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hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 586th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a gifted Mexican actor, producer, and director who has been appearing in front of cameras for almost all of his 45 years, and who, every bit as much as Jean-Pierre-Leo was the face of the French new wave, became, with his close friend and frequent collaborator Gail Garcia Bernal, one of the faces of the new Mexican cinema, helping to bring to life the visions of a generation of master filmmakers from his country, most notably

the three amigos, Alfonso Quaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inari, two, and Guillermo del Toro,

while also enjoying great success internationally. Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee,

Critics Choice Award nominee, and for the second and final season of the acclaimed Disney

Plus Drama Series and or, likely soon to be Emmy nominee, Diego Luna.

Over the course of a conversation at the LA offices of The Hollywood Reporter, Luna reflected

on how the tragic death of his mother in a car accident when he was just two, had a series of reverberating

effects that sent him on the path to becoming an actor.

How he and Garcia Bernal became friends and wound up working together on a number of projects,

most notably Quaron's 2001 masterpiece Itumama Tambien.

How, after that film's massive success, he decided he wanted to

navigate his career in terms of weighing life and work in Mexico versus life and work in Hollywood.

How, despite possessing an accent that he thought would make such a thing impossible, he landed

the role of Cashion Andor, a Rebel Alliance captain and intelligence officer

in the first of the standalone Star Wars films 2016's Rogue One, A Star Wars Story, and then,

years later, in its prequel drama series and or, plus much more. And so, without further ado,

let's go to that conversation.

Diego, thank you so much for coming and doing this.

Great to have you on the podcast,

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