Karol G entered her acting era with Griselda — and she’s slaying in it.
In a new interview with TheWrap, Griselda director Andrés Baiz revealed that the singer was so good in her part as Carla — Griselda’s confidante and a sex worker who helped the drug lord smuggle product to the U.S. — that they wrote her more lines.
“We actually started writing more for her because she was doing so great,” Baiz said. “She brought a lot of authenticity to her character. [Karol] is from Medellín, so the way she speaks, the way she expresses herself.” Baiz added, “Her performance was so, so good.”
The director said it was Sofía Vergara’s manager and Griselda exec producer Luis Balaguer’s “wonderful” idea to cast the singer for the role, and that it worked perfectly. (Vergara plays the titular role.)
“Being able to work with two of the most amazing, admirable women in Latin America [for this project], they were so professional, both of them Sofía and Karol, so humble and so generous,” Baiz said. “[They came in] with so much energy, it was great working with them. It was so much fun.”
Baiz also spoke to Netflix‘s Tudum about Karol’s presence in the series, calling her “completely humble” behind-the-scenes and celebrating her “very specific authenticity.”
“She loved her character because she’s a misfit. She comes from Medellín, so she felt comfortable portraying someone from [there],” Baiz added.
Juliana Aidén Martinez, who plays June Hawins in the series, described Karol G’s presence in the miniseries as “phenomenal” and a true representation of Colombia to TheWrap. “As a Colombian, you’re like, this is how it is, this is how it sounds. I feel like I’m seeing my family, and that they’re being seen in this moment,” she said.
Griselda, the biographical crime drama that follows the life of Griselda Blanco, premiered on Netflix on Jan. 25. Set in Seventies and Eighties Miami, the series dramatizes Blanco’s “lethal blend of unsuspected savagery and charm,” Netflix said. The show was co-created by Doug Miro, Eric Newman, Carlo Bernard, and Ingrid Escajeda.
Days before its release, Vergara and Netflix were sued by Michael Sepulveda Blanco, the son of Griselda, who alleged that Vergara and other producers behind Griselda stole his “private artistic literary work” and will cause “irreparable injury” and “damage his reputation in the entertainment community” if he’s not given proper credit.
Sepulveda Blanco claimed the series relies on highly “private narratives” about his family that he shared with two former partners after they entered into a development agreement in 2009. Sepulveda Blanco says he “devoted several years to meticulously documenting the private narratives of his, as well as his mother’s life, with the intention of publishing a book and developing a Spanish soap opera.”
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