Eva Llorach: “For a first feature film, ‘Jaula’ is wonderfully well written”

How difficult it is to talk to three of the protagonists of ‘Cage’. Not that they are as happy as the two neighbors and the husband they play with. In reverse. Rather it is because, as the latter warns, “there is a bomb that explodes”. Faced with this warning from Pablo Molinero (“The summer we live in”), the fictitious marriage formed by Carlos Santos (“I leave when I want”) and Eva Llorach (“Who will sing for you”) asks more questions than answers. “Who is this girl? What’s wrong with her? Where did she come from?”. And even there you can read. This is what ‘Cage’, Ignacio Tatay’s first film and Elena Anaya’s return to cinema after 2 years is all about. While they can’t tell what’s going on as we didn’t in our review, yes they revealed to us how they built a network of relationships with as many layers as surprises.

Carlos Santos also warns that although there is darkness, it is a real terror. In the case of the main couple formed by Molinero and Anaya, this is even more successful. They both play a duel of love and suspicion after struggling to have children and suddenly having to adopt a strange girl (Eva Tennear) who doesn’t want to leave painted chalk lines on the floor. Specifically, when both actors had just become parents. “She and I were also parents at an age, it was something that moved us”. For the protagonist of the series ‘The plague’, “This is a more important issue than it seems”.

The other great couple in the film is the more secondary one formed by Carlos Santos and Eva Llorach. They also share a scene with Eloy Azorín (“High Seas”) and Esther Acebo (“La casa de papell”) to form this microcosm of three pairs of neighbors. And is that, really, there are few other actors in the film. Perhaps for this, novice Ignacio Tatay gave them, according to Llorach, “many references and help. Each neighbor has a well-defined personality and are affected by the girl’s appearance. “Although they are few, for the Povedilla actor in ‘Los hombres de Paco’, everything is very much mixed with the goal of “Unravel the mystery. There are a lot of sequences where you see how that group gets drunk, they use each other … That tangle of relationships is in the movie.”.

Three actors from films and platforms

In addition to Álex de la Iglesia’s production company Pokeepsie Films, the film also has Netflix participation. For these three actors, platforms are not something far away: Molinero is the protagonist of the great bet of Movistar + ‘La Peste’, Santos appeared in an episode of ‘Stories not to sleep’ on Prime Video and Llorach is a regular at ‘ Elite ‘. For her, “there is no difference. The series have become cinema, and the way I approach my work is practically the same “. Her husband in the narrative agrees that, if there is a production company behind it or it is a mere participation like in this case, “The work is very much the same. Here it is different, here it is Sony. ”However, he believes in it as he works “with Netflix directly there is a certain difference. I’m intrigued why they release this talk about harassment and staring “. Far from being a mystery like that of the girl with the plaster in ‘Cage’, her wife in the film already makes a spoiler: “It’s a very light speech and it goes very quickly”. What they will not spoil is the uncertain fate that awaits their characters in this film, already in theaters.