José Miguel Pascual Labrador |
Madrid (EFE).- Immersed in the last phases before the start of her first feature film as a director, the actress Paz Vega has praised culture, literature, music and, of course, cinema as “that space of yours and of nobody else” in which to pause, reflect and enjoy “even the silence in a world with so much noise”.
In a new stage of his professional life, Vega explained in an interview with EFE that “it is being a beautiful and intense process”, and that developing this project is something he has wanted to do since he began his acting career.
“Since I stepped foot on a filming set, I was innately curious about the creation process, about how to tell a story in images, and I feel that the time has come to tell a story from my point of view. It is being an exciting journey ”, she has expressed.
In addition, she has revealed that she is sketching the first lines of what she wants to be her second film as a director, since she also wants to delve into her facet in writing scripts: “writing requires an interesting discipline, it’s complicated but very beautiful when they go things come out and take shape”.
Rita recording this summer
For the moment, this summer the recording of Rita will begin, the story of a little girl, set in her native Seville, who faces her day-to-day life and through which she wants to capture a message about innocence and the world of children.
This same year the last film in which she participates as one of the protagonists will also hit the screens, ‘Luciérnagas en El Mozote’, recorded in 2022 in El Salvador and based on the massacre of some 1,000 civilians at the hands of the Salvadoran army in 1981 .
“Cinema has this responsibility to educate or question uncomfortable issues where perhaps no one else wants to see and that must be reviewed so as not to stumble on the same stone,” he has assessed about this work.
Connection with Latin America
Paz Vega’s connection with Latin America is so extensive that, this Saturday, April 22 in Madrid, she will be one of the three people in charge of hosting the gala for the X edition of the Platino Awards for Ibero-American cinema, together with the Colombian actress Carolina Gaitán and the Mexican comedian Omar Chaparro.
The Spanish artist is “very excited” about this opportunity and about the possibility of collaborating with “two greats” like Omar, with whom she had met on a television program in Mexico and whose “infinite talent” she values, and like Carolina, with which you will work for the first time.
“The chemistry is going to be fantastic, we have in-person rehearsals this week, but the meetings and script readings before that have been fantastic. Regarding presenting three voices, I say that three are better than one because you always have the support of your colleagues, ”he told Agencia EFE.
Finally, he wanted to highlight the good moment of the Ibero-American audiovisual industry, with great international recognition and with “meeting points” such as the Platino Awards, which, in his opinion, allow us to strengthen “our ties even more” and that jobs that do not leave their borders can have “a showcase to the world”.