Demián Bichir on The Power of Film And Telling The Immigrant Story

By Steve Fisher, Fusion

The Hollywood actor pulled up to a stop light in downtown Los Angeles, and asked the man in an old pickup truck next to him a question. “Hey paisano, will you sell your truck?” The actor was Demián Bichir, one of Mexico’s most highly regarded and popular film stars, and he was trying to get a feel for his character in his then-upcoming film “A Better Life.”

That night the two came to an agreement. “I was driving that beat-up truck — really, really bad truck — for, I don’t know, maybe five months,” Bichir told an audience of 400 UC Berkeley students during a presentation on Dec. 5.

He said driving the truck helped him better identify with his character, an unassuming gardener working in the posh neighborhoods of L.A.

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