![]() ![]() Their daughter, meanwhile – played by García’s real life eldest daughter – is pretending to be at college, but has really dropped out and become a pole dancer, while her teenage brother harbours secret sexual fantasies about an obese neighbour. He pretends to be playing poker games while actually taking acting classes – but his wife grows suspicious, and assumes he must be having an affair. But as well as starring in the movie, García is also the producer – and, as he explains with a slightly weary smile, “There is a certain pride of fatherly love.”Ĭity Island is a sweet, faintly farcical family comedy about a corrections officer, Vince Rizzo, played by García, who secretly longs to act. He’s in Rome on a family holiday with his wife of 28 years and three of their four children, and I was surprised that he’d interrupt their vacation to talk about a low budget, independent movie – “pretty much a BBC drama”, as he describes City Island. Unchaperoned by any personal assistants or PRs, he radiates no starry charisma, but at 54, looks middle-aged and discreetly European in a pale linen suit and leather sandals. No one else appears to notice him either – though that may be due to his bushy moustache, which makes him look like Inspector Clouseau. ![]() We meet in the lobby of a hotel in Rome, where I fail to recognise him. Why didn’t he become the next De Niro or Pacino? But a better question might be, how did García make it as far in Hollywood as he has? For in truth, he is not really an A-list actor type at all. Why is it, some critics have asked, that García never quite made it? He has all the smouldering Latin volatility, the darkly dangerous good looks. And yet, there has always been a vague sense of unfulfilled promise. Since then there have been other leading roles in box office hits – When a Man Loves a Woman, Desperate Measures, and most recently Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen. His fame began almost a quarter of a century ago with the gangster movie The Untouchables, followed in 1990 by an Oscar-nominated performance in Francis Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III, which elevated him to the cinematic stratosphere and inspired much excitable talk of García as the new Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. A ndy García is always described as a Hollywood A-list actor, and technically speaking this is accurate.
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