The hunt for Osama Bin Laden galvanized the nation last year, with a real-life thriller that made-up movies couldn’t match…at least for a while. Now there are at least two separate “We got Bin Laden” projects appearing: Seal Team 6, premiering this weekend on the National Geographic Channel, and Zero Dark Thirty, a big-time theatrical release directed by Kathryn Bigelow of Hurt Locker fame…
…and both projects have a Latino as part of the team.
We’ll talk about Edgar Ramírez and Zero Dark Thirty closer to its February release date…but Freddy Rodríguez recently appeared on NTN24.com, an all-English news site out of Bogota, Colombia, to talk about his involvement in the NatGeo project just a couple of days ago. Here’s his interview.
Rodríguez talks about his role as the “breacher” on the Team and his own research into the demanding role. “From the first movie I’ve ever made, I’ve always been incredibly proud to represent Latinos in movies,” he said. “I always just try to do a great job.”
Freddy’s become a pretty convincing action-hero over the last few years. After Ugly Betty, he was a spy in the short-lived (and short-changed) spy series Chaos on CBS, appeared in the theatrical release Soldier of Fortune, and continues as one of the voices on the animated combat cartoon Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters. He’s got at least three other projects waiting in the wings as well, all slated for release in 2013: CBGB, about the legendary New York nightclub, and dramas Fort Bliss and Over the Wall, working with other rising stars like Malin Åkerman, Rupert Grint and Hayden Panettierre.
Seal Team 6 debuts Sunday Nov. 4 at 8P on the National Geographic Channel. You can read more about the movie here, on a special page at the National Geographic web site.
