He has played Che Guevara (“Che”), been a regular in the Marvel universe as The Collector and will always be beloved for his mumbling Fred Fenster in “The Usual Suspects.” He was also recently cast to play the villain in Colin Trevorrow’s “Star Wars: Episode VIII.” This string of films, from “Traffic” to “Sicario,” only make up a small part of Del Toro’s varied credits.

“I’ve done many characters that live in that world, the drug wars and the drug world, but this one had a different angle.” “I’ve done my best not to repeat myself,” he says. But it’s an issue he says he feels passionately about. That Del Toro, whose family moved to Pennsylvania when he was 12 years old, has frequently found - or been found by - drug-war tales is somewhat surprising to him. It has to come from a deep emotional understanding.” When he doesn’t feel something, he cannot act. “He’s someone who’s very radical about authenticity. I just cut 90-95 percent of his dialogue. Villeneuve would often cut Del Toro’s dialogue, stripping the part down as he realized the actor did more with less. “For me, he was a source of information.”Ĭinematographer Roger Deakins likens the weary-eyed Del Toro to Robert Mitchum. “He knows a lot about that world being involved in movies and coming back with people who were involved in drug wars,” says Villeneuve. Villeneuve, the Quebecois director of “Prisoners,” was more confident. “And I tell you this one was one of those that I didn’t know.”

I’ve been in movies where I thought it wasn’t going to work and it did,” Del Toro said in a recent interview. “I’ve been in movies where I think it’s going to work, and it doesn’t.

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