Eva Mendes Runs for Her Life After Death Threats to Film Crew in Mexico
Eva Mendes may have been named a global pleasure, but it was not pleasing at all for the actress and the rest of the crew of the movie Queen of the South to film in global pleasure spot Mexico. According to the Independent UK, the film’s crew members and receiving threats from the drug underworld and its director Jonathan Jakubowicz felt that the best thing to do was to clear out:
“I’ve worked really hard to make this beautiful movie, but the safety of my family and my team comes first,” Jakubowicz told Variety. “Making this movie [would have] put us all at risk, not only in Mexico but in the US.”
What makes this really bad is that this isn’t the first time the Mexican economy has lost a chance to have some Hollywood money thrown at it. When Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas were filming Bordertown back in ‘05, they were ran out of town by threats.
Mexico missed out on the chance for some hefty Hollywood paper. Not good.
The director hasn’t said whether he’ll try to recreate the Sinaloa locations elsewhere…perhaps in Brazil or something, or even on the southern coast of Mexico. Guess with all the violence that’s going on, it’s a wait-and-see situation.
blue
Comment made on March 31, 2009 at 12:11 pmCrazy Mexican drug cartels,they are ruining the economy over there,this movie sounded very interesting,I love Eva,love that dress she is wearing!
PD in the NYC
Comment made on March 31, 2009 at 2:11 pmMost likely they’ll go film in New Mexico. The Southern coast of Mexico= just as bad.
Richard
Comment made on March 31, 2009 at 4:20 pmhope this movie gets made though i’m tired of c-ing Eva play the skank time after time after time.
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Pingback made on August 4, 2009 at 10:01 am[...] Now, why does the plot sound so eeringly familiar? It surely is the same movie that Eva was filming in Mexico with director Jonathan Jakubowicz back in March, before she and the rest of the film crew had to move out of Mexico because of death threats! [...]