Mexican director Gilmour del Toro, 57, admitted to marrying screenwriter Kim Morgan in May. He didn't make the news public until November, as mysterious as his movie.
Before becoming a director, Toro wrote scripts for 16 years, many of which were not made into films. Now that I have found a screenwriter's wife, the homework of the two is basically to play the script to kill it.
Toro's private life has always been very hidden. Toro had a long marriage with his first wife, Lorenzo Newton, and had two daughters. They separated in February 2017 and completed divorce procedures in September.
At the 2018 Oscars, Kim Morgan was with Toro, and many people wondered who this woman was. Toro, who won the Oscar for best director for The Shape of Water, said he would dedicate the award to Kim Morgan. That's when people started paying attention to their relationships.
Both were relatively low-key, so their friends in the May wedding circle were barely aware of it until Toro introduced his wife to friends at the Art and Film Fraternity at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Toro and Morgan met in 2018 when they were filming Jade Face, and have not been separated since. The film is based on the novel Ecstasy Alley, which tells the story of a prostitute and a fortune teller who cooperate to defraud people of money. The cast is very strong, including: Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Kate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper, etc.
The film stars a lot of beautiful women and is visually impactful, and will be released in North America on December 17. This film has a slight violent and dusty tendency, belongs to the R-rated film, and will not be introduced in China. Toro's adventure to make such a film tested Hollywood's acceptance.
Gilmour del Toro was born in 1964 in Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, raised by a Catholic grandmother. In his 10s, Toro became interested in making movies. He learned makeup and special effects with legendary filmmaker Dick Smith and made his own short films.
At the age of 21, Toro made his first feature film, Doña Herlinda y su hijo. After that, Toro spent 10 years as a makeup artist and founded his own company, Necropia, where he worked on movies and directed TV shows.
In 1993, Toro's Cronos won mexico's Oscars, the Nine Heavens Award, and then the International Critics' Week Award at the Cannes Film Festival. After his success, Toro entered Hollywood, directing Mutant DNA in 1997.
In the process of working with a production company in Hollywood, Toro suffered some misfortunes. So he returned to Mexico and founded his own production company, The Tequila Gang.
In 2001, Toro released El espinazo del diablo, a film about ghost stories during the Spanish Civil War. The film was once again loved by critics and audiences, so he decided to enter Hollywood for the second time. This time he succeeded, and his films Blade Runner 2 and Hellboy both made good box office successes.
Today, Toro's love career has been harvested. For the director, fifty or sixty years old is the golden age, and I hope that the couple will produce more masterpieces.
Toro's films always have a wild imagination, and Toro has tried to convey this imagination in a book called "The Fantastic Ideas of Guillermo del Toro". This book is a personal show of how Del Toro's brain works, like a sophisticated machine that depicts its favorite movies in detail, trying to connect the jumping imaginations and show his frightening but brilliant creative ideas.
In addition, from the book, we can see Del Toro's vast collection- as if the collector's fetish meets the dark taste artist, which reflects his strange inner, chaotic thinking, and emotionally strong mind.
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