Congratulations to you both.
Thank you.
on the film and your performances.
It's a film based very much on Alejandro G. Iñárritu
experiences and his memories, so that makes it very personal for him.
How did you react when you read the script?
Because it's not every day that an Oscar
winning director comes calling, is it?
Yeah. Yeah.
I read the script once
alone and my reaction was really one of great emotion, of excitement,
this of I just wanted to be on the set filming the scenes.
I wanted to be in the situations and in that environment.
And my character has a duality.
On the one hand, she is quite luminous.
She illuminates other people, she's very playful,
but on the other hand, she has a great deal of hurt as well.
And so I had a great deal of expectations when it came to playing her.
And in fact, when I got to the set, I felt that my expectations were exceeded
when it came to actually being in the reality of doing it.
And Daniel, how did you react?
Me Well, I knew when I read it and of course
talking with him that it was a personal
material of his life in this movie.
Not an autobiographical but very
many, many things of his life he wanted to talk about.
But for me, it was
never a matter of playing him.
It was more a matter of playing myself because I think I am in this movie
because he talked to me, he didn't do a proper casting
to see how I was acting because he knew me also.
But we were more talking about our lives and where were we
in that moment in our life.
And there he he found a lot of coincidences.
No. So I was not worried of being himself
or trying to copy his way of acting or moving or speaking.
And it became much more a personal thing for me.
And this is the way that everything happened.
It became
a very
personal shooting and many personal things of my life
came out and happened that I will remember all the time.
But when you look at the poster, you could actually think that was Alejandro.
Yeah, I think he tried.
He tried to disguise me as him.
Well there her because look, this is this is the real.
This is the real me.
So he did he got me a beautiful wig
and the bird,
which I don't normally don't use, though he tried to.
And also in the other characters, not very much like they look alike,
but the spirit, the inner spirit,
our children, Griselda,
they are very familiar with his family, I think.
Yes, this is the first time you've worked together and we met.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't knew her.
Would you do it again? Oh, absolutely.
Me? I will do it.
Absolutely. Yes, of course.
After a movie like this, what could we do next?
Deeper.
Oh, well, I think I would love to explore much more what she has inside.
Let's we could do the inverse.
Now I'm the wife and she becomes the the leading character.
What would you like to do
Yeah I would love to work with him again.
I feel that Daniel and I had an instant chemistry.
There are times when chemistry develops during work, but with him it was like.
Like love at first sight.
There was this instant chemistry.
When I went to Los Angeles for the casting,
my character was one of the last to be cast.
He was already cast, of course, and we met for the first time.
It was like, Hi, hi.
And then we needed to act a whole load of different things.
And I hadn't read the script, so I didn't really know what I was
supposed to be doing.
But I, I went, I just had to go off of him and his face
and his actions and the intuition really came through.
And I immediately felt comfortable.
I felt like I was right at home right away.
And Daniel, one of the perhaps
the most memorable scene in the film is when you dance.
Mm hmm.
Uh, by yourself, with your wife.
With his daughter.
How good a dancer are you in real life? How.
How how good a dancer are you?
Well, I love to that I've been dancing, but does not mean you're good at it.
Well, how can I save him?
Yeah, I think I'm good,
actually.
I won a dancing contest when I was 24.
Mambo. A mambo contest? Yeah.
I won the first prize, so I think I'm good.
I love it. We see on screen.
Is that is that choreographed or did you just let loose?
There was a choreographer that was helping me, but it was
all my my natural way. And
of course,
even that situation is very familiar
for me, that place I've been dancing
that many times in that ballroom,
I was in many parties
very similar like that one.
Very, very similar, actually.
This is a recreation because now this ballroom is almost closed.
So I remember like being there
30 years ago with the with all the extras and all the people around.
It was like very, very familiar.
And also this way of ignoring
everybody and then dancing just for yourself also.
That's something I used to do.
So just go.
Go, boy do your own thing.
Do your thing.
Thank you very much now. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Bye bye.