Cast
- Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi
- Salma Hayek as Carolina
- Johnny Depp as Sheldon Jeffrey Sands
- Willem Dafoe as Armando Barillo
- Eva Mendes as Ajedrez Barillo
- Danny Trejo as Cucuy
- Mickey Rourke as Billy Chambers
- Rubén Blades as Retired FBI Special Agent Jorge Ramírez
- Enrique Iglesias as Lorenzo
- Marco Leonardi as Fideo
- Gerardo Vigil as General Emiliano Marquez
- Miguel Couturier as Dr. Guevera
- Cheech Marin as Belini
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Mexican President
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Nicholas
In a 2003 issue of Rolling Stone, Depp was named as one of its "People of the Year", and gave an interview in which he briefly discussed his role as Sands: "The idea behind him is there was this guy I used to know in Hollywood, in the business, who on the outside was very charming – soft-spoken and almost hypnotic in the rhythm he used to speak. He refused to call me Johnny – always called me John. You knew this guy was aiming to fuck you over, but somehow you stuck around because he was just so fascinating to watch." Depp also said in an Entertainment Weekly article that he "imagine this guy wore really cheesy tourist shirts", that he had a "sideline obsession with Broadway", and that he favored strange, obvious disguises – all three qualities can be observed in the film. It was also revealed in the director's commentary on the DVD that Depp himself came up with the character's first and middle names.
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