'Ted Lasso' actor Cristo Fernández went back 'home' for his new movie
Actor Cristo Fernández, known for his role as Dani Rojas in "Ted Lasso," is one of the stars and executive producers of the adventure-comedy movie "Las Tres Sisters," filmed in the Mexican city where he grew up.
The actor known to fans around the globe as the exuberant soccer player Dani Rojas in the hit Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” is back — but this time as a botanist, healer and love interest in the adventure-comedy movie “Las Tres Sisters,” out in theaters on Friday.
The movie, which he also executive-produced, was filmed in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Cristo Fernández grew up.
“I’ve learned so much from other cultures,” Fernández told NBC News in a video interview with the movie cast. “Personally, the more I travel, the more I am away, I appreciate more my hometown, my family, my friends.”
The film focuses on three sisters: María (Marta Méndez Cross), Lucía (Valeria Maldonado) and Sofía (Virginia Novello), who try to untangle their complex relationship — and years of estrangement —while toggling between their Americanized life in the U.S. and their family’s Mexican homeland.
Marta Méndez Cross, Virginia Novello, and Valeria Maldonado in Las Tres Sisters, 2025.Las Tres SistersViewers will soon learn that María was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she tricks her younger sisters into going on a six-day hike through rural Mexico to follow the footsteps of their grandmother: It turns out to be a 135-mile trek to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Talpa de Allende.
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