David Bianculli

Let's listen to a clip from the film.

In this scene, Benicio del Toro as Sergio is in his karate studio when he gets a call warning him that the authorities are coming after the migrants hiding in the building where he lives.

While on the phone, he gets a knock at the door.

It's Bob.

He's trying to contact his daughter, who's in danger.

In the year 2000, Benicio del Toro received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic.

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.