Character
studies
Over three decades and 40-
plus films, Benicio Del Toro
has built a reputation as one
of the most exciting screen
actors of his time, and
a career as an heir to the
stars of earlier Hollywood
generations: intense,
unpredictable, supremely cool.
In his new movie, Sicario 2:
Soldado, he plays a gunman
on the run from the CIA and
the Mexican cartels. Esquiremeets a maverick in his prime
Interview by Alex Bilmes
Photographs by Simon Emmet
Sling by Jeanne Yang
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