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‘Griselda’ Star Sofia Vergara On The Reality Of Playing Playing Colombia’s Real-Life Cocaine Godmother: “She Hurt Many, Many Lives”


'Griselda' star Sofia Vergara on transforming into Colombia’s real-life cocaine godmother and the reality of the role: 'She hurt many, many lives.'

It took nearly 15 years for Sofía Vergara to land Griselda at Netflix, but when it was finally time to step into the notorious Colombian drug lord’s heels, the Modern Family star was filled with doubt. DEADLINE: Reading some of the reviews, one in particular said you had ‘out-of-left-field gravitas.’ I would assume that you wouldn’t enter a project like this if on some level you didn’t think you could do it. They were household names: Pablo Escobar, the Rodríguez Orejuela [brothers], who are the biggest narco guys in the world.

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