It’s very hot in Madrid (very), but Antonio de la Torre has been on promotion all week and desperately needs to sit on a terrace and have a cool drink. It comes from talking about politics because he says that’s what interests him most in the world, “politics is everything”period. So when you feel loose a “How do you see it?”, and gets involved in the conversation trying to figure out the headlines. Since it fails, we continue.
Antonio de la Torre will debut on July 14 ‘Between life and death’, a detective thriller in French. He is Leo Castaneda, a Spaniard living in Brussels who drives the city’s metro. One morning he witnesses the suicide of a young man who throws himself on the tracks. From there, a police investigation begins which puts him in the spotlight. “The director came to visit me in San Sebastian while I was shooting ‘The Invisible Line’. At first the French thing scared me … but Giordano (the director) knew Spanish, so it was very simple.”. “Also”she says, (and gets a little sentimental without realizing it) “It’s like falling in love, you know how it begins, but not how it ends.”
Anyway, admits the thriller rejected him … “Joe, another thriller … the good thing for me is not being in anything, not being pigeonholed”. But then De la Torre claims to have always admired French cinema and it was foolish to say no, “Also, the film was very much in my favor … a thriller, a Spaniard … I had no intention of starting in France doing comedies. There was also a moment when I started changing some dialogues that were in Spanish because I preferred to do them in French “.
While waving with your hands and covering your face from the sun, repeat several times “But do you understand me? I think it’s like when you go on Erasmus and understand Chinese that speaks English better than English”. Then she admits she didn’t “no idea of French”at school he was captured by English. “I spent two months with a coach learning the dialogues until I told her I needed more, this alone limited me a lot. When I work in Spanish, I sometimes improvise things during filming because I need it. to be organic “. So much so that she did the interviews for the promotion in France, in French. “That is to say…”.
‘Between Life and Death’ talks about the usual issues which are, at the same time, the issues we never talk about: our recent history. “It’s nice to tell the story so it doesn’t happen again”, sentence. He says it’s the issues that interest him, those of civil war, transition, ETA, the most complicated issues are the most important. More than anything else, why “One of the things I wanted to do first as a journalist, and then as an actor, is to understand how human beings work.”
Antonio de la Torre is in one of his best moments. He doesn’t say it, but he shows it. He has the desire for a beginner and the peace of mind of the experience. Suddenly he says very serious “I’m going to give you some advice you didn’t ask me … don’t obsess about things. You don’t know what’s going to happen, for better or for worse. I learned it a little late, at 50. But it’s the advantage of this. age … physically you are still fine and on top of that you can live without the anxiety of being 20 years old “. So the next question is a must “What remains to be done?”. “All”he says very quickly, “so many things that I will die without trying them. This is what I have learned … that there are things that I will not experience and nothing happens. Before, I was staying home for a weekend thinking about how I was missing and I would be anxious Years and years, but no more “.. “Between Life and Death” will be released in theaters on July 14th.
Source: E Cartelera
