heads. Then there’s the next step when you get the chance to get in the room for the audition. Then you can try to do your best and convince them that maybe that part that was not written for someone with accent, or Latina, just someone in the world. It doesn’t matter from where. You can play that, and you can do something special, and you can make that part remarkable and something different. So it is still something that, every day, I still have to do. It’s a puzzle. There are so many things. I’m learning a lot about the industry too, and how it works, and how many people behind a project there are, and so many opinions. Who’s the other actor? They have to make it work. I guess in Cuba or Spain, it’s just different. The director wants you, you’re here. There’s more freedom in terms of choosing who you want for the part. I’m learning a lot. It’s good.
DO YOU HAVE A MASTERPLAN FOR YOUR CAREER OR JUST TAKE IT AS IT COMES? I don’t think about it. I just don’t want to do that to myself. I don’t want to put that pressure. I don’t want to create that anticipation and expectations for myself. Because I know for sure, because they’ve never done it, my parents are not waiting for me to come back home with a trophy or anything to prove. So that part never existed already. So the only one that can get in my head is just me, and I don’t want to do that. Whatever happens, happens.
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WHAT DID YOU TAKE AWAY FROM WORKING WITH AND BEING AROUND RYAN GOSLING AND HARRISON FORD WHEN YOU MADE ‘BLADERUNNER 2049’? I would say I was more impressed by how happy they are when they’re working. You can tell every single day they want to be there. You can tell they’re still passionate about it, they’re still playing on set, just talking about it and caring. They care about what they’re doing. They’re not on automatic pilot. They’re inspired and they’re working hard. They haven’t lost that love for your work. You can tell that’s what they want to do.
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DO YOU LOOK FOR CERTAIN KINDS OF ROLES OR DO YOU TAKE EACH ONE AS THEY COME? So far, I’ve done the best with what I’ve got, the best I can. Of course I see projects that I really want to do and parts that I really would love play, and I can get to that. There are many things I haven’t done and I want to do everything and beyond. I want to just try. I want to find just something unexpected that it’s intriguing when they hear I’m playing that part. What? How is she going to do that? Or how is that going to look? I don’t know. I want to create some impact. Until now, I’ve been always the wife or the girlfriend of the lead actor in a movie. I’ve learned a lot from it and really enjoyed it and I played it because I really wanted the part. But there’s more than that. There are great female roles that are not only reacting or creat- ing the situation for him to be the hero. I want to show how strong and smart women are. We go through so much. We need to see that
THERE ARE GREAT FEMALE ROLES THAT ARE NOT
ONLY REACTING OR CREATING THE SITUATION FOR HIM TO BE THE HERO. I WANT TO SHOW HOW STRONG AND SMART WOMEN ARE.
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on screen. Those female parts, not many, but they are out there, and I have to find some. I want that chance.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU GET BACK TO CUBA? I go pretty often. It depends on how busy I am that year. Some years I’ve only been once. So it always depends. I’m on the phone with my parents all the time, by email, with my friends. I’m in touch with my people always. I don’t feel I’m disconnected or even not there. Probably you pay more attention when you’re not there than when you’re there. So I feel very close to Cuba and my family and friends.
HAVE YOU FOUND A PLACE IN LOS ANGELES THAT YOU CAN BE PRETTY HAPPY WITH THEIR CUBAN FOOD? When I’m craving croquettes and papa rellenas and all that, I always go to Porto’s, because those croquettes, you don’t find better croquettes than those.
WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD DO YOU LIVE IN? West Hollywood.
IS THAT A SPOT IN LA THAT YOU LIKE TO BE? No. But it’s very convenient. I was living in Topanga for a while and I loved it. I love that nature and animals. It was so calm and so nice, but it was way too far. I had too many things to do. I never knew if I was going to make it to the airport because Ubers and taxis don’t go there. It was always a thing. And all the meetings, and auditions and everything, it was too much. So I had to move back to West Hollywood. It’s good.
THANK YOU
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