SAN SEBASTIAN (EFE).— Enchanted by San Sebastian and its audience, Jessica Chastain quietly returned to her visit to the Spanish city and, having arrived on Mondays to present “Memory” at the film festival, left to see her and pose for your fans with great naturalness.
“Usually we come to a festival with plenty of time to introduce the film, talk to the press and hit the road, but now we have a couple of days and it’s been wonderful,” I said at a meeting with reporters, a few hours before the pre-show. screening of the film under the direction of the Mexican Michel Franco.
The Oscar winner for The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), wearing a black minidress, white shirt and grunge suede loafers, said she visited the Guggenheim Museums Bilbao and Balenciaga de Getaria, both in the Vasco region, at the same time from San Sebastian.
I also visited San Sebastian, saw some films at the festival and enjoyed puppets and other street performances.
“I love the audience of the festival (San Sebastian), when I arrived at the hotel I was amazed by all the people who were waiting for it, it’s precious, I believe there is no other festival of this kind in the world. “You’re welcome,” said the actress, who wore an apoyo blouse modeled after the Hollywood actors’ union.
Chastain rose to fame in 2011 with new films like The Tree of Life and Take Shelter, and in 2016 founded her own production, Freckle Films, from which she has produced numerous productions by and for women.
In the independent film Memento, directed by Mexican director Michel Franco, she plays a woman with a history of violence and alcoholism who enters into a relationship with a man suffering from dementia.
“This is the first film to ever win an Oscar, and it was clear that I didn’t want to do anything else set in this story,” he said.
“Sometimes in big films you can’t be creative, you pay to be seen in the trailer hoping you like it, but working with Michel is like working in the theatre, you know every part of you is needed and involved. “, he commented.
The rod was deployed in New York City, with many scenes on the street and in the subway. Sometimes they don’t realize it, but otherwise they have to deal with the “paparazzi”.
“I usually look for them and I know that if you have a photo, then we need to work and for the general purposes it works, we show empathy and humanity, we talk about them like a human being, they treat you like a person. – said the actress.
Franco says of her that she is “the best actress in the world”, that in her books you can see things that the same thing does not see, and that she makes her job easier.
“Jessica (Chastain) has a very interesting life, personal things that people don’t know about her that we can use to benefit the film,” the Mexican director said during a press conference.