EXCLUSIVE: Diego Luna is a soccer-mad bureaucrat who makes an outsize promise to win the rights to host the 1986 World Cup in his new Netflix movie. México 86 bows on the streamer on June 5, just days before the country becomes a co-host of the 2026 World Cup, alongside the U.S. and Canada.
From a galaxy far, far away to the sun-drenched soccer pitches of Mexico, Andor star Luna plays Martín De La Torre. He’s a pen-pusher who makes the audacious pledge to deliver the World Cup after Colombia withdraws as host, setting off a chaotic and politically charged bid to stage the world’s biggest sporting event.
For Luna, art mimics life in the movie. “It’s the first World Cup I remember, and it happened at home,” he tells Deadline in his first interview about the film, which he leads and exec produces. “I was taken to
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