Kiko El Cabra earned the nickname for driving drug boats recklessly. The Barbate Civil Guard murderer could have been called that because of his unattractive face, but it would not be surprising if his life was made into a film and he ended up being played by Mario Casas. Sito Miñanco looked like a divorced man who goes out of his way to flirt with waitresses who could be his daughters, but in Fariña he was the attractive Javier Rey; Pablo Escobar had the languid look of Wagner Moura and the seductive looks of Benicio del Toro. Beneath Griselda's makeup is the stunning Sofía Vergara, and she's even seen behind a more ridiculous mask than the one Jeannette Rodríguez used to escape from prison in “Lady in Pink,” an escape as bizarre as the escape of El Pastilla, the contract killer who was discovered by a camera days later in Leipzig. It's hard to fit in when you look like Jar Jar Binks. In fiction it doesn't matter, in the cinema at least it would be Jon Kortajarena. The model returns today in the second season of The Immortal. In the Movistar Plus+ series, the beautiful Álex García is a carbon copy of Juan Carlos Peña, the leader of Los Miami, the gang that controlled the drug trade in Madrid, the same one Ana Obregón wanted to hire to beat up Jaime Cantizano – that is the Hispanic feud I want to see. Search Peña on Google and you'll see how much criminals owe casting directors.
The drug dealer is not only glorified but also humanized. The Colombian Juan Pablo Calvás denounced him after the premiere of Griselda. It's not a new vice. Remember Miguel Ángel Silvestre in “Without Tits There Is No Paradise.” There are countless idiots who have taken him as a role model because they believe that a criminal's life is full of big cars and hot romances with women who look like Amaia Salamanca. The drug dealer is glorified and consumption is trivialized, as if the end customer were innocent. I've argued with supposed feminists who tear their clothes apart over the lyrics, but they don't question that by using some kind of drug they are funding the trafficking of women, including the immigrant and arms trade. Gloria Serra isn't necessary to figure out the connections between drug trafficking and human trafficking, although, as with castings, it's more satisfying to avoid reality.
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