The Guadalajara Reporter

Local actor back in the Oscar frame

Nominated last week for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s “No” is headlined by Guadalajara-born actor Gael Garcia Bernal playing an advertising executive charged with helping to oust Chilean dictator Augustin Pinochet from power.

Garcia’s character signs on as a consultant with the “No” campaign in Chile’s 1988 referendum on the future of General Pinochet, who had been in power for 15 years since staging a coup d’état to overthrow the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende.

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