Sofía Vergara surprises with her transformation as Griselda Blanco for a Netflix series

Griselda It is one of the most anticipated productions of Netflix, and finally we have an approximate release date and also the first images of the miniseries starring the Colombian actressSofia Vergara.

It will be next January 2024 when the series and movie platform broadcasts the series in which Sofía Vergara steps into the shoes of Griselda Blanco, the drug trafficker also known as the Black Widow. And the change couldn't be more surprising!

In the first images that Netflix publishes of the series we can see the one from Barranquilla unrecognizable, far from the explosive image that we are accustomed to in her characterizations, she appears with some features of her face modified. An impressive transformation for the actress, known for her role as Gloria Pritchett in the comedyModern Family.

Griselda will be the first dramatic role for the actress, who will also act entirely in Spanish for the first time. "I had to change the way I walked and talked. I didn't want to look like Gloria Pritchett with a fake nose. I wanted people to forget about Gloria, that was the most important part," she told the magazine.People this year when talking about this project.

He also participates in the Netflix productionKarol G, who will debut as an actress alongside Sofía Vergara in the miniseries, which will have six chapters.

The story of Griselda Blanco

Another of the drug trafficker's nicknames was The Godmother of Cocaine and as a member of the Medellín cartel she was a pioneer in the introduction of drugs to the United States through Miami (Florida), routes that Pablo Escobar later used. The Colombian was arrested in 1985 and spent twenty years in prison for drug trafficking crimes. In 2004 she was deported to Colombia and eight years later she was murdered in a butcher shop in Medellín.