"In Mexico, you're always asked where Gael is, like if you're by yourself then you are nothing."

The Mexican blockbuster Rudo y Cursi is the first film that Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal have costarred in since Y Tu Mama Tambien, the much acclaimed 2001 indie coming-of-age film that simultaneously put Mexican cinema on the Hollywood circuit and catapulted these childhood friends into stardom. The film also marks the first release by Cha Cha Cha Films, the production company founded by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros, Babel), and Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien). Not coincidentally, Rudo y Cursi is directed by Carlos Cuaron, Alfonso's brother. In the film, Garcia Bernal and Luna star as stepbrothers who quit their farm jobs to play professional soccer in Mexico City, where hilarity ensues. We recently talked to Luna--who presents his new film tomorrow, along with Garcia Bernal, at a Museum of Moving Image-sponsored screening at the AMC Loews on 19th Steet--about his experience making this rags-to-riches dramedy and the enduring, dynamic bond between him and his best friend.