Gangster Squad VS End of Watch: Michael Peña's Pick For Best Cop Role

Details: Category: Interviews; Created: Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:00; Published: Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:30; Written by Lupe Haas

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Michael Peña plays an LAPD cop in the gritty-urban thriller in End Of Watch coming to Blu-ray and you can currently catch him in Gangster Squad as a 50s Los Angeles police officer riding alongside Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, and Sean Penn. The Latino actor tells CineMovie which LAPD character was more bad-ass to play.

Michael Peña plays LAPD cops in two back-to-back movies. FIrst, he took on the role of a modern day police officer on the mean streets of Los Angeles with Jake Gyllenhaal as his partner which you can catch on Blu-ray and DVD starting January 22nd. Currently in movie theaters, the Chicago native can be seen as an LAPD rogue cop in the period drama Gangster Squad. Which movie was it more fun to play an LAPD officer?

Watch the video to find out.

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David Ayer's End Of Watch received positive reviews from fans and critics, and brought note-worthy performances from Michael and his co-star Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña play partners on the LAPD force patrolling the mean streets of south central Los Angeles. Shot in first-person style, the story makes use of handheld HD cameras in police cars, surveillance cameras and their surroundings to tell the story of two cops who stumble onto the Mexican cartel drug ring and become targets for the dangerous gang.

Michael can also be seen with an all-star cast in the period drama GANGSTER SQUAD as part of an elite LAPD force ordered to take down mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) who moves to Los Angeles to take over a crime ring. The film is loosely based on real events when the LAPD took extreme measures in the 1950s to take back the city of angels from the most dangerous mafioso around. Watch trailer.