Playing a Mexican with a troubled past and rehabilitated in society, actor Demián Bichir said Friday that his role in the second part of the horror film “Black Phone 2” represents the “bravery” of Mexicans who “risk their lives leaving everything they have behind” to reach the United States.
In the role of Mando, a “brave” winter camp monitor, Bichir said he accepted the role because of “the analogy” between his character and those who migrate to the United States in search of a better future.
“It is a way of making clear exactly who we are, those who dare to cross the border (…). That is what we are made up of and that is the blood that has reached American society,” the actor stressed during an interview granted to EFE.
Bichir asserted that in the U.S. there is a “double standard that constantly says, ‘Go away, but we need you,'” while criticizing the “absurd, obtuse and completely useless political speeches” based on those messages.
“This community of human beings is there to make life better for everyone, and we are not going to leave,” said the second Mexican in history to be nominated for an Oscar in the best actor category for his role in ‘A Better Life’ (2011).
Demián Bichir’s character in ‘El Teléfono Negro 2’.
In addition to the character, the Mexican explained his interest in the film because “it is not the typical horror film (…), it is cinema at the highest level”.
Directed by Scott Derrickson, ‘Black Phone 2’ chronicles, three years after Finn (Mason Thames) managed to escape from his kidnapper, how he and his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) once again face the supernatural threat of the killer Grabber (Ethan Hawke) during a winter camp for children.
Thinking back, Demián recalls thinking that when he saw the first part he wanted “to be part of something like this, and when I read the script and I find this transportation that they have made from the characters of the first part to this completely new world, I thought it was brilliant”.
Contradicting the expression that second parts were never good, Bichir laughingly confirmed that “there are two examples that demolish that saying: ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Black Phone 2′”.
The “moving” film, as the actor described it, opened Thursday in theaters with the aim of repeating the success of its predecessor, reported Agencia EFE.
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