'Chupa' uses wrestling to build a narrative that connects a family
. In the other corner is 13-year-old Alex , Chava’s American grandson, who is reluctantly spending spring break with his grandfather and cousins on the ranch. persona. His dad—Chava’s son—recently died of cancer, and Chava can tell that his grandson has yet to fully process the loss. The year is 1996, and Alex has been retreating behind his“You’re sad, son,” Chava says, trapping Alex in a headlock. “That’s normal. You’re hurt.” “I’m not hurt,” Alex responds. “I just really want to be left alone.
Chava spins around and throws Alex down. “Every time your dad gets brought up, you retreat and hide in that stupid game of yours,” he says, pinning his grandson to the ground. “Face your pain, face your fears and your sorrow. You have to feel the pain of the sadness.”), coming to Netflix on Friday. A grieving Alex, visiting his family in Mexico, is slowly discovering who he is, with the help of his grandfather’s tough love, as he approaches adulthood, Bichir tells TIME.
“It seems like he’s pushing him to do something he doesn’t want to do, but he’s only pushing him to face his own fears, and to face his own sadness, and to take it out,” Bichir says. “We tend to keep many of our feelings to ourselves, unless someone helps you to take it out.”cub, on his grandfather’s ranch.
Bichir—a Mexican icon with whom Cuarón aspired to work—brought his own personal knowledge and passion for the sport to building Chava’s character. Growing up, his father directed plays with a theater company in Querétaro, and the actor recalls going with other families’ kids to the
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