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See Sofia Vergara’s transformation into one of Miami’s most ruthless drug kingpins

Sofia Vergara arriving at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2023, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles on March 12, 2023.
Sofia Vergara arriving at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2023, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles on March 12, 2023. PA Images/Alamy Images/Sipa USA

Talk about your extreme makeovers.

Sofia Vergara looks absolutely unrecognizable in a newly dropped trailer for her next project, “Griselda.”

In an upcoming Netflix miniseries, the “Modern Family” star plays drug lord Griselda Blanco, aka La Madrina (The Godmother), who ran the streets during Miami’s so-called Cocaine Cowboys era.

Netflix teased a pretty shocking photo of Vergara as Blanco back in January, and now the trailer just dropped.

In the clip, with eerie violin music playing in the background, Vergara stands in a room full of drug dealers (all men) and says in a gravely voice, “I’ve heard that you like my product ... We can make a lot of money together.”

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The camera then pans to the 50 year old actress, wearing a a prosthetic nose and a terrifying grimace.

“Griselda Blanco was a larger-than-life character whose ruthless but ingenious tactics allowed her to rule a billion-dollar empire years before many of the most notorious male kingpins we know so much about,” the “America’s Got Talent” judge said in a statement when the show, was first announced in late 2021.

Partially filmed in Miami (one scene clearly take place by the pool at the old Versace mansion), the crime drama is set to start streaming on Jan. 25, 2024.

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Madeleine Marr
Miami Herald
Celebrity/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper’s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.
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