He blew audiences away with his performance in the widely successful Amores perros, directed by his compatriot Alejandro González Iñárritu, became an international star with Walter Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries, Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education, and more recently Babel with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Gael García Bernal is an eclectic actor who just as easily switches genders, accents, registers and countries. He alternates between shooting in Latin America, Europe and Hollywood. But more recently, he’s stepped to the other side of the screen, founding a company (with his accomplice Diego Luna) that produces (Drama/Mex), distributes (El violín) and promotes social documentary in Mexico. Emblematic of the new Mexican generation, Gael once again proves his versatility and talent with his directorial debut Déficit.

by Jean-Christophe Berjon