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Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Together Forever
Throwing punches in their first TV project.
The friends and collaborators first appeared onscreen together in 2001’s queer classic Y Tu Mamá También, went on to create two production companies together, and teamed up to play stepbrothers with dreams of soccer stardom in 2008’s Rudo y Cursi. Led by showrunner and writer Marco Ramirez (whose writing credits include Sons of Anarchy and The Defenders, and who co-created The Twilight Zone reboot with Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg), La Máquina follows aging boxer Esteban “La Máquina” Osuna (Bernal), who after a major loss considers whether he’s done in the ring. But his flashy manager and Botox-addicted best friend, Andy Lujan (Luna, in some unsettling prosthetics), isn’t ready to hang it up and instead encourages Osuna to launch a comeback; all of that seems like pretty standard triumphant sports-drama stuff.
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