Director Guillermo del Torro won’t be making another film in Mexico any time soon.
The Hellboy director was recently on the red carpet at a special Mexico City showing of the film Rudo y Cursi, which he co-produced. And while he was there, he told reporters that he would likely never make another film in Mexico again.
It turns out that his father was kidnapped in Mexico 10 years ago which still makes del Torro fear for his safety too much to return to Mexico for long.
Thankfully his father was released, though the family reported they received death threats for a while after.
As for del Torro, he says he doesn’t feel safe directing in Mexico because his daily schedule and routine become too public.
He added, “Not all of the people who participated in the kidnapping were captured.” And described his situation as being a “forced exile.”
Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world! However, their government says abductions have gone down due to a new national security accord to battle crime which passed in August. They claim there’s only about 72 kidnappings a month now.
That’s still 72 too many!
But accurate and reliable date is hard to gather since a lot of kidnappings go unreported because of the fear of police involvement.
The nonprofit Citizens’ Institute for Crime Studies estimates that the real kidnapping rate is actually at about 500 per month!!!!
Crazy!
[Image via WENN.]
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