He joined up again with the director of Amoros Perros for the well - received drama Babel
opposite Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Bernal made his directorial
debut with 2007's Deficit, and had a major part in the
big screen adaptation of Blindness in 2008.
He made his
big -
screen debut in Lone Scherfig's The Riot Club
opposite Sam Claflin and Douglas Booth and roles soon followed working with Stephen Frears both in The Program and Florence Foster Jenkins, alongside Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.