M&C: When I watch the show, your Miguel seems more enamored of appearances than a depth of feelings when it comes to Emily. She looks the part of this perfect wife created in your mind. And relationships rarely survive contempt. There’s a contemptuous undercurrent going on. Can you talk about that?
Danny Pino: Well, I think there’s a lot of finger-pointing in terms of who’s responsible for our son being kidnapped. I think that in that world to have … I think he values and loves Emily deeply.
There aren’t very many men in his position who would take recommendations from anybody outside of his corporate circle. And she certainly is outside of that corporate circle at the beginning of our story.
He values her and respects her so much that we’ve already seen him take her advice over his own consigliere’s advice, to the point where Devante might start feeling threatened by Emily being so involved. I think that his vulnerability is his love for his family.
And had he not loved Emily to the point that he loves her, I think his knowing that she is lying to him about her meeting with EZ would not have been as emotional. It would’ve been easy to cut her off.
It would’ve been maybe even a death sentence to cut her off, because him looking weak to anybody could be a death sentence for him.
He protects her. He trusts her to a certain extent. And I think that all of that is true because there is such deep love for her, which makes Galindo human. That’s his vulnerability.
We all have our Achilles’ heel. Some people hide it more than others and I think Galindo has done a pretty good job thus far of hiding it, but he is being absolutely exposed right now. And that’s why he’s off-kilter. That’s why he’s having such a difficult time figuring out where true north is for him.
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