Sofia Vergara channels 70s in floral top and jean shorts playing ‘Cocaine Godmother’ Griselda Blanco

Sofia Vergara was noticed onerous at work this week on the Los Angeles set of her upcoming Netflix miniseries.

The 49-year-old, who shot to international fame on the sitcom Modern Family, is moving into the function of the notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco, aka ‘Cocaine Godmother.’

She might be glimpsed arriving on the set sporting a fluttery loose-fitted dress and a face defend – earlier than switching into her interval costume.

Her Griselda look, which included a flashy floral shirt tucked right into a wide-set pair of lengthy denim pencil skirt, was immediately paying homage to the Seventies.

Another one among her Seventies outfits featured an aquamarine shirt that she tucked right into a high-waisted pair of bell backside denims.

The showrunner of her new collection is Ingrid Escajeda, who has written on such TV applications as Sneaky Pete, Justified, Better Off Ted and Empire. 

Griselda was beforehand portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones in a 2018 Lifetime film known as Cocaine Godmother. 

Jennifer Lopez is now slated play her in a film known as The Godmother co-written by The Wolf Of Wall Street screenwriter Terence Winter.

Griselda’s son Michael spoke completely to DailyMail.com in 2020 and slammed the J-Lo movie, saying: ‘I simply discover it greater than a tad offensive that they’d attempt to do one thing with out consulting me and my household, the remaining Blancos.’

‘Cocaine Godmother’ was one among Griselda’s many nicknames – over time she was also referred to as ‘La Madrina’ (‘The Godmother’) and ‘The Black Widow.’

Born in Colombia in 1943, Griselda swiftly grew to become a ruthless prison who in line with Maxim dedicated her first homicide when she was 11 and her sufferer was 10.

In the Seventies she made her bones as a brutally vengeful, groundbreaking participant in the Colombia-to-Miami drug commerce that flowered throughout that decade and the one after. 

Griselda married a number of instances and produced 4 youngsters, the youngest of whom she named – in a flash of darkish humor – Michael Corleone Blanco.

In the mid-Nineteen Eighties Griselda was thrown in jail for 3 murders, two of drug sellers and one among a two-year-old boy.

She was set unfastened in 2004 and deported to Colombia, and in 2012 a motorcyclist shot her useless outdoors a Medellin butcher store.

Sofia is herself no stranger to crime in Colombia, as her elder brother Rafael was tragically murdered there in 1998 when an abduction try went south.

‘We come from a profitable household, and he knew he was a goal for kidnapping,’ defined Sofia, whose father was a cattle farmer.

‘He at all times had bodyguards. Then someday he went out alone and was shot useless. I used to be devastated,’ she added, in line with the New York Post.