Gael García Bernal

Michel Gondry enters my office and I ask if he would like something to drink: coffee, tea or water? He says, "hot chocolate." Wanting to please him but also not knowing if my office kitchen has the requested winter beverage, I momentarily panic, then see the appropriate button on the drink machine next to the ice maker. It delivers a shot of foamy brown liquid, followed by hot water. I deliver a sad coffee cup full of the stuff to the filmmaker of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless M...

In "No," 34-year-old Guadalajara-born actor and filmmaker Gael Garcia Bernal plays a cocky Santiago, Chile, advertising man who has thrived under the economic policies of the nation's U.S.-backed ruler, Augusto Pinochet. Asked to concoct a TV advertising campaign to bring down Pinochet in the 1988 plebiscite, he's intrigued — not necessarily because he's a stealth radical (though his father, we're told, was sent into political exile to Mexico) but because the "no" vote is deemed by many to be...