16 Things You Didn't Know About Gael García Bernal

Alejandro is the one who found a way around Gael's school's no-working policy, which led to his groundbreaking role in Amores Perros. Gael told The Guardian:

"[Alejandro] came up with a very good Latin American solution to this problem — he said that a relative was a director of a hospital and he would be able to get me a medical certificate to say that I had contracted some big tropical disease on my last visit to Mexico. . . . I only missed one week of drama school, so it wasn't that bad. But my movement teacher told me to take it easy and my classmates sent get well cards to me in Mexico."