Before he was cast as the villainous Hotel Manager Cormac in Peacock's upcoming "John Wick" spin-off miniseries "The Continental," Mel Gibson was a celebrated director best known for back-to-back successes "Braveheart" and "The Passion of the Christ." His last film before a somewhat involuntary ten-year break (after an indefensible display of antisemitism would see him blacklisted in Hollywood) was the 2006 historical thriller "Apocalypto," in which Raoul Max Trujillo starred as the ruthless Mayan warrior Zero Wolf.
In a 2011 interview with the blog Straight 2 DVD, Trujillo described the production process as "one of the hardest shoots [he's] ever done." From starting his elaborate hair and makeup routine to wrapping up the daily shoot, he had to work as much as 17 hours a day. "As you can figure, not much time to sleep," he told the blog. Though Trujillo welcomed the end of the "brutal" ten-month experience, he stated that he "enjoyed the results immensely."
On whether or not he'd join another one of Gibson's projects in the future, Trujillo admitted the circumstances would have to be very different. Though he spoke generously of the director on a personal and professional level, he called Gibson a "dictator" and stated, "I'd work with him again but ask for way more money for the suffering."
