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Sofia Vergara is unrecognizable in first image from Netflix's 'Griselda' series: 'What an incredible transformation'
Ethan Alter
·Senior Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
Wed, January 19, 2022, 4:16 PM
Two years after Modern Family wrapped up its decade-long run on ABC, Sofia Vergara is returning to the small screen as the matriarch of a very different kind of family. The Emmy-nominated actress is headlining Netflix's upcoming limited series Griselda, based on the life of notorious Colombian drug kingpin, Griselda Blanco. The streaming service just released a first look image of Vergara in character, and you might say she's gone through a dramatic makeover.
In addition to starring in Griselda, the Colombian-born Vergara is also an executive producer on the currently-shooting six-episode series alongside Eric Newman, who previously oversaw the hit Netflix shows Narcos and Narcos: Mexico. The real Blanco — who was known by a variety of nicknames, including the Black Widow and the Cocaine Godmother — died in 2012 after a lucrative career in the drug trade that lasted over three decades in both Colombia and Miami.
Sofia Vergara is unrecognizable in a first look image from Netflix's Griselda limited series. (Photo: Elizabeth Morris/Netlfix)
"Griselda Blanco was a larger-than-life character whose ruthless but ingenious tactics allowed her to rule a billion-dollar empire years before many of the most notorious male kingpins we know so much about," Vergara noted in a statement when the series was first announced last fall. At the time, Newman called Griselda a "passion project" for the actress and staffed up the show with other Narcos veterans, including co-showrunner Doug Miro and cast members Alberta Guerra and Gabriel Sloyer.
The real Griselda Blanco is shown in this undated handout photo supplied by Miami-Dade Police Department to Reuters September 5, 2012. (Photo: CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
Vergara isn't the first glamorous actress to transform her appearance to play Blanco: Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones previously took on the role in the 2018 Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother. (The film received largely negative reviews, with several critics criticizing the choice to cast the Welsh actress as a Colombian drug lord.) Jennifer Lopez is also reportedly developing a film version of Blanco's life story.
On Twitter, Vegara's new look has impressed a number of fans, although some aren't sold on the "glow up" that the real Blanco is receiving.
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Sofia Vergara is unrecognizable in first image from Netflix's 'Griselda' series: 'What an incredible transformation'
Ethan Alter
·Senior Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
Wed, January 19, 2022, 4:16 PM
Two years after Modern Family wrapped up its decade-long run on ABC, Sofia Vergara is returning to the small screen as the matriarch of a very different kind of family. The Emmy-nominated actress is headlining Netflix's upcoming limited series Griselda, based on the life of notorious Colombian drug kingpin, Griselda Blanco. The streaming service just released a first look image of Vergara in character, and you might say she's gone through a dramatic makeover.
In addition to starring in Griselda, the Colombian-born Vergara is also an executive producer on the currently-shooting six-episode series alongside Eric Newman, who previously oversaw the hit Netflix shows Narcos and Narcos: Mexico. The real Blanco — who was known by a variety of nicknames, including the Black Widow and the Cocaine Godmother — died in 2012 after a lucrative career in the drug trade that lasted over three decades in both Colombia and Miami.
Sofia Vergara is unrecognizable in a first look image from Netflix's Griselda limited series. (Photo: Elizabeth Morris/Netlfix)
"Griselda Blanco was a larger-than-life character whose ruthless but ingenious tactics allowed her to rule a billion-dollar empire years before many of the most notorious male kingpins we know so much about," Vergara noted in a statement when the series was first announced last fall. At the time, Newman called Griselda a "passion project" for the actress and staffed up the show with other Narcos veterans, including co-showrunner Doug Miro and cast members Alberta Guerra and Gabriel Sloyer.
The real Griselda Blanco is shown in this undated handout photo supplied by Miami-Dade Police Department to Reuters September 5, 2012. (Photo: CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
Vergara isn't the first glamorous actress to transform her appearance to play Blanco: Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones previously took on the role in the 2018 Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother. (The film received largely negative reviews, with several critics criticizing the choice to cast the Welsh actress as a Colombian drug lord.) Jennifer Lopez is also reportedly developing a film version of Blanco's life story.
On Twitter, Vegara's new look has impressed a number of fans, although some aren't sold on the "glow up" that the real Blanco is receiving.
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Looks a tiny bit more believable but using Sofia Vergara just screams laziness by the producers. Like there aren't other options for an elderly latina lady that can play the role
Even Belita Moreno could have worked better
Doobie Doo
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Looks a tiny bit more believable but using Sofia Vergara just screams laziness by the producers. Like there aren't other options for an elderly latina lady that can play the role
Even Belita Moreno could have worked better
Its obvious she is the go to Latina for roles regardless of whether it fits or not. She is the Kevin Hart of Latinas.
bytch look like lou diamond phillips lol
I need wsg in this show in someway shape or form
What movie zeta Jones played her in ?Can’t stand the reverence old drug dealers get in film/tv. Sh!t is tired with predictable plots, exaggerated and fabricated stories and just repeated wack low IQ corny guns/drug/murder/money scenes.
y’all don’t get tired of watching these tired wack asss shows/movies/plots?
Catehrine Zeta jones played her, now Sofia vergara and even Jlo are going to have a turn. Ridiculous.
Hollywood gonna keep dishing this wack stuff out cuz y’all just can’t help y’all selves.
I mean they pulled this off so.....maybe?
Who is that on the left?
U need a name to play somebody nobody really knows aboutLooks a tiny bit more believable but using Sofia Vergara just screams laziness by the producers. Like there aren't other options for an elderly latina lady that can play the role
Even Belita Moreno could have worked better
Doobie Doo
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They gonna use his adlibs for the gun shot sound effects.
Kingshango
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They turned Sofia Vergara into Catherine Zeta Jones.
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Nah nobody can help themselves. Gangster movies have been popular in all forms, for all people, ever since forever.Can’t stand the reverence old drug dealers get in film/tv. Sh!t is tired with predictable plots, exaggerated and fabricated stories and just repeated wack low IQ corny guns/drug/murder/money scenes.
y’all don’t get tired of watching these tired wack asss shows/movies/plots?
Catehrine Zeta jones played her, now Sofia vergara and even Jlo are going to have a turn. Ridiculous.
Hollywood gonna keep dishing this wack stuff out cuz y’all just can’t help y’all selves.
Italian mob movie is just a gangster flick. Hood movies are just gangster flicks. Go to Asia and they got yakuza flicks. Eastern promises won awards and it’s just a Russian gangster flick. Boardwalk empire. Peaky blinders. This movie. The original Scarface. All of it.
People love the bad guy. People love the excess and money and the lifestyle. Every gangster is cool and the cops are the dikks and we root for the bad guys and love them more when they are more ruthless. Word to Marlo.
Nah. We love this shyt. The world loves crime.
Can she act?
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