Diego Luna reveals which character he never intends to play again

The character that Diego Luna claims he has no interest in playing again is **Tenoch Iturbide**, protagonist of the award-winning Mexican film **"And His Mother Too" (*Y Tu Mamá También*)**, released in 2001. Although the film was one of the most responsible for launching his international career, the actor believes that a sequel would be a mistake. When commenting on the frequent questions about a possible return to the character, Luna was direct: **"It could be a disaster."** :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2} Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, the film follows friends Tenoch and Julio during a car trip alongside an older woman, played by Maribel Verdú. The production became a landmark in Mexican cinema and opened doors for Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal to gain worldwide recognition. Despite the enormous affection he feels for the project, Luna states that the story belongs to a specific moment in the characters' lives and also in the history of cinema. According to him, trying to recreate that experience decades later would lose precisely what made the film special. The actor also remembers that the end of the work definitively ends the friendship between the protagonists, making any attempt at continuation unnecessary just for commercial reasons. The declaration comes during a period of enormous success for Diego Luna thanks to the series "Andor", from the Star Wars universe, a production that consolidated his position among the main Latin American actors in Hollywood. Even so, the artist makes a point of separating his current projects from the work that revealed him to the world, arguing that some films should remain exactly as they were originally conceived. For Diego Luna, "And His Mother Too" continues to be a unique and unrepeatable experience - and that's precisely why Tenoch is a character he prefers to leave definitively in the past.