Salma Hayek is a poker-faced cartel queen. Benicio Del Toro is a masked enforcer, gritty as the Tijuana he seems to both love and loathe. Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson both sell pot and share a girlfriend, played by Blake Lively.
Indeed, the first five videos teasing the July 6 release of Oliver Stone's "Savages" offer a peek into the film's dark, drug-fueled narrative.
Sitting in front of a screen depicting clips of his violent "enforcement" techniques, Lado, Del Toro's character, muses about his inability to exit his life in the drug trade as a bluntly inquisitive Stone poses questions off camera.
"Why are you wearing the mask?" Stone asks, pointing on the Dia de los Muertos-esque skeleton mask covering everything below Lado's eyes.
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Lado taps his finger tips together anxiously and unconvincingly responds, "What mask?"
"Is it because you work as an enforcer for the Tijuana drug cartel?" Stone continues.
"I wish I was a lizard cause I can't escape Tijuana, it just follows me like a tail I can't cut off," Lado says. "I wish I could be a lizard and cut it right off."
Have a look at the videos below and tell us what you think: