Sofía Vergara picked up some new abilities whereas filming her new present.
The “Modern Family” actor spoke to Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday about starring within the forthcoming Netflix miniseries “Griselda.”
The present relies on the lifetime of Griselda Blanco, a Colombian drug trafficker who dominated Miami’s prison underworld within the ’70s and ’80s and developed a status because the “Godmother of Cocaine.”
Vergara praised director Andrés Baiz for instructing her how you can play the half.
“I didn’t know anything,” she mentioned. “He taught me how to smoke. He taught me how to do cocaine. He taught me a lot.”
“Alright, hold on, hold on,” Fallon interrupted. But Vergara wasn’t accomplished.
“It was amazing because I was 51 years old and I didn’t even know how to, you know, how to light a cigarette,” she added. “I’ve never done cocaine. So it’s like, it was amazing. It was like, a great experience.”
As the viewers roared with laughter, she realized her error. “No, no!” she mentioned, laughing.
“The cocaine that I did was fake,” she clarified. “But I had to pretend. The cigarettes are also fake. Everything was, it’s fake.”
“But the acting was real,” she added, sending Fallon right into a match of giggles.
“Griselda” is ready for launch on Netflix on Jan. 25.
Watch under on “The Tonight Show.”
