Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival has brought together the “future of the profession” in a round table moderated by Greater Wyoming with Paco León and Karra Elejalde, who have recommended the next filmmakers “go easy” to land a role.
As the double Goya Award and Gaudí Award winner Karra Elejalde has explained to the new actors who have attended this festival program, there are “practical tips” to those who have been told to be “registered” to survive a casting.
“When I became the director I looked at the different” and that is advice that I would have appreciated in his early years, has indicated the actor, for whom “being different, getting out of the easy” can be the key to getting a role .
“Think about the first option and the second, discard them, and go do the other thing that occurs to you” because “if it’s about climbing a mountain, don’t follow the path, get to the same place from another side with ingenuity.”
His advice to future actors and actresses is to set their sights and be different and original to stand out, an idea in which the Ondas Award has abounded with three Goya nominations, Paco León.
But in the case of Paco León, he has advised against the profession because “few of us are lucky enough to make a living from cinema and that must be known”, although, “if they cannot avoid it, because there is something inevitable in this profession”, he has advised that ” do things, don’t stop, don’t wait for the phone to ring”.
For León “if there is something good in you, someone will see it and you only learn by doing”.
In a conversation moderated by the Greater Wyoming dotted with anecdotes, Paco León recalled that he caught the attention of a director in an ‘autocasting’ by doing it differently, “I started eating cereal, to give myself time to think” and the director liked it .
José Miguel Monzón, the Great Wyoming, has highlighted in the Miller Building in the capital of Gran Canaria that “this stage is not built by chance”, and today’s actors such as Paco León and Karra Elejalde “are the embodiment of a dream of many people , and this seeks to be a face-to-face meeting between future professional colleagues”.
He has valued the work of an actor and actress: “It is very beautiful, it takes many hours and a lot of effort that if you are lucky it will be well paid and with social recognition.”
As for success, Karra Elejalde has warned that “it is a double-edged sword” and has joked about his career, as he has revealed that he has been ruined seven times and “lined four”.
Elejalde has confessed that he started in the profession “by chance” and without having to go to an academy or obtain a degree, but he had “more than 20 years of monologues”, among many other hours of work and that in his case he He “chose the cinema, not the other way around”
Paco León’s first steps were very different: “From a very young age, when I was 4 or 5 years old, I wrote that I was going to be an actor, although I don’t know what I imagined of this at that age.”
In addition, it has affected that he comes from a family with great careers in the world of cinema.
On the first steps and the characters that brought them out of anonymity, Karra Elejalde has highlighted his role in “Ocho apellidos vascos”, which, although it was not the first successful one in his career, was the one that made him most popular.
Elejalde has also recommended to new actors “not to be corseted or overact”, because, sometimes, “you have to do nothing to do it well”, because “overdoing it in the cinema is horrible”.
Paco León has pointed out that the character that made him popular was ‘Luisma’ in “Aída”, and that in “Homo Zapping” the character of Raquel Revuelta “had a hard time killing her, she was a Frankenstein that ate me”. EFE