Deadly Netflix Crash Prompts Mexico to Investigate Hiring Practices

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyOn June 16, a van carrying eight cast and crew members from Netflix’s The Chosen One swerved off the road and crashed in a desert area on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, near Santa Rosalía. Actors Juán Francisco González Aguilar (known professionally as Paco Mufote) and Raymundo Garduño Cruz, both beloved in the Tijuana arts and theater community, died in the accident.Since then, friends of the victims have called for an investigation, and some Mexican observers have raised questions about Netflix and Redrum, the production outlet behind the TV series, suggesting the film crew was overworked and operating in unsafe working conditions as the companies cut corners to save money.Netflix declined to comment for this story, and Redrum’s CEO Stacy Perskie did not return messages left by The Daily Beast.Read more at The Daily Beast.