The time Tenoch Huerta played Caro Quintero in Netflix’s “Narcos”

Cinema and the world of organized crime have seen each other many times, to tell each other on the screen. just like he did Tenoch Huerta, in ‘narcos’, the famous Netflix series where the Mexican actor gave birth to Caro Quintero, leader of the Guadalajara cartel.

In an operation, founder of the Guadalajara cartel, Dear Quintero He was arrested by the Navy. And part of his life was portrayed in the Netflix drama, “Narcos,” in which Tenoch Huerta was tasked with bringing him to life in the series, and which he mentioned for SensaCine what it was like to become the leader of drug trafficking in Mexico.

Although Caro Quintero wasn’t the first character Eric Newman, the creator of “Narcos”, offered Tenoch Huerta, as he was Blue, the Mexican actor said it was Rafael Quintero who caught his attention and once he read the script, convinced the showrunner to give him the part.

I felt that he was the character I could contribute the most, that he was the one that moved and motivated me, the one that excited me the most “

However, his Tenoch Huerta makes it clear that ‘Narcos’ is not the true story of Caro Quintero: “You have to understand that he is a character, we are not making a biopic, he is an interpretation of reality”. Also, he mentioned the concern to bring these kinds of characters to life in fiction.

Tenoch Huerta was not “afraid” of becoming Caro Quintero

Tenoch Huerta recently recalled in an interview for El Universal what it was like for him to play the leader of the Guadalajara cartel in ‘Narcos’: “There is an identification of many audiences, many people, I’m not afraid, I do my I work the best I can, I can and people will say ”.

For Huerta, the biggest challenge in bringing Caro Quintero to life was the accent, beyond the “danger” represented by the character: then someone from the crew said that the accent was from Colima, maybe someone in her family was from there or he was there. close. “Even, on some occasions, Tenoch Huerta remembers that Joaquín Cosío, of ‘El Infierno’, told him that a group of men had asked him to accompany them to meet the drug traffickers.

Regarding whether Caro Quintero could see the series, he says: “My only responsibility is with the narrative and I like to do it well because I love it. I don’t know if he will see it, I mean if there is Netflix where it is, I think so. I’m telling a story and playing a character, nothing more, ”concluded Tenoch Huerta.