ACTRESS EIZA GONZÁLEZ Getting In on the Action

THE MEXICAN-BORN STAR OVERCAME TRAGEDY AND BUILT A THRIVING CAREER—WITH SOME HELP FROM HER MOM

- ERIC ANDERSSON

Eiza González fondly remembers her first big splurge: a pair of $300 Steve Madden shoes she bought when she was a teenager. On a trip to Miami with her mom, former model Glenda Reyna, now 73, González—flush with cash after landing a job on a Mexican TV show—spotted the footwear and got permission to get them. “It was a lot of money,” says the actress, who kept the shoes for years. “I would clean them. I’d make sure that they were perfect.”

Working With an Idol "I wanted to be an actress thanks to her," González says of Fountain of Youth costar Natalie Portman (right, with Krasinski).

That dedication has served her well through the years as González, 35, has steadily built her career, raising her profile in Mexico before breaking out in the U.S. in the 2014-16 horror series From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series. Since then she has appeared in hit movies (2017’s Baby Driver) and sci-fi series (Netflix’s current 3 Body Problem) and become a muse for director Guy Ritchie, who has worked with her on three projects. In Ritchie’s latest, the Indiana Jones-esque movie