Gael Garcia Bernal is on cloud nine!
Not only did the series that he stars in, "Mozart in the Jungle," win Best Musical or Comedy Television Series at the Golden Globes Sunday night, he also won Best Actor for his role as Rodrigo De Souza, the young, talented and hilarious symphony conductor in the Amazon series.
"Mozart in the Jungle" began airing in 2014, but it was only in its current and second season that it won its first Golden Globe.
According to Latina, when "Mozart in the Jungle" first came out, Gael Garcia Bernal excitedly described the symphony series to them:
"The world it's set in. It's fantastic! The world of classical music. It's brilliant. It's fun. It's small as well. It's ten episodes of half an hour each. And, it's just the curiosity of doing it. Being in New York. The people who are doing it. The story is pretty good. I like it."
So what makes Gael Garcia Bernal and "Mozart in the Jungle" extra special and worthy of the accolades?
Below are 10 trivia you may not know about the actor and the series.
Gael Garcia Bernal
1. Even before his current Golden Globe Award, Mexican director and actor Gael Garcia Bernal was already given the Award for Excellence in Acting during the 2008 Provincetown International Film Festival.
2. He also appeared as Santiago in 2006's "Bable," a film about an accident that connects four groups of people located in three continents. The film, nominated for seven film awards, won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score.
3. According to Famous Birthdays, the 37-year-old actor already expressed interest in acting since his teenage years, starring in telenovelas like "Teresa" (1989) and "El abuelo y yo" (1992).
4. Gael Garcia Bernal is an actor with a heart. He was part of the Chiapas uprising in 1994, which involved the Mexican state of Chiapas' indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers.
5. His parents had been a big influence to his career. His mother, Patricia Bernal, was an actress, while his father, Jose Angel Garcia, is a director.
"Mozart in the Jungle"
1. The second season of the show, which won at the Golden Globes on Sunday, premiered its entirety on December 30.
2. A sincere comedy with a crazy sensibility, the series follows a group of classical musicians who are part of a fictional New York symphony and are faced with challenges in keeping classical music symphonies alive in the world of music streaming. As a result, high and low cultures collide in this comedy series.
3. According to Vulture, the symphony series is inspired by Blair Tindall's "classical-music insider's memoir," "Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music." However, "Mozart in the Jungle" provides a more gentle look into the world of classical music, which merges with its "prevailing aesthetic" of the playful modern world - roommate and money troubles, messy romances and lost instruments, among others.
4. In the first season, the recurring theme was of classical music as belonging to the concert hall and possibly out of it. The second season takes classical music outside of the concert hall and into the "jungle" with a series of performances in unexpected places, such as a youth symphony performing in a Mexico plaza.
5. "Mozart in the Jungle" is basically about how classical music will survive in the current world. The audience is given a taste of the absurd while defending a near extinct art form.
Check out Gael Garcia Bernal backstage after his big win at the Golden Globes: