Gael García Bernal

“Kyros in Gael’s life”

Ana Karen Ceja

Family, serenatas, tacos, mariachis, xoloitzcuintle but above all Día de los muertos are all part our mexican culture. Considered one of the Mexican actors that highlights the best part of our traditions and culture in its maximum splendor Gael García Bernal exhorts us to see beyond a simple mariachi or a simple tradition inviting us to go further.

There’s the example of his participation in Coco which incorporates themes from the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos. Since Gael García Bernal received the email that Pixar wanted him in a movie about “Day of the Death” he loved the idea. The animated adventure follows Miguel, an aspiring musician born into a family with a longtime ban on music. When Miguel is transported to the Land of the Dead, he encounters Hector (Gael García Bernal), a trickster who joins Miguel on his journey to unveil the truth behind his family history and return home.

“Seize Your Moment” is a big phrase in Coco. It’s one of Ernesto de la Cruz’s catch phrases. I find it interesting on how people interpret it because at sight-seeing may be the ideal teaching, but Gael García Bernal´s doesn’t think the same.  I really love his interpretation, because it offers insight into our future as well as our past. He said, “I think it has been one of the most damaging aspects of western society, you know, the notion of seizing the moment”. He thinks that this teaching made us live the now as if there was no tomorrow. As if we’re not engaging with the responsibility that there’s a future, and there are people that will come after.

Personally, life is more than a rush; it’s more a craft. Little by little, it’s built and seizing the moment sometimes makes us fall into the trap that it is now or never. And there are moments that it is now or never, but you know when that is. It’s not that there’s a rule that you have to follow the same monotonous path. Kyros in Greek means “appropriate/opportune moment” which is what Gael wanted us to catch from him. He just not only “seize his moment” but he waited until the moment of his opportunity arrived, and it does. It clearly does.

“Charolastra” friendship

María Andrea Ostos Cruz

Friends are the brothers we choose. Seventeen years ago, Alfonso Cuarón directed “y tu mamá también”, with the actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, movie in which these two started a friendship which is still one of the most known in the Mexican cinematography industry.

This movie shows us the relationship between Tenoch Iturbide (Diego Luna) and Julio Zapata (Gael García Bernal), who conform a fraternity named “los charolastras”. They meet Luisa Cortés (Maribel Verdú) on a familiar wedding and invites her join their trip to Boca Del Cielo. During the trip, their friendship is in danger because of some problems related to their couples and their new friend.

Their fraternity’s name, charolastra, comes from the combination of two words, charol and astral, and it basically means that you can be a vague, but with values; you can do whatever you want, as long as you are not a fan of the America club, and do not get involved with your best friend’s girlfriend.

Is in this movie where this recognized friendship starts and since then, they have participated in 3 other movies and nowadays work together on the Canana films production, with which they support the Mexican independent cinematography industry, what makes them the dynamic Latin duo of Hollywood. With the help of each other during this movie, they made a brilliant future in their careers. Because what we can do well on our own, we can do it great with support.

Gael García Bernal: Inspiration for a Cuarón, an incredible screenwriter.

Sarah Annette

In Mexico there are great minds in the middle of the show that day after day they give us a message with their work. Such is the case of Gael García Bernal, a great recognized actor who has worked internationally. At 39, his work has rewarded him with important prizes like a golden balloon for his program in "Mozart in the Jungle".

A starred in Mexican films that portray social problems and what happens in the country, but now is the time to talk about the movie "Desierto" by Jonás Cuarón another Mexican that demonstrates the talent and value of Mexico; something that stands out in the eyes of all is that Cuarón wrote this work thinking in Gael. The film is about an immigrant who has the American dream and tries to cross to the United States.

Gael star in the role of "Moises" that seeks to cross the border with a group of immigrants, but before fulfilling its mission one of the American officials discovers and begins a persecution.