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How Sofia Vergara’s Makeup Transformed Her ‘Exotic Face’ Into Drug Lord Griselda Blanco With Bucked Teeth, Prosthetics and Flat Hair in Netflix Drama

Sofia Vergara left behind her beloved character Gloria Pritchett in “Modern Family” when the show ended in 2020, and now the actress has returned to portraying dynamic figures in Netflix’s “Griselda,” which premiered on Netflix on Thursday. In the series, Vergara plays Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug dealer who built an empire during the Miami drug wars in the 1970s and 1980s.  While preparing for the series, Vergara found herself in a dilemma: How does one convince the audience that they are no longer a light-hearted, comical and incredibly well-known character, but instead a durg trafficker who was also known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and “The Black Widow,” among other threatening nicknames?  To help her on this mission, Vergara enlisted the power of makeup.  Sofia Vergara in “Griselda.” “Getting the look correct was very important to me because I needed to disappear. I wanted no one to think of me or my last role as Gloria Pritchett,” Vergara said in a statement released by Netflix. “I had an incredible hair and makeup design team that did an amazing job creating this character.”  According to Andrés Baiz, director and executive producer of “Griselda,” the goal was to make Vergara feel like she was someone else. “Any difference

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