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Article: Separate Visions, Shared Passion; Filmmakers Cuaron, Del Toro Keep Each Other Going. Honestly. [Correction 1/3/07]
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 24, 2006
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Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo Del Toro are chatting, as they
usually do, over the phone, reminiscing about their friendship of 20-
plus years.
Since starting out in Mexican television, their lives and careers
have intertwined uncannily through the years, from their auspicious
debuts (Cuaron's "Love in the Time of Hysteria" and Del Toro's
"Cronos") through their biggest hits (Cuaron's "Y Tu Mama Tambien"
and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"; Del Toro's "Blade
II").
And now, with their usual perfect symmetry, Cuaron -- 45,
handsome, soft spoken -- and Del Toro -- 42, generously built,
voluble, with a Puckish gleam in the blue eyes peering from behind
owlish glasses -- have ...