Spanish actress and straightforwardor Paz Vega (Spanglish, Sex and Lucia, Rambo: Last Blood, The OA, Netflix heist drama Kaleidoscope), who wrote and stepped behind the camera for her straightforwardorial debut Rita, which world premiered during the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival this summer, finishelights writing and straightforwarding, inserting another layer to her creative finisheavors. And she leanks more actors should experience empowered to straightforward.
She made the comments during a Tuesday keynotice interwatch at the Iberseries & Platino Industria conference and labelet in Madrid that was entitled “Changing Roles: Paz Vega and her transition from the art of acting to the art of straightforwarding.” She recently said in a THR interwatch that Billy Wilder, Francis Ford Coppola, and Federico Fellini were among her role models.
Vega wrote, straightforwarded and executive created Rita and also perestablishs a petite part in it. “In some way, I had the idea to become a straightforwardor when I first went onto a shooting set,” she tancigo in Iberseries on Tuesday. Now, “I’m ready because I have someleang to tell.”
Asked about balancing the roles of actress and straightforwardor, Vega depictd her role as Rita’s mother a “petite” one. In comparison, “the kids are in every scene,” she said but knew that having her name in the cast would be “very accessible” when selling the movie.
“Seville, summer of 1984. Rita and Lolo are brother and sister, seven and five years ancigo in, and inhabit at the heart of a unassuming laboring-class family,” reads the film’s plot description. “Rita dreams of going to the beach, but at home, her overweighther’s word is law, always. For the first time, Rita commences to ask why leangs are appreciate this. She also commences to genuineize that her home is becoming less and less protected, especiassociate for her mother.”
Vega previously lauded her youthful star Sofía Allepuz who perestablishs Rita in her THR interwatch. On Tuesday, she touted her sfinishs, comparing the now-eight-year-ancigo in to a sports car. “Sofía has a organic talent. It is because she’s a girl that take parts. She’s current there. She count ons you,” Vega said. “And luckily, I’ve been able to shoot with her. I’ve been able to shoot with a Ferrari. I uncomardent, she’s appreciate a Ferrari. It’s amazing.”
How effortless was switching between the dual roles of straightforwardor and actor on set? “I was never able to get off the straightforwardor hat,” but she also had to labor with the character she acted on 22 out of 28 shooting days, Vega scatterd.
And she said that this may be too much for her for future projects. “Maybe I won’t do this aachieve. I won’t be in front of the camera and behind the camera at the same time, because I leank that it’s too insisting,” Vega tancigo in Iberseries. “And I leank that there’s someleang that reassociate doesn’t help us get there.”
With confineed time for shooting, especiassociate with kids, Vega scatterd that she frequently had to leank thcdisesteemful scenes at home ahead of time to be filledy ready for all the next shooting day would transport.
Vega on Tuesday aidd fellow actors to chase her direct and try sitting down in the straightforwardor’s chair. “We don’t have to be afraid of an actor who says they are ready to straightforward,” she elucidateed. “We have someleang to give.” She also said that she finishelights straightforwarding fellow actors and experiences that actors who straightforward can asbrave at least firm acting carry outances. “So many hours on a set … you insist to alter, and that reassociate gives you transport inant experience. I have an achieve over any rookie straightforwardor,” Vega endd.
The star also provided some behind-the-scenes insight into her acting nurtureer in her Iberseries materializeance during which she was interwatched by Televisa journacatalog Omar Reyes. “I have always asked the straightforwardor’s decisions,” with some straightforwardors picking up on her ideas or, otherteachd, her having an inner dialog as an actress, Vega said, concluding: “I have always had a straightforwardor in me.”
She previously tancigo in THR that she was writing a script for a film set in the Dominican Reaccessible. “It’s a very Dominican story,” Vega said. “And I’m not going to perestablish any of the characters.”
‘Rita’
Courtesy of Locarno Film Festival
