David Bianculli

In that movie, he portrayed a Mexican police officer forced to decide whether to uphold justice or compromise his ethics in a corrupt system.

In this iconic scene, he meets up with United States DEA agents.

They want information about his new boss, a corrupt drug pin.

Del Toro's character is nervous when he meets up with the agents in a car at a parking garage.

So he suggests they change locations and have the meeting in a public place, a hotel's swimming pool.

Del Toro's breakout role in 1995 was as a small-time crook in The Usual Suspects.

He went on to play the drug-fueled lawyer Dr. Gonzo, starring alongside Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

And he won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as Che Guevara in Che.

His other films include Basquiat and 21 Grams, and he starred in the Showtime series Escape from Donnemora.

Last year, del Toro starred in the Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme.

He played Zsa Zsa Korda, a charismatic but morally complicated tycoon of the 1950s who, after surviving an assassination attempt, tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a novice nun played by Mia Threpleton.

This is the second Wes Anderson film for del Toro.

In 2021, he starred as a volatile, imprisoned artist in The French Dispatch.

We're going to listen to Tanya Mosley's interview with Benicio del Toro from last year.

She asked him about the Phoenician scheme.

Benicio Del Toro speaking with Tanya Mosley last year.

After a break, we'll continue their conversation.

And we have two TV reviews.

I'll review the new Nicole Kidman series, Scarpetta, based on the novels by Patricia Cornwell.

And critic-at-large John Powers reviews the Netflix series, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.