Miren Ibarguren: “It’s great to see a film like ‘The Bride of America’ where different cultures converge”

A wedding is coming! ‘America’s Bride’ hits theaters on February 17th, the return to the big screen of Alfonso Albacete, eight years after ‘Solo química’. A transoceanic love in which Miren Ibarguren embodies a young woman with a heart who rediscovers passion on an unexpected trip to Mexico attend his father’s wedding with his new girlfriend. “I’m just grateful. This movie was a complete gift”says the actress.

Ana (Ibarguren) is a young Spanish woman who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend, Arturo (David Mora)., and Tono (Pol Monen), his brother, receive surprising news: their father, Pepe (Ginés García Millán) is marrying a woman he met through the Internet. Both decide to travel to Mexico to attend the wedding, but what they find there is not what they expected. Rose (Diana Bovio), their fiancée, is not only younger than them, but also younger than their large Mexican family, from a popular and noisy neighborhood, led by Lupe (Maribel Guardia), their mother, who has prepared a welcome that you will not forget in your life. Above all Ana, who will meet Horacio (Christian Vázquez), the irresistible brother of the bride, capable of making her very… very nervous. Both families will have to overcome prejudices and cultural shocks, to discover that love can be in the different.

A romantic comedy with a thug touch that comes from a real anecdote. “The germ of the film was an anecdote that happened to my family 15 years ago. My father called my sister and me to announce that he was marrying a Mexican girl 30 years younger than the one he had met on the Internet and that he would have the wedding it was supposed to take place in the bride’s country. My sister and I freaked out and went there to meet her. In Mexico, what we found was really crazy, because it’s true that Mexicans and Spaniards, even though we have a lot in common we have many cultural differences, here I saw that there was material for a film”, explains Alfonso Albacete in an interview for eCartelera in Madrid.

“That was the germ and that was what went into making a fictional story, cbut the moral is that we all have too many prejudices and if we remove them we can be more tolerant with others, understand them and love them. That was what I wanted to tell with a great comedy backdrop.”adds the director.

“Traveling and filming in Mexico was a dream”

These cultural clashes allow us to see Spanish and Mexican stars coincide on the billremembering that co-productions between Spain and Latin America are becoming more and more common, which makes you feel different accents and see different realities. “All that is diversity is enriching. It’s nice to see a film like ‘America’s Bride’, where many different things converge. It’s very nice to see and know different cities”Miren Ibarguren exhibits.

“Also hearing different accents of our own language, from what is used in Madrid to what is heard in Murcia, passing through Mexican. It’s very beautiful. I think there is a lot of talent out there and this allows us to get to know him better. We need to encourage people from both Mexico and other parts of Latin America to come and work in Spain without any problem and vice versa, that we can also work in Mexico or other places. It opens borders for us and expands our view of the world. It is our wealth, as we share the same language”adds Ginés García Millán.

Precisely, shooting in Mexico was one of the most exciting aspects of the filmespecially for Pepa Charro, who plays Aunt Regina, ex-sister-in-law of the father of the protagonist family, who experiences one of the most surreal moments in the film. “Shooting in Mexico was a dream, being able to travel and not pretend to travel was a great luxury. We were at that moment when even thinking of going to Burgos seemed impossible. So, shooting In Mexico was a dream, with the its respective parts, from REM, which was the recovery, to the end, which was when we had to come back. We were going to stay there.”says the actress.

In “America’s Love”, the public will be able to see Charro in a very different role than he has as La Terremoto de Alcorcón. “I saw myself very differently too. It was a gift of character and storyline, I had fun being dressed as a bride and being kidnapped by a disappointed butcher. It was a rush to play Regina, who is kind of the villain in the film.” With The Earthquake I have that goodness aspect, because The Earthquake is never bad. So, being able to be a little naughty, it was a hilarious game.”says the actress.

Another positive is that LGBT characters flee from cliché, as in the case of Eduardo Casanova and Pol Monen, who embody a gay couple. The ‘Who Would You Take to a Deserted Island?’ actor He plays Ana’s brother, a lawyer who hasn’t told his father that he has been married for a long time to her husband, Chema, a renowned chef and gastronomic businessman. “My character is kind of the one who accepts everyone’s differences, the age difference between my character’s father-in-law and his new wife. He’s the one who lets it flow, who accepts and, in this way, manages the other characters they learn and that being different is not a bad thing”Casanova exhibits.

Directed by Alfonso Albacete, who signs the screenplay with Charo Albacete, ‘The Bride of America’ stars Miren Ibarguren. The cast is completed by Ginés García Millán, Pol Monen, Eduardo Casanova, Pepa Charro, Christian Vázquez, Diana Bovio, Maribel Guardia, Michelle Rodríguez, Armando Espitia and David Mora. Produced by Gerardo Herrero and Iñaki Ros. A co-production between Spain and Mexico. A production by Tornasol, La novia de América AIE and Animal de Luz Films, with the collaboration of Movistar Plus+ and Vix+. Available in cinemas from this February 17, by the hand of A Contracorriente Films.