Inside Look at Netflix’s Griselda with Sofia Vergara

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Here's your inside look at the Netflix limited crime drama series Griselda, directed by Andrés Baiz.  Griselda Cast:  Sofia Vergara, Rosa Ochoa and Desiree Alexandra Estrada  Stream Griselda January 25, 2024 on Netflix!

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00:00 [PHONE RINGING]

00:03 Hello?

00:03 Hi, it's Griselda.

00:05 I need a favor.

00:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:08 There are so many nuances to explore

00:10 in terms of who she was--

00:11 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:14 --as a woman, as a mother, and of course,

00:17 as a drug lord who created one of the most profitable cartels

00:22 in history.

00:23 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

00:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35 Sofia is Colombian.

00:37 I'm Colombian.

00:37 So that was one of the aspects I love about working with her,

00:41 having the opportunity to work with her,

00:43 because she was redefining her work as an artist.

00:45 And it was my job to gain her confidence.

00:47 [SCREAMING]

00:50 Griselda Blanco is one of the great stories

00:53 in the narcotics trade.

00:55 A self-made woman coming out of such a male-dominated culture.

00:59 She's always trying to make it in her own way,

01:02 but the rug is always pulled under her,

01:04 and she has to start from scratch.

01:05 This is a superhuman feat that Griselda

01:08 pulls off to be able to navigate this world.

01:10 And we see that seeping into who she is.

01:12 She was not as famous as someone like Pablo Escobar,

01:16 but even he was scared of her at the time.

01:18 She stood on her own.

01:19 We're going to make the big money for ourselves,

01:22 for our families, and keep what is fucking ours.

01:25 [SCREAMING]

01:28 Her physical transformation.

01:29 That was one of the toughest aspects of the whole show.

01:31 What we decided was that she had to be different than Sofia,

01:35 but we shouldn't imitate Griselda Blanco.

01:37 Particularly at the expense of performance.

01:40 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

01:43 And she sat in makeup every day for hours.

01:46 She was in every scene.

01:47 It was in Miami in the '70s and the '80s.

01:50 Getting the look correct was very important to me.

01:53 Some of these clothes are just absolutely incredible.

01:55 The grittiness and yet colorfulness of Miami.

01:58 I cannot stress enough how incredible the job

02:02 that our department heads have done just bringing that to life.

02:05 I had an incredible hair and makeup design team.

02:08 It's a really complicated show.

02:09 It's got so many moving parts.

02:12 We have five wigs, different time periods,

02:14 like 1978, 1983.

02:17 Her posture has been changed, the way she holds her hands.

02:21 One of Sofia's signature features

02:23 are her beautiful eyebrows.

02:24 So she wanted to have that sort of tweezed out late '70s look.

02:28 She's wearing prosthetic eyebrow covers,

02:31 and then false eyebrows that are glued on, and then a nose,

02:34 and a plate of teeth, slightly bucked.

02:36 And we yellow out her bottom teeth even a bit more

02:39 because she smokes.

02:42 All the way through the show.

02:43 [SCREAMING]

02:45 I needed to disappear.

02:49 It's no longer the actor.

02:50 No one ever saw her on set as Sofia by the time

02:53 she left her makeup trailer.

02:54 She was Griselda.

02:56 And that's why Sofia is so perfect.

02:58 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

03:00 People are attracted to how she carried herself.

03:02 And that's a huge connecting point between her and Sofia.

03:05 We want the essence of Griselda.

03:07 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

03:10 It has a specific feel, a specific identity.

03:15 It has an integrity.

03:16 The truth is, as much as Griselda broke down barriers,

03:20 she's definitely not a hero.

03:23 That was a concern of ours.

03:24 How are we going to make an audience feel for a woman who

03:27 is so downright despicable?

03:29 It is not about a glamorous life.

03:32 No!

03:34 It was often bloody and terrifying.

03:38 And in the world she came from, she

03:40 did what she knew how to do.

03:42 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

03:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:48 [SPEAKING SPANISH]

03:52 (dramatic music)

03:54 (dramatic music)

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