(Extension of the interview for The Nation, published on April 26, 2010.)
"I AM A KIND OF LUCK"
villain in Pan's Labyrinth, Sergi López became a devoted father in Ricky and a lover without limits Split
By Pablo Gorlero
"I AM A KIND OF LUCK"
villain in Pan's Labyrinth, Sergi López became a devoted father in Ricky and a lover without limits Split
By Pablo Gorlero
There, dead heat, then than a dozen interviews, one of the most comfortable chairs Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Sergi Lopez did not lose the humor and smile. It's a nice guy. "I be tired if I'm lucky? I'm here because I keep making movies," he says with absolute sincerity and conviction. Account
that film came to life almost by accident, but he loves the theater, you know very well that, not being the prototype of the gallant, continued to call it sensual characters, and a blast that embody the evils of history.
Already at this stage is well known in these latitudes. But a resume that includes titles such as Harry, a friend who loves you well, Business risky Pan's Labyrinth, a particular relationship, the open pit mine and Only , among some thirty titles, led him to become a major figure in international cinema, equally adored in France and Spain. Indeed, Sergi arrived in Buenos Aires last month to present a week of French cinema. Two titles from this source will be released this year and have over: Ricky , François Ozon, and Split , by Catherine Corsini.
In the first, shares the bill with Alexandra Lamy and an awesome baby: Melusine Mayance. "I had not seen the movies François Ozon, but I knew him. There is a hearty, simple and shirts, but a little sophisticated, a dandy. A few movies very careful and always takes you red herrings, "Sergi progresses. And some of that has to be to Ozon ventures to make a film whose protagonist is a boy with wings, fruit of a love affair between two workers.'s Tobi far, this iconic 1978 English film, in which a winged boy was identified by the company. "There is a common film. A factory, a single parent, this guy then appears, a baby, child abuse and then ... How have wings? From the outset, when I read it I thought it was a huge jerk, a boludez championship. I realized it was a risk. The famous phrase of the boy with wings is a trap. It may seem like a business convention, but it is a big risk. Although I realized that the story would be the same if, instead of wings, the child has an allergy, "says the actor." Ozon can not help but tell stories to leave you perplexed, not knowing what site you go. Everything is mysterious and disturbing. Do not know where you are going to leave and that he loves. In France, the tactic did not say anything about what it was. But in Spain, I did everything backwards. I told them all about the boy with wings. Because ultimately, this story is all the world as out of place. "
Two Ricky images of Francois Ozon
- How feel it to be pulled by two countries?
-It's surreal. The good life is a privilege. Just missing that I'm complaining, hell! is proportional to how well it goes with the unexpected. I'm from Vilanova i la Geltrú south of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bnear Sitges. I went to Paris to study at the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre et Mouvement, by Jacques Lecoq. There worked with a guy who was at that school. He was 25 years, now I have 44. It was in 90. It was not so young, ie not started at 16. There, by chance, I stuck a note in the secretariat said, "Wanted actor with a English accent to the first feature film." Host! I spoke French and was fatal curiosity. So I started. As the director did not have all the money to do decided to shoot the first ten minutes to go to find the funds that were missing with that material. The guy I took it, were filming a week and a weekend and the following year, when I started school again, he calls me and says, "Yes." "Yes what?" He asked. "I've found the money and we are going to Normandy two months shooting." I told him I could not. I said I was crazy. If there was, for he was a bitch. Anyway, I explained: "I have not come here to do cinema. This is a private school, I pay, I find it a paste that you shit ... And school is great, is very good creation. " But I said: "This is cinema." I really could not leave the school two months, because there are workshops. It's a race, with many subjects, going to clown clowns, to the tragedy, the Commedia dell'Arte ... If you gotta go two months you have to leave. At the end we agreed. We shot two weekends. Then you realize that the film I found by accident. I have friends of young men have gone to London, America or France, because they wanted to make movies. But for me it was by chance. My relationship with France is shit, do not quite understand because I have a Catalan accent and speak French with thick accent. When I finished that film, I suggested that I stay to do "my film career" there. If I was going to do theater! I proposed roles of English immigrants, but always in immigrant-immigrant. I did not know where he was going to stop that. In addition, Paris is a city face. And that idea of \u200b\u200ban actor, of being at home waiting for my call, I will. Because if you're an actor and not call you to act, will you doubt yourself. On the other hand, can do things themselves gives a brutal force. Therefore, the theater has saved my life and also Lecoq school. They learn to work on the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating and using improvisation to develop themes. You can suggest things and write about them. We are talking about the International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq. We were almost all foreigners, also had some Argentines. 50 types in my class, only two were French. Well, reaalmente could not leave the school two months, because they are not courses, but subjects. Clown going to jesters, the tragedy of the Commedia dell'Arte ... If you gotta go two months leave. Well, then we agreed with the director and filmed over two weekends.
-It's surreal. The good life is a privilege. Just missing that I'm complaining, hell! is proportional to how well it goes with the unexpected. I'm from Vilanova i la Geltrú south of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bnear Sitges. I went to Paris to study at the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre et Mouvement, by Jacques Lecoq. There worked with a guy who was at that school. He was 25 years, now I have 44. It was in 90. It was not so young, ie not started at 16. There, by chance, I stuck a note in the secretariat said, "Wanted actor with a English accent to the first feature film." Host! I spoke French and was fatal curiosity. So I started. As the director did not have all the money to do decided to shoot the first ten minutes to go to find the funds that were missing with that material. The guy I took it, were filming a week and a weekend and the following year, when I started school again, he calls me and says, "Yes." "Yes what?" He asked. "I've found the money and we are going to Normandy two months shooting." I told him I could not. I said I was crazy. If there was, for he was a bitch. Anyway, I explained: "I have not come here to do cinema. This is a private school, I pay, I find it a paste that you shit ... And school is great, is very good creation. " But I said: "This is cinema." I really could not leave the school two months, because there are workshops. It's a race, with many subjects, going to clown clowns, to the tragedy, the Commedia dell'Arte ... If you gotta go two months you have to leave. At the end we agreed. We shot two weekends. Then you realize that the film I found by accident. I have friends of young men have gone to London, America or France, because they wanted to make movies. But for me it was by chance. My relationship with France is shit, do not quite understand because I have a Catalan accent and speak French with thick accent. When I finished that film, I suggested that I stay to do "my film career" there. If I was going to do theater! I proposed roles of English immigrants, but always in immigrant-immigrant. I did not know where he was going to stop that. In addition, Paris is a city face. And that idea of \u200b\u200ban actor, of being at home waiting for my call, I will. Because if you're an actor and not call you to act, will you doubt yourself. On the other hand, can do things themselves gives a brutal force. Therefore, the theater has saved my life and also Lecoq school. They learn to work on the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating and using improvisation to develop themes. You can suggest things and write about them. We are talking about the International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq. We were almost all foreigners, also had some Argentines. 50 types in my class, only two were French. Well, reaalmente could not leave the school two months, because they are not courses, but subjects. Clown going to jesters, the tragedy of the Commedia dell'Arte ... If you gotta go two months leave. Well, then we agreed with the director and filmed over two weekends.
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- Does this model learned in the school of Lecoq took for your sole proprietorship Non solum ?
"Yes, I'm still doing. All I do is create personal theater. The rest comes from me luck. Premiered this work five years ago in Catalan. After a year, presented in French, and for three months in Castilian. Soon we will go to Madrid. Before doing theater with another friend, a clown show, not a red nose, but two hours of clown ... I had to leave the theater because you get a date now and is well. In contrast, in film, the plan is to roll in September October and then ends up being from November to December. It's a joke. Move dates. Then it was complicated. Because when no one knew me, as we were two, rather than I go to the play we found a replacement for both. And when I do not know anyone there was no problem, but when I started to learn a little and my place was one Luis Guerrero, who did not know anyone ... Even my partner was more famous than me: Tony Alba. Well, I left and I spent three years doing theater and was on a motorbike ... When I saw my friends on stage made me want to get to act, write, improvise.
Non solum
"Yes, I'm still doing. All I do is create personal theater. The rest comes from me luck. Premiered this work five years ago in Catalan. After a year, presented in French, and for three months in Castilian. Soon we will go to Madrid. Before doing theater with another friend, a clown show, not a red nose, but two hours of clown ... I had to leave the theater because you get a date now and is well. In contrast, in film, the plan is to roll in September October and then ends up being from November to December. It's a joke. Move dates. Then it was complicated. Because when no one knew me, as we were two, rather than I go to the play we found a replacement for both. And when I do not know anyone there was no problem, but when I started to learn a little and my place was one Luis Guerrero, who did not know anyone ... Even my partner was more famous than me: Tony Alba. Well, I left and I spent three years doing theater and was on a motorbike ... When I saw my friends on stage made me want to get to act, write, improvise.
Non solum - Are you preparing another show?
"We're talking a lot with Jorge Picó, another guy who was with me at school. We have been making friends and his wife works with me. Jorge're talking about many things, we want to write another book and songs, a movie, book, and so on.
- You choose a lot of work?
"Yes. So do not complain much. What happens to me is an exaggeration and even I'm ashamed. Send me things to read in France, Spain, England, United States, physically, I can not do everything. Then I have to choose for balls. I try to do only things that I like. And if anything I like, I do not do anything. I supercontento.
- What should a project to accept it?
I do not know ... I have little film culture, then I can not be guided by names. I've worked many times with unknown directors and found to be "number one". And movies I neither have I imagined, and characters that had not happened and I have come to be brutal. So try not to have any preconceived idea of \u200b\u200bwhat I hope. It's funny because this privilege I have of them to send me things sometimes do not serve anything. Just to tell you it would be cool to do a comedy to a comedy that sends you do not like. Or do you feel like a gangster, but after you read it and do not like.
- Where do you stick the choice of history? Why or how it's written from the perspective of the actor to portray this or that character?
"No, I do not get it. Sometimes I happened to read a script that my character is fine. Luxuriant, swimming with crocodiles, light character, extravagant, but then the movie ... Oh ... And I will show off with an interesting character in a story that is not? open The comedy was a very good Elvira Lindo, very funny and witty ... but my character was boring, a psychiatrist who had separated and that he was a spectacular woman, garrula. I told the director, how boring this character was a good guy, he did nothing ... but nevertheless, the film needed this guy next to this chick. I need to believe, tell me something about the story is good and has something interesting. If not, I feel good. I do not like me a catalog of characters different.
"We're talking a lot with Jorge Picó, another guy who was with me at school. We have been making friends and his wife works with me. Jorge're talking about many things, we want to write another book and songs, a movie, book, and so on.
- You choose a lot of work?
"Yes. So do not complain much. What happens to me is an exaggeration and even I'm ashamed. Send me things to read in France, Spain, England, United States, physically, I can not do everything. Then I have to choose for balls. I try to do only things that I like. And if anything I like, I do not do anything. I supercontento.
- What should a project to accept it?
I do not know ... I have little film culture, then I can not be guided by names. I've worked many times with unknown directors and found to be "number one". And movies I neither have I imagined, and characters that had not happened and I have come to be brutal. So try not to have any preconceived idea of \u200b\u200bwhat I hope. It's funny because this privilege I have of them to send me things sometimes do not serve anything. Just to tell you it would be cool to do a comedy to a comedy that sends you do not like. Or do you feel like a gangster, but after you read it and do not like.
- Where do you stick the choice of history? Why or how it's written from the perspective of the actor to portray this or that character?
"No, I do not get it. Sometimes I happened to read a script that my character is fine. Luxuriant, swimming with crocodiles, light character, extravagant, but then the movie ... Oh ... And I will show off with an interesting character in a story that is not? open The comedy was a very good Elvira Lindo, very funny and witty ... but my character was boring, a psychiatrist who had separated and that he was a spectacular woman, garrula. I told the director, how boring this character was a good guy, he did nothing ... but nevertheless, the film needed this guy next to this chick. I need to believe, tell me something about the story is good and has something interesting. If not, I feel good. I do not like me a catalog of characters different.
Vidal, the villain in "Pan's Labyrinth
- What did you like the latter two ( Ricky and Split )?
"Both have something that is explaining what I live. I have the pleasure of working with these exponents of auteur cinema: people who tell stories that only they could tell that. That is, there is no industrial mindset to build a product to reach a particular audience segment. Are authors. With Split director (Catherine Corsini) had already worked before. It is an aunt who always has a political or feminist involvement. It has always been very militant, left. Here assembled a classic structure: a husband, a woman and her lover. It's funny but it's like you have some history you've seen. They upper class and my character, a laborer. The story of an aunt who is crazy in love with this guy, but because it makes you realize the extent to which is "sequestered" in their marriage. In other words, can not buy a bottle of water, dependent on her husband, this thing feels a little classical animal lover. My character is this and help my Catalan accent and I'm hairy. But this character also has something female. I do not mean in a pejorative way. It is a model of man that does not solve, but follows, gives kisses, listening, and what you propose is idyllic. You see it go to a place where it seems they are not going to end well ... It's like a race without end or tragic ending. But nevertheless, her aunt and uncle moves the brake, still following her.
Split
-This film is a very important connection between you and actress, Kristin Scott Thomas ...
- (Laughs) They are those things accomplished film.
- You find out who will be your partner when you summon?
-No. It's a lottery. Between us, we did not understand Christine was therefore not a deep, intuitive, we had no chemistry. But I understand what you say because when I saw the movie said, Host! I told the director: "I am amazed, it seems we were in love." Even she is pretty and can not get enough of her. When Corsini gave us the movie we were sure we had something that was not written. What was written, in essence, was quite conventional. I understand that this will make sense if the three found something that is not written. At first, the script was very sexual. There was something sensual in her eyes, how we touch. And we knew that if you do not believe that the movie will be crap. It is brutal what is the movies. You can tell the story the same way and play moments of beauty. At one point the script says: "She is alone in the field, among trees, walks and gets a bee in her dress. And I laugh and laugh alone. " Read it and say, "Host ... what is this?". And that scene is amazing. Until I see beauty. Those things are impossible to predict.
- (Laughs) They are those things accomplished film.
- You find out who will be your partner when you summon?
-No. It's a lottery. Between us, we did not understand Christine was therefore not a deep, intuitive, we had no chemistry. But I understand what you say because when I saw the movie said, Host! I told the director: "I am amazed, it seems we were in love." Even she is pretty and can not get enough of her. When Corsini gave us the movie we were sure we had something that was not written. What was written, in essence, was quite conventional. I understand that this will make sense if the three found something that is not written. At first, the script was very sexual. There was something sensual in her eyes, how we touch. And we knew that if you do not believe that the movie will be crap. It is brutal what is the movies. You can tell the story the same way and play moments of beauty. At one point the script says: "She is alone in the field, among trees, walks and gets a bee in her dress. And I laugh and laugh alone. " Read it and say, "Host ... what is this?". And that scene is amazing. Until I see beauty. Those things are impossible to predict.
- How do you define Ricky ? Like a fantasy film?
I do not know ... If I had a defect would say that the wing is a red herring. Pan's Labyrinth is unanimous, has a story line as a steamroller. Guillermo del Toro does not give you host. I do not like movies of monsters and is fine. How is a guy happens to the English Civil War as a monster with wings.
- That was your great paper?
"Well ... this is a role that people, at least in Spain, and I think here in Argentina too, is very strong, well founded on value. The film has this too, you well ... you get nothing there, and behind, you have a battalion of guys who manage things without you doing anything. Vidal is a character who could be a bit Manichean, because it is wrong with him, with others, with its past, its future, with everything ... but yet has a lot of detail. It is very wild. As a wicked movie, the ogre of a fairy tale.
I do not know ... If I had a defect would say that the wing is a red herring. Pan's Labyrinth is unanimous, has a story line as a steamroller. Guillermo del Toro does not give you host. I do not like movies of monsters and is fine. How is a guy happens to the English Civil War as a monster with wings.
- That was your great paper?
"Well ... this is a role that people, at least in Spain, and I think here in Argentina too, is very strong, well founded on value. The film has this too, you well ... you get nothing there, and behind, you have a battalion of guys who manage things without you doing anything. Vidal is a character who could be a bit Manichean, because it is wrong with him, with others, with its past, its future, with everything ... but yet has a lot of detail. It is very wild. As a wicked movie, the ogre of a fairy tale.
Pan's Labyrinth
- Are you enjoying these characters? You have a lot of villains.
"Yes, it's more fun to do bad than good. I imagine that if a child say, "Let's play Red Riding Hood, what character you want to do?" ... Surely tell you: The wolf. Make a wrong is more free, have less moral barriers and things you further away from you. Got away with that act. Lecoq said that the hardest part of acting is the closest. Animals are more complicated to represent monkeys. Wrong is confused, you do not know just when you start the monkey. The evil, the monster child has something more, something fun, something fun.
"Yes, it's more fun to do bad than good. I imagine that if a child say, "Let's play Red Riding Hood, what character you want to do?" ... Surely tell you: The wolf. Make a wrong is more free, have less moral barriers and things you further away from you. Got away with that act. Lecoq said that the hardest part of acting is the closest. Animals are more complicated to represent monkeys. Wrong is confused, you do not know just when you start the monkey. The evil, the monster child has something more, something fun, something fun.
Harry, a friend who loves you well (left) and Love Affair (right)
-Sin as the epitome of leading man, also represents a desirable man prototype. Are you a new Marlon Brando?
-Ja ... Have you seen how good? But in comparison I can lose. I realize that the seduction ... Well, it's one thing that film has much to do. A wider cult of the individual. I'm also going to see actors or actresses and say, host, that guy, what Aunt ... And well ... with aunts always went well, but I've never gone down the street and have turned around and said, "what sensuality, what else!" ... But this movie I meet people who tell me great things ... Well because they have seen movies and films have this magical thing, inexplicable. A relationship pornographic ( Love Affair ) starts there with an aunt waiting in a bar and telling: "The first time I saw him, I did not handsome, had an attractive ...." And we see a slow down image of my post. I watch and smile. And the camera did wonders! In her text she says: "When he smiled, his whole face smiled "... That you do in a movie and is accomplished, you think you are witness to this moment. People think we're in love and not true. That plays in favor. I know that in many movies just doing things that are sensual or sexual ... That sounds fucking great, positive thing that they like their aunts. But it's beyond me. It is the most important of my career, but I take it as very positive. Perhaps the movies that I inspire other directors. I'll tell you something about the sensuality that you can see me in a movie. The other day, in Italy, Split present a tiny theater, with 50 journalists. Original version with subtitles, is finished film. Women and men commenting. Suddenly, a journalist shot: "Mrs. Corsini, can you explain how to make a film about love and sex, choose this man who has no sex appeal?" (Laughter). Well, it is clear that the aunt did not like it at all and did not understand how I could catch me. I do not take reason, I am the first surprised. Like everyone in life, I have met girls who have told me that was the most handsome boy in the world or the most normal, I preferred some other thin and fat better. Fortunately, for the likes anything goes.
-Ja ... Have you seen how good? But in comparison I can lose. I realize that the seduction ... Well, it's one thing that film has much to do. A wider cult of the individual. I'm also going to see actors or actresses and say, host, that guy, what Aunt ... And well ... with aunts always went well, but I've never gone down the street and have turned around and said, "what sensuality, what else!" ... But this movie I meet people who tell me great things ... Well because they have seen movies and films have this magical thing, inexplicable. A relationship pornographic ( Love Affair ) starts there with an aunt waiting in a bar and telling: "The first time I saw him, I did not handsome, had an attractive ...." And we see a slow down image of my post. I watch and smile. And the camera did wonders! In her text she says: "When he smiled, his whole face smiled "... That you do in a movie and is accomplished, you think you are witness to this moment. People think we're in love and not true. That plays in favor. I know that in many movies just doing things that are sensual or sexual ... That sounds fucking great, positive thing that they like their aunts. But it's beyond me. It is the most important of my career, but I take it as very positive. Perhaps the movies that I inspire other directors. I'll tell you something about the sensuality that you can see me in a movie. The other day, in Italy, Split present a tiny theater, with 50 journalists. Original version with subtitles, is finished film. Women and men commenting. Suddenly, a journalist shot: "Mrs. Corsini, can you explain how to make a film about love and sex, choose this man who has no sex appeal?" (Laughter). Well, it is clear that the aunt did not like it at all and did not understand how I could catch me. I do not take reason, I am the first surprised. Like everyone in life, I have met girls who have told me that was the most handsome boy in the world or the most normal, I preferred some other thin and fat better. Fortunately, for the likes anything goes.
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