Sofía Vergara on remaking herself as “Griselda”

For 11 seasons, we came to know Sofía Vergara as the feisty, funny Gloria Pritchett in the ABC sitcom “Modern Family.” Three years after the series ended, Vergara is back with something completely different. In her new role, the 51-year-old is a chain-smoking, bat-swinging, gun-wielding killer. “All of my focus was that people were not going to see Gloria Pritchett,” Vergara said. “That’s what I wanted people not to see.”

“Griselda,” the Netflix series out later this month, tells the story of Griselda Blanco, a single mother of four and a notorious cartel leader. “She was this Colombian woman in the ’70s and the ’80s that actually took over the drug dealing business, not only in Colombia, [but] here in the United States, too,” Vergara said. “I mean, for me as a woman, I was fascinated: How did she become even more ruthless, more horrific than any man?”