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Diego Boneta knew he wanted to write a sexy, steamy murder mystery for his first novel. “And I also really wanted it to be a novel that was a great summer read.” That’s exactly what he’s done with The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco. Set in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the story follows a mysterious young man, Julian Villareal, who arrives at the estate of his friend and tennis rival, Alejandro Velasco, after his sudden death. “You think he’s this super rich kid from Mexico City, who’s studying at UCLA, and then you slowly start realizing that he’s not who he says he is.” The book is also being adapted by Amazon MGM Studios as an original series. “It’s my first time doing this, where it’s acting out a character that I wrote in a novel.” But for Boneta, whose father was a “national [tennis] champion in Mexico [and] played Wimbledon,” he’s more than prepared to play Julian. “Julian is something that I already have in my DNA, because we’ve been working on this for so long now, I just want to make sure that it’s the best version of the show that it can be for audiences to be entertained.”
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Diego Boneta knew he wanted to write a sexy, steamy murder mystery for his first novel. “And I also really wanted it to be a novel that was a great summer read.” That’s exactly what he’s done with The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco. Set in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the story follows a mysterious young man, Julian Villareal, who arrives at the estate of his friend and tennis rival, Alejandro Velasco, after his sudden death. “You think he’s this super rich kid from Mexico City, who’s studying at UCLA, and then you slowly start realizing that he’s not who he says he is.” The book is also being adapted by Amazon MGM Studios as an original series. “It’s my first time doing this, where it’s acting out a character that I wrote in a novel.” But for Boneta, whose father was a “national [tennis] champion in Mexico [and] played Wimbledon,” he’s more than prepared to play Julian. “Julian is something that I already have in my DNA, because we’ve been working on this for so long now, I just want to make sure that it’s the best version of the show that it can be for audiences to be entertained.”
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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