Getting Naked With Mary-Louise Parker (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) - One minute Demin Bichir never heard of Weeds, the next minute hes filming love scenes for the series with star Mary-Louise Parker.

My girlfriend, shes a great fan of Weeds, Bichir tells me in his thick Mexican accent. When she heard that I had this audition for that, she told me, You know what? This is it. This is one of the greatest shows ever!

Bichir--so famous in Latin America that hes known as the George Clooney of Mexico--made his Weeds debut this season playing the mayor of Tijuana, who becomes intimately involved with Parkers pot-dealing suburban mom, Nancy Botwin.

They told me that these characters might get involved with each other and get some relationship going on there, the 45-year-old Bichir says. Then when I watched the past seasons, I realized how open it was.

The steamy scenes, however, came easily to Bichir. Im kind of used to it because every film Ive done before, Im always making love to a beautiful woman or running around naked, he says.

Thats certainly a far cry from director Steven Soderberghs Che, in which Bichir plays Fidel Castro opposite Benicio Del Toros Che Guevara. The film chronicles Guevaras 1964 trip to New York City to address the United Nations.

Bichir chooses his words carefully when asked if he thinks Cubas standing in international politics will ever improve. Its really deeper than we know and deeper than we get to know, he says. Its hard. All I can say is, they still have the best doctors working for no money and they still have great athletes. Take my word for this, theyre going to get more medals from Beijing than Mexico, and Mexico is a quote/unquote democracy.

Now, lets get back to the Clooney comparisons. You know, Bichir says, its fine with me, because I think George Clooney is one of the greatest actors.

He then adds with a laugh, I guess its better than being called the Homer Simpson of Mexico.

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