Watch Will Smith Imitate Rafael Amaya Character Aurelio Casillas From ‘El Señor De Los Cielos’

Arre! Will Smith sure knows how to keep the Latin audience entertained. At the red carpet of the premiere of his new movie “Suicide Squad,” where he plays Floyd Lawton or Deadshot, an expert marksman and assassin, a mercenary by day and a concerned father by nigh, he was asked to imitate Aurelio Casillas, the most famous villain of Latin television, a murderous, narcissistic drug kingpin who seeks power and respect as he eludes the incompetent DEA and corrupt Mexican authorities.

Casillas, main character of Telemundo’s “El Señor de los Cielos,” has a very distinctive word he uses to call for action at any given circumstance: Arre! That’s why, when presented with the opportunity to roll his R’s, Will Smith had to say yes. “As you know Latinos, we’re huge on novelas,” said the interviewer to give Smith some context. “At Telemundo, we have our biggest novela star who is actually a villain… and his name is ‘El Señor de los Cielos.’ And you know what? His most famous line is ‘Arre,’ and we wanted to see you do the ‘Arre!’”

Of course, Smith began preparing right away, repeating the word a few times until he delivered a big, intense “Arre” that definitely proved he could totally nail the character. His Aurelio Casillas impersonation with a darker twist even impressed Rafael Amaya, the actor who plays the druglord in the Telemundo show, who even took to Twitter to praise Smith and say he would make a “bad ass Aurelio Casillas.”

“El Señor de los Cielos” is a fictional story inspired by the life of Armando Carrillo, a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. He became known as “The Lord of the Skies” because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. The Telemundo show follows Aurelio Casillas, the biggest drug lord in Mexico during the 1990s, whose great ambition was to become the most rich and powerful man.

Suicide Squad is a superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team of the same name. In the movie, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat in exchange for clemency. Smith’s character, Deadshot is a conflicted criminal who enjoys the hunt, but is still trying to do right by his young daughter.