So, what I love about Black Panther one and now
Black Panther two
is that the villains are so well rounded and I almost hesitate to call them
a villain.
And I just.
When do you see this character as a good person?
Do you understand his intentions and is that important for you as an actor?
Yeah, well, I,
Ryan Coogler and I, we this idea to create a simple man,
a simple human being, of course, with superpowers.
And all of those things are wonderful.
But his motivation is the motivation of we can share with him.
You know, it's trying to protect his people, trying
to protect his family, what he loved, the masks, his culture on.
He's willing to do whatever he has to do, you know, to protect them. And
I think
everybody can feel identify with him maybe.
And I hope everybody have another choices.
They made another choices.
But but at the end, you can feel empathy
with this.
Did you have to spend a lot of time in makeup when making this?
And how do you keep your mind engaged in those?
For me was around an hour.
Yeah.
For my for my partner is my villain, Alex Livinalli and the rest of the cast.
The members of the cast members.
It was a little bit longer, so for me it was quite easier.
But yeah, for me it's just to be distracted,
to be playing around, you know, making jokes.
And then when you are on set.
You have to focus.
Boom. Go, go for it.
Because I was reading that you had to learn to swim
and you learn a new language as well.
Is that one of the perks of this job?
I mean, once I interviewed an actor and he had to do a lesson
just on how to ride a horse with a sword in his hand.
And that's not something most people get to learn in life.
Is that something you enjoy doing
when you take on a role in a project is to learn new skills that I feel
I learned to swim
and I learn freediving style.
And I think the freediving was the most enjoyable part of the process
because to be down there,
it feels like active meditation is fantastic.
I was looking at your IMDB earlier to look at your kind of
career so far,
and you got some wonderful projects and I didn't know you were in Spectre.
And I noticed when you were in that
the name of the character was Mexican Man in Lift,
and now you're here as one of the lead parts
in a huge Marvel film, which is an incredible and
very much deserved rise in your career, have you always been ambitious?
Did you always believe you could get to where you are today?
Oh yeah.
It's a it's a it's a big honour, it's a big opportunity. And
of course, I feel so excited.
And now, I don't know, I just I have to wait.
What's next?
And even with this, you know,
move Hollywood the moment in my career.
So yeah, I'm I'm I'm optimistic.
Well, it's very deserved and what what did you but just my final question is
when you make a film like this, is there a sense of relief
when it's finally released
that you can talk about it to friends and family strangers?
Yeah, totally. Totally.
And I mean, the first time that I watched the movie was last week in the L.A.
premiere. There's going to be the second.
Yeah, it's it's as you mentioned, it's a relief is something
that you can finally live you know it's
just let it go and enjoy the movie on is
yeah it's the final step on the most enjoyable by the way
I mean all the process is beautiful but now it's like, okay,
this is it and you can do anything about it.
So yes, enjoy it.
Thank you so much for time. So much for your. Thank you.
Thank you. Cheers.