Well, congratulations to you
both on the film and on your performances.
Now Íker .
This is your first ever film role.
All right. Yeah, it is.
So how did you feel when you were told that you got the part?
Did you think somebody was playing a joke on you?
I actually I never thought it was a joke.
I mean, I.
I was it's curious because I was with all my group friends.
We're like eight guys in my room just like, talking.
And then my mom shows up in the room with the phone and it had an in her ear,
and she was like, really? We're super grateful.
Thank you very much.
And I just looked at her in this like crazy looking face.
And all my friends were hyping with me it all.
We all started to scream.
It was like it was like a movie scene to when I got the the news.
It's great.
And Ximena, you
Play his his sister.
But of course, it's not your first film.
Well, yeah, it is. Like it's really.
I know you be in other thing in the other interviews.
Oh they were like, it's your first time. Like my first feature too.
Yeah.
I mean, so yes, I did a show, I did a TV show three seasons long.
So I've had experience and before that I've done a lot of short films,
but first feature ever.
But I know what it's like on a set
I know what it's like
So how protective did you feel towards that?
Because I was very, very protective, I think, since we met.
I had this brother, we had this brother and sister bond immediately.
He's a little brother to me.
And I was like,
This is perfect, and I'm going to use this because it's, you know, I always played.
But yeah, and I definitely felt protective because you can get lost on set.
You can get lost in this industry.
You know, I think that we
a lot of a lot of us now, you know, this generation,
we have our heads on our shoulders and it's great.
But I think definitely felt that he had to just relax and take it easy
and take it day by day and not be, you know, super overwhelmed.
And I think that we both, you know, he also took care of me there was
there were moments and I would break down and he he was there for me, too.
So that's, you know, so. Yeah.
How helpful was she, really?
She was really helpful. Sure.
She would be like, oh, you don't let them do this to you, man, or
or do this or see this or don't say no.
You can say it like, you know,
you don't have all the power and you can say whatever you want.
Like, okay.
Or she was like, trying to tell me all the time to communicate what I felt
or what I not like, try to respect with, but always have your opinion at first.
So you've got Daniel Giménez Cacho & Griselda Siciliani playing your parents
who are very experienced actors, both also.
What were they like to work with?
What did you learn from them?
Actually, Daniel is a
Spanish maestro.
He's like the master of this art.
And and he's probably the biggest example
for me of what you can do best in the career.
And Griselda is like one of the most talented
and funny, and she was so free.
Yes. Yes.
She's such a free soul.
And you can see that from far.
And they're amazing people.
And they were always trying to take care of me and him.And
at the same time, we became a family right from the beginning,
and I think that was really special and it changed the entire dynamic
and sort of atmosphere while we were filming it there.
There's so much trust always.
Yeah, we were super comfortable around them all the time,
so it was quite easy to actually portray a family.
Very little the family.
It was total natural.
There's a scene I think, that everybody remembers in the film Ximena
This is when Daniel is dancing
and you get involved in that as well.
How much
practice did you have to put in before that scene was insane.
That scene we that's probably the hardest scene in the movie. Yes.
It took so long.
It was in a place the AC did not work in that place.
And I think also when you film
a lot of the time, there's no A.C., because it makes noise, so it interferes.
So it was just like hot and
everybody would have a cigaret light it on.
So it's like this big smoke cloud of cigaret all the time.
Yeah. Because you that, that affects
the pace was falling out because it's from the sixties.
Yeah.
So it was just like really old place, but it was really, it was.
So with Alejandro G Iñárritu, there's a lot of trust of like,
if it's not good, he will keep going until it's perfect.
And that film,
even though sorry that scene, it's edited, there's a couple of cuts in that scene.
It was we shot it always as one take.
And for example, the clap.
When I have to clap, I had to clap when the song was playing live
and it was changing and it was so complicated.
And just if one person messed up, one dancer, one moment when you're clapping,
we had to just do the clap was just it was crazy.
And so we definitely we would go back, rehearse on weekends because he wasn't
liking it.
He's like, We'll be here another month
if we have to have Lucky that week that came, we finally got it right.
And when he starts dancing in like slow motion, we have to do.
We have to do in double time.
We have to dance. Yeah.
So it looks like we were at a wedding.
They had to put makeup like great skin in our face.
It was work out.
What did you think of Daniel's dancing?
Well, maybe creative...
We were in this country called Dad dancing.
Yeah. And was that it?
No, actually, Dad dancing is much worse.
Yeah, it's.
It's older men dancing very badly.
Yeah, he's really.
He's really good.
Like, very versatile. Yeah. Like versatile.
Versatile. Like, when he does that kind of things.
Like, you tell him to do something in a creative way and he'll find a way.
He's really talented.
I love when he jumps and he's reaching and
someone said something amazingly like, really beautiful the other day.
That was it's when we go out in our lives, we have our own soundtrack sometimes
and sort of getting to see Daniel's soundtrack or Silverio Gama's soundtrack
for that moment in his life is really I don't know, it's really powerful.
It's really cool.
Thank you both very much.
Been lovely to talk to you. Thank you. Thanks to you.