and family. I’m
staying there for sure.
TH: In doing research for
Criminal, did a friend take you down to the
L.A. barrio here? What did you learn or see?
Diego: I really got to know, finally, that
L.A. is not just the West side and promotion, hotels and the big theaters.
There’s a city, lots of people and it’s a very weird city because there are so
many races, so many accents, so many languages in the same place but they don’t
share. There are so many little frontiers inside L.A. You don’t see that in
movies. You see a movie about Mexicans or cholos or about Americans but this
movie is about L.A. and
L.A.
is another character. I like that because it’s an honest way of saying that we
should celebrate the differences instead of making frontiers between us.
TH: In the film, you are so good at cons because you look so trustworthy. Do you
really think you look like a nice guy?
Diego: (laughs) I think so, yeah. I’ve seen worse.
TH: Does that work for or against you?
Diego: It depends on the situation. For Rodrigo, it definitely works. For me,
sometimes, if I want to play the bad guy, it doesn’t work at all.
Source:
http://www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=78254&cat=1038
