With a platform like Amazon backing El Presidente, Bó’s vision of a global story rooted in Latin America feels all the more refreshing. ‘El Presidente.’ Courtesy of Amazon Studios. Played by Karla Souza in a variety of wigs and accents, Jadue’s erstwhile handler is all too happy to exploit his foolish antics even as they risk her own investigation. On his heels and pushing him to do the right thing in collaborating with investigations into FIFA’s practices is an undercover FBI agent who’s passing herself as a flirty waitress. Jadue, who is clearly out of his league from the get-go, stumbling onto his high-ranking role almost by accident, exemplifies how utterly ridiculous and alluring the draw of rigging games, cashing in and otherwise running soccer leagues like personal ATMs with perks aplenty. It’s not so violent, it’s not so terrible.” Instead, the tone of the miniseries is one that straddles the line between a high-stakes thriller and a hilarious satire. “I didn’t want to do a boring corruption scandal,” Bó shares, “Because this is not Narcos. The ripped from the headlines drama follows the unraveling of the corruption scandal that rocked FIFA back in 2015 through the eyes of Sergio Jadue (Andrés Parra), the bumbling head of a small Chilean football club who became integral in bringing down the renowned soccer organization from within. He found a perfect match in Amazon’s El Presidente. He’d also had such a good time wading into the dark comedy at the heart of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Hollywood satire that he was eager to find a project equally attuned to that sensibility. Following the success of Birdman, for which Armando Bó won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, the Argentine filmmaker knew he wanted to find something bigger, broader, more global.
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