Jessica Chastain is obsessed with Mexico… and Mexico with her

MORELIA, MI, October 22 (EL UNIVERSAL). Jessica Chastain Rie when you look at the words “chilaquiles” and “Mexican tacos.” He does this in a strange way, since his relationship with Mexico has been highlighted in the last few months by the filming of a pair of films under the direction of director Michel Franco: “Memory” and “Dreams.”

The first of these, launched in New York, took place at the international film festival that started in Morelia and hopes to launch in the EU later this year; and in the second he shares loans with Mexican bailiff Isaac Hernandez; he was in the Mexican capital. “I’m obsessed with Mexican food and margaritas. When I went to Mexico City, I asked, and now I don’t meet anywhere else,” says the actress in a conversation with EL UNIVERSAL.

Memento is a drama starring the Oscar winner for The Eyes of Tammy Fay with Peter Sarsgaard (Batman and Jackie) and tells the story of a woman who was abused as a child and the relationships she begins. with a man who is losing his memories.

The actress’s relationship with Franco was the highlight of “The New Order,” a film by the Venice-born Mexican director, and soon received acclaim.

Agents of both made contact, sent her a manual and after a few weeks gave her the opportunity to work in the belt, where Ouspensky has nothing to do with those who worked in such belts as “Darkest Night” and “Darkest Night”. “It: Chapter II.”

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As Sylvia, she is a woman who, wanting to come to terms with what she loves, goes on a search for healing, something that allows her to watch and make the movies she loves. “I’m starting to do independent films, my first year (film career, 2005) was “Dark Shadow”, which cost $600 million (about 10 million pesos) to produce, and that’s what I like because it’s about struggle with artists who dan riesgos. For me, female characters always bring the truth, whether the public likes them or not, and they shouldn’t be like that, we are human and, like humans, we shouldn’t enjoy them all the time “

Together with Franco, he repeated the formula that over the past few years apply actresses to everyone who has: thinks about the perfume on which the oil can, buys it and applies it throughout the preparation process and in the set. For Memory I used aceite essence.

“In every film I have to change the energy, that’s what I create, so I give her perfume and it helps her. Here I don’t think she uses them because she’s not a seductress in that sense, but she has a scent on the ground,” she counters.

“Michel has the freedom to create, he’s a good writer, and from the very beginning the character has a very similar comparison and there is no reason why there are changes from that point on.”

The Angel of Death and The Secret of Marriage actress also comments that before collaborating with Franco, she recently visited Mexico because her boyfriend lived there. He now hopes to continue his further collaboration with the Mexican director. She previously doubled for Guillermo del Toro in La cumbre escarlata and was photographed by Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki in El arbol de la vida.

“What I know is that Mexican filmmakers share a zest for life. and curiosity, because although they are very different, there is a kind of happiness on the set, and they create a new language in cinema,” he noted a few minutes earlier at the press conference.

‘Memento’ will launch in the EU as it seeks a place in the Oscar race; he says it will be a great story when he sees it.

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Jessica, who is currently in the Michoacán capital with her production partner Sarsgaard and director Franco, notes that acting talent in the United States is starting to emerge where studios are walking away from the negotiating table.

“Actors are not the only ones who are loved at this moment”“There are a lot of people who are losing their health, and 87% of Union residents (histrions) do not have access to health,” Chastain said.

“AI (artificial intelligence) requires more protection, we must change the way gifts are distributed, the color has been the widest it has ever been and we do not want to hold it until we get a fair contract,” he noted in his statement. .

In addition to Memento and Preparing a Dream, Chastain lists two films, The Division and Maternal Instinct, as well as the TV series The Scientist. Franco is also concentrating on directing Sombra del Catir, which will be directed by Jorge Hernandez Aldana and star Francisco Denis, Giovanni Garcia and Tatiana Mabo.

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