Do we like Diego Luna?
Our score: 8 out of 10. Decent record on both tests with one old casting row, though our sources on his good deeds are thin.
Start with the harm check, because it's the main thing you asked. Luna has been loud about immigration in the US, and in January 2026 he spoke about ICE actions spreading panic and keeping whole communities on permanent alert. That's a bloke using a big platform for people with less of one.
The one real blemish is old. In 2019 early reports said he played a trans woman in Berlin, I Love You, and critics objected to a cisgender man in that role. The director then said the character is a drag queen, not a trans woman, and the piece we read carried no statement from Luna himself. Call it a casting wobble, not a pattern.
The recent stoush is about football. In a Spanish radio interview in June 2026 he called ticket prices for the World Cup “imposibles para un país como México”, and said the sport had become like opera. He's on the side of the regular fan, and he's willing to say it out loud.
Then there's Mexico 86, his Netflix satire about how Mexico won the right to host the 1986 World Cup. In an NPR interview he said “It's not a secret how much corruption surrounds FIFA, you know?” He's clearly happy to poke at powerful institutions rather than flatter them.
On the good-person test, the standout is the courtroom. In April 2026 Mexico's Supreme Court ruled in his favour over the use of his image in a 2011 whisky ad, saying the payout can't be less than 40% of the product's sales. A related win for him and Gael García Bernal had been reported back in January 2022, so this was a long, patient fight against a big company.
The record here is thin in places. We found no convictions, no abuse allegations we could verify, and no harmful company. We also couldn't confirm the charity side from pages we opened, so the score stops short of the top. As far as the reporting goes, he's a safe one to like.