When you see Eiza González walking down a red carpet, you wouldn’t know it, but she might just be one of the busiest actors in the business. In late 2022, after wrapping an 11-month shoot for her upcoming Netflix series The Three Body Problem, the actor flew to Mexico to film La Máquina, then moved to London for a year (where she is now) to play the only female role in Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Next she heads to New Zealand for the upcoming movie Ash, followed by a stop in Croatia to shoot another project. But that’s how she likes it. “Who else gets the opportunity to say that they can travel the world to do what [they] love? I cannot, in any shape or form, complain. I’m actually incredibly grateful.”
It’s clear that González has a fervent love for a profession that people spend their whole lives chasing. She also has a shrewd eye for selecting her projects. Based on some of her biggest credits—, , —one might assume that she had a penchant for action thrillers, but she dismisses that observation, saying that most of her decisions are director for “taking a risk” on her. “He has allowed me to do things that no other director has ever allowed me to do. One that I can probably mention without being a spoiler is that he allowed me [to] play a full British character, and I have to do a British accent.”
