Careering through a colourful life story littered with broken relationships, fortunes won and lost, deals brokered and broken, and many, many corpses, Vergara gets a full acting fix charting Blanco’s journey from savvy schemer to paranoid contract killer.īut, boy, is it bloody: the body count here is extraordinarily high and there’s the rub. Sporting a dodgy prosthetic-enhanced look designed to ugly down her image – it doesn’t really work, Vergara still looks fabulous, albeit a bit bizarre – Vergara is offered plenty of scope for showing off her dramatic chops in the full-throttle Griselda (Netflix). Step forward notorious “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, very much the yin to Gloria’s yang.
After a decade chewing lumps out of her Colombian accent as Modern Family’s comedy glamourpuss Gloria, it’s easy to see why Sofía Vergara would be keen to get her teeth into a meatier role.
