Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal took aim at Donald Trump’s depiction of his countrymen as rapists, murderers and drug dealers on Thursday.
The movie star told “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that the GOP presidential nominee was “of course, not seen in a good light” in Mexico and that most people were “incredibly upset and angered” with his comments.
Watch the interview here:
Garcia Bernal said many Mexicans initially treated the brash businessman’s White House bid as a “joke,” but that has now morphed into “nervousness, fear and anger.”
The actor ― who stars in the upcoming “Desierto,” about a group of migrants who come under fire from a vigilante as they try to cross into the U.S. via the Arizona border ― also attacked his own government for not properly addressing Trump’s xenophobic speeches.
See the trailer for “Desierto” here:
Garcia Bernal described migration as a “natural phenomenon” and won great applause when he added, “We are all migrants.”
Later in the show, he adopted the fictional persona of construction worker Martin Hernandez to further mock Trump. Advocating for a wall to divide America from its neighbor, he said he was so keen on the proposal that he’d already started building it. But it’s not quite the wall that everyone may be thinking of.
Check out the skit below:
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
