Return of the Mexican sex bombs: Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna on their boxing comedy La Máquina
They shot to fame as randy teens in Y Tu Máma También. Now the duo are back in a tale of Botox, boxing and borderline incest. Getting in shape took discipline, they reveal – and lots of broccoli
Forget Oasis: there’s a more dynamic reunion in town. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, the lifelong friends who first paired up on screen to play oversexed teenagers in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 road movie Y Tu Mamá También, are back. Unlike the Gallagher brothers, Bernal and Luna never fell out or became estranged. For 20 years now, they have co-run a documentary film festival and two production companies in their native capital Mexico City. Their acting collaborations, though, have been few and far between, with only the soccer-based Rudo y Cursi and the eccentric Will Ferrell vehicle Casa de mi Padre to their name since Cuarón’s vibrant hit climaxed with them tumbling into bed together.
In 2010, the pair began sketching out a script idea about a prizefighter and his manager, which they felt would fit them like a boxing glove. But life and work kept getting in the way: Bernal has three children, Luna two. Their careers have also become more commercial. Bernal played a flamboyant conductor in four series of Mozart in the Jungle, and starred in the Marvel TV movie Werewolf By Night, while Luna reprised his role as the hero of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the TV spin-off Andor, which recently finished filming its second series.
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