‘Cage’: Why does an actress like Elena Anaya work so much with new directors like Ignacio Tatay?

It can’t be easy to take Woody Allen’s place. That was the last director Elena Anaya worked with two years ago at the “Rifkin Festival”. And before him? With Patty Jenkins in ‘Wonder Woman’, opposite Gal Gadot. After these high flights, Goya’s winner returns to her homeland and her usual dynamic of working with the new directors: “I worked with many new very talented directors and I knew that Ignacio was one of them for his rigor, for his way of understanding cinema and for his need to tell it in detail and moment by moment”. This is how his career began, with Fernando León de Aranoa (“Family”) and less long ago with Beatriz Sanchis (“Todos está muertos”) in 2014. Now he premieres the debut film by debutant Ignacio Tatay , “Jaula”, in cinemas from Friday 9 September.

How does such an accomplished actress end up with such a disciplined newcomer? Elena Anaya saw this possible from the moment they met: “I was sure I was facing a great director. No matter what professional experience you have, I think it’s called talent, discipline and rigor.”. Tatay was not so sure of himself as, for him, he was the interpreter of “The Skin I Live In”. “The option of my dreams. I still have goosebumps remembering when they told me. I was in the car in a tense moment in the film.”. Y with a single call, “I met Álex de la Iglesia and the next day I went to have breakfast with Elena”.

This director and screenwriter of numerous short films is not the only one behind the film’s enigmatic script. Acclaimed Isabel Peña briefly parks her usual tandem with Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“May God Forgive Us”, “Anti-Riot”) to write to a woman who truly wishes to become a mother, Paula. But he is not one more. “She’s a female character that interests me a lot because she makes mistakes, but throughout the film you are on her side, and that’s something that has usually been given to male characters. I don’t know if it’s because Isabel is a woman or not. “. The interpreter who puts her body, Anaya, has not yet had it “The pleasure of getting to know Isabel Peña again, and I can’t wait to hug her and thank you for writing this character and this script”.

Elena is back to stay

Although an actress in her class is so open to working with all kinds of directors, the truth is that her career “It is based on saying no, despite the many projects to which I have said yes”. In recent years, this first case has been more frequent. After the interview, she confessed to us that it was also due to her two pregnancies: when she premiered ‘Wonder Woman’ (she went to the premiere already in an advanced stage) as well as during the filming of ‘Cage’ (in some in the filming already had a nice belly). But calm down with new and experienced directors, in film and streaming, Elena Anaya will continue to work. Far from becoming a scream queen, the following is a series of El Deseo, “Mentiras Pasajeras”, and the film by real action rookie Juan Galiñanes, “Fatum”. Until then, he was back on the bill with the horror thriller “Cage”.