Gael García Bernal’s Best Role Was in This Underrated Political Drama

Gael García Bernal took a chance on Jon Stewart's directorial debut and it paid off.

Thanks to a growing appreciation for arthouse and international films from American audiences, some of the best overseas talents have begun working on international co-productions. One of the biggest major crossover stars of the early 21st century was Gael García Bernal, who followed up his extraordinary work on Amores Perros, Y tu mama tambien, and The Motorcycle Diaries with roles in everything from The Kindergarten Teacher to Letter from Juliet.

In this effort to expose the Iranian police violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, it’s Bahari, Stewart, and Bernal who each had a role to play based on their skills; Bahari broke through with an essential story of democracy in danger, Stewart used his platform to make sure audiences were aware of events that seemed plucked out of fiction, and Bernal gave a richly detailed role the diligence that it deserved; not only is his version of Bahari representative of...

The sort of expository scenes needed to flesh out Bahari's situation play an important role in identifying his values, and Bernal took this task very seriously. However, there’s still a sense of playfulness to his conversations with his wife, Paola Gourley , as Bahari hilariously mourns about the American commodities he will miss overseas.

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