Here is a nice long article/interview where Gael talks about swine flu, Tough & Corny and everything in between.

Telegraph.co.uk ~ July 8, 2009

In late April, Gael Garcia Bernal was all set to fly to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival, where his latest movie Rudo & Cursi was to get its US premiere, but the outbreak of swine flu meant that he, like everyone else in a metastasising Mexico City, was fearfully holed up at home. ‘At first, it was terrifying, man,’ the actor recalls. ‘I don’t understand epidemics, who does? Paranoia and panic spread through the city incredibly fast. I was just watching news reports of all these people dying and not having any idea when this thing outside my door would end.’

Garcia Bernal ultimately did make it to Tribeca, but for an actor who’s consistently spurned the advances of Hollywood to make movies in Mexico, it seems entirely yet tragically apt that he should spend the darkest days of swine flu among his countrymen. The gringos could wait.

Ever since bursting on to the scene in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s gritty urban drama Amores Perros in 2001, Garcia Bernal has carved out a reputation as one of the mildest-mannered guys in film. Except, that is, where politics is concerned. Aged 16, he joined marches and demonstrations supporting the rebellion of the Zapatista Indians in Chiapas. Aged 24, more famously, when presenting an award at the 2003 Oscars, he ignored the autocue and gave the night’s first denunciation of the Iraq War.

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New York – April 21, 2009
We have heard that Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal are best friends in real life, and it seems like wishful thinking on the part of their fans. But when the two show up for a Rudo y Cursi interview dressed alike, finishing each others sentences, and helping each other with English translaions, it’s hard not to notice that there’s a real bond between them.

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Interview – New York (April 21, 2009)

Also, check out these two recent articles!
Diego & Gael Talk About Childhood
Rematch for Bernal and Luna

Back in November (2008) I posted four pictures of Gael from Flaunt Magazine. I since have gotten my hands on the actual magazine. See all 12 scans, including the 2 page article (in English), via the gallery link below!

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February 1, 2009 – Gael García unveiled a plaque for the play The Good Canary in Mexico City. Gael said he was thrilled, since this was the first time he’s come to see the play which stars his good friend and fellow actor Diego Luna. Read the article / Leer el articulo!

Also, thanks to JB, here are some new stills from Mammoth.
   

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The Good Canary plaque unveiling (Feb. 1)
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Exclusive from Latina.com

Latina reporter Vanessa Juarez caught up with new papi Gael Garcia Bernal at the Sundance Film Festival, where the actor was busy promoting his film Rudo Y Cursi. Although he’s very excited about the movie, Bernal’s eyes didn’t light up until we mentioned his newborn son, Lazaro. Fatherhood is clearly this star’s role of a lifetime.

Latina: How has fatherhood changed your outlook on your career?
Gael Garcia Bernal: I think everyone who becomes a father or becomes a mother goes through this change of priorities.

Latina: Has anything shocked you about the experience so far?
GGB: It’s a difficult thing to explain because it’s such a complex thing, and yet it’s so simple. So the best way I can explain it is, finally there’s someone more important than me that I have to consider. It’s incredible.

Latina: Has [actor and friend] Diego Luna offered you any fatherly advice?
GGB: Oh yeah, lots. It was mostly about changing nappies (diapers) and things like that.

Latina: You seem so peaceful.
GGB: Yeah, when you reach 30 everything calms down. You realize now you’re young again.

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PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Actor Gael Garcia Bernal’s new film “Rudo y Cursi” is Mexico’s fifth top grossing local film ever and is now set for US release in the coming months after being snapped up at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is the first production from Cha Cha Cha — a company formed by Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Now Cuaron’s brother, Carlos, joins the trio as a director, debuting with “Rudo y Cursi” which roughly translates into “Tough and Corny.”

The Spanish language film, also written by Carlos Cuaron, tells the tale of two talented soccer playing brothers, portrayed by Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who are plucked from their small village to play for Mexico’s top teams.

It reunites Garcia Bernal, 30, and Luna, 29, on-screen for the first time since 2001’s “Y tu mama tambien,” which was written by the Cuaron brothers, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and nominated for an Academy Award. That film also thrust a new generation of Mexican talent into the global spotlight.

“It’s a project that’s been done with friends,” Garcia Bernal told Reuters at Sundance about his renewed collaboration with Luna and the Cha Cha Cha team. “We know each other pretty well, so we can say things straight forward without blushing or feeling hurt. Also we are very rigorous in our work,” he added.

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¡Feliz cumpleaños Gael!

  
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México City (30 November 2008) – They say that 30 is a difficult stage because many have confliction about what they’ve done in their life. Nevertheless, Gael García Bernal can be calm since he not only is an actor who has worked with film makers like Pedro Almodóvar, Walter Salles and Fernando Meirelles, but he’s also a producer, a director, a defender of social rights and soon he’ll be a dad.

Practically from birth the “tapatío” [a person from Guadalajara] was close to sets because of his parents. Patricia Bernal and José Ángel García are actors. With time, Gael decided to follow the steps of his parents and debuted at age 11 in the soap opera Teresa which stared Salma Hayek.

Later he obtained his first star role in El Abuelo y Yo (Grandfather and Me) along side Diego Luna who has become one of his best friends.

“Thirty, what he’s not 35? He seems older, no?” mentions Diego jokingly about the birthday boy.

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Resist is a new film to be released in 2009 with Gael Garcia Bernal.

Resist is a quest for people whose actions are shifting our perspectives on the world, a search for people who are inspiring new ways of thinking, acting and being, who are instigating change from below. Resistance is their primary way of moving forward.

In our film Gael seeks out these life affirming people who are making change happen, who are transforming things for themselves, who see humanity and nature as something more meaningful than just a commodity. The power of this film is that the complexity and enormity of peoples’ struggles will be expressed through highly intimate personalised stories. It will reveal that seemingly disconnected people are in fact bound by their conviction that what is happening in the world today is wrong.

The film won’t be Gael telling us what to do ‘about things’ because he doesn’t pretend to have any answers. Our journey will be one of questioning and learning, rather than telling. Gael wants to explore what lies beyond the traditional discourse of confrontation. People can’t exist in a constant state of resistance but need to simultaneously create alternatives to what they are resisting.