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In Diego Luna’s Orbit
The Andor star refuses to take credit for reshaping Star Wars. He should.
The film, which came to him after years spent as a child actor and telenovela star in Mexico, broadened his idea of the kind of art he could make, and soon he was taking roles outside the country, the best of which tapped into both his ferocity and his sensuality: a roguish waiter in the Dirty Dancing prequel Havana Nights, a besotted lover in Gus Van Sant’s Milk, a bad-boy artist who can’t drive for shit in Katy Perry’s music video for “The One That Got Away.” But upon Rogue One ’srelease in December 2016, critics and audiences were surprised by its somber, sincere take on a war film, in which a multiethnic group of Rebels — played by Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Forest Whitaker, and Luna, speaking in his natural Mexican accent — work together to steal plans for the Death Star. Scroll through pictures of Luna on Getty Images and you’ll see him at a 2019 event supporting Hasta los Dientes, a documentary about the Mexican Army’s torture and murder of two students; in 2018, opposing a security law that militarized Mexico; in 2017, as a member of the Berlinale Jury, attending a protest at the remaining Berlin Wall against Trump’s plans to build a southern partition.
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