Tijuana, BC.- Actor José María Yazpik shared that in his teens he was close to narcotics in Tijuana, this brought him to light as part of his participation in the second season of ” Narcos: Mexico “which will premiere on A&E on February 15th.
“I was fortunately indirectly linked to the world of drug trafficking because in Tijuana in the eighties it was a society, like, very closed and drug traffickers were part of that society,” Yazpik commented.
In an interview via Zoom, who gives life to Dear Carrillo Fuentes “The Lord of the Skies”, he argued that he came to know Ramón Arellano Félix, as from time to time he appeared at parties he attended.
“I was touched by several close friends with certain members of the Arellano family, I even went to school with a couple of junior narcotics and went to parties that Ramon Arellano suddenly came to,” he said.
Yazpik, who lived in Tijuana for a stage of his life, clarified that it’s not that they were talking about drugs all day or that they were violent, they were just companions, nothing more.
“All these people or the vast majority are already dead or in jail, one of my friends I went to school with just got out of jail recently, and I, it’s not that he took me with them, but he was part of the scope of the group, with which you lived in the same colony, you went to the same club, the same school, you went to the tardeadas, you saw them giving the return, because well thus it was the relation “, explained l 50-year-old actor.
He stressed that, from these experiences, remembering this time, he was able to have this sensory back and help to better understand his character and understand him as a human being without glorifying him.
“This series is different from others that have touched on this issue, because they are not glorified, all or most end up in prison or dead, all end up receiving the punishment they deserve or not, and from that it is no longer given this glorification, ”he pointed out.
He went alongside Diego Luna He said the biggest challenge in bringing Carrillo to life was to make him credible, as there isn’t much information either, and try to sympathize with a character who has done a lot of harm.
“It’s especially complicated, living in a country that has been so brutally whipped by drug trafficking,” said the actor who shares credits with Diego Luna as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
Although it is a fictional story, it has real life data, which fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, have favored you for this project.
“It’s a painful issue, but it’s important to talk about it, it’s important to create a conversation. Unfortunately in several Latin American countries we are immersed in narcotics, it’s important not to glorify them,” he concluded.
The Netflix series, in its second season, will be broadcast on the screen of A & E, in this story also involved Marian Trevino, Fernando Urrejola and Mayra Hermosillo, the latter gives life to Enedina Arellano Felix, all of them were the virtual conference.