Netflix have release a new ‘Becoming Griselda’ featurette.
The four-minute long YouTube video showcases Sofia Vergara’s incredible transformation into Griselda Blanco for the upcoming series.
Viewers are given an insight into what it took to mask actress and executive producer Sofia’s beauty and turn her into ‘the Godmother.’
The process included five wigs, prosthetic eyebrow covers, eyebrows glued on, a prosthetic nose and a plate of ‘slightly bucked teeth.’
Sofia, 51, also had her bottom teeth ‘yellowed out’ further, staining them to align with the fact that Griselda was a chain-smoker.
Netflix have release a new ‘Becoming Griselda’ featurette, a four-minute long YouTube video which showcases Sofia Vergara ‘s incredible transformation into Griselda Blanco
Viewers are given an insight into what it took to mask actress and executive producer Sofia’s beauty and turn her into ‘the Godmother’ for the upcoming series
Blanco is considered to have been co-running one of the most profitable cartels in history
Sofía said of her transformation: ‘I had an incredible hair and makeup design team that did an amazing job creating this character who was in the world of Miami in the ’70s and ’80s.
‘Getting the look correct was very important to me because I needed to disappear. I wanted no one to think of me or my last role as Gloria Pritchett.
‘I wanted to get inside Griselda’s head and really understand her mentality, where she was coming from.’
Director Andrés Baiz said: ‘Sofía and I decided we needed to find a physical look that made Sofía look different from Sofía Vergara, but without trying to imitate the real Griselda Blanco.
‘So any difference that would give Sofía confidence was what became important – in the eyebrows, the nose, hair.
‘She wanted to feel like a different person, but not to the point in which the prosthetics or make-up took over her performance. It had to be subtle.
‘This transformation is achieved also through behaviour: the way she walks, the way she moves, the way she stares or laughs. Sofía had never smoked in her life, Griselda smokes all the time.’
Sofia’s transformation process included five wigs, prosthetic eyebrow covers, eyebrows glued on, a prosthetic nose and a plate of ‘slightly bucked teeth’
Sofia, 51, also had her bottom teeth ‘yellowed out’ further, staining them to align with the fact that Griselda was a chain-smoker
Sofia said: ‘Getting the look correct was very important to me because I needed to disappear. I wanted no one to think of me or my last role’
‘I wanted to get inside Griselda’s head and really understand her mentality, where she was coming from’ added the actress
Director Andrés Baiz said: ‘Sofía and I decided we needed to find a physical look that made Sofía look different from Sofía Vergara, but without trying to imitate the real Griselda Blanco
Netflix’s Griselda is a fictionalized dramatization inspired by the life of the savvy and ambitious Griselda Blanco, who created one of the most powerful cartels in history.
Set in 1970s-80s Miami, Blanco’s lethal blend of unsuspected savagery and charm helps her expertly navigate between business and family, leading her to become widely known as ‘the Godmother.’
In this telling, Griselda Blanco spent ten years as the brains behind her husband Alberto’s drug trafficking operation in Medellín and New York
When she escapes to Florida with her three sons, she uses that know-how to build a new life for her family with a ferocity that doesn’t always serve her well.
Griselda launches globally on Netflix January 25.