Elena Anaya stars in ‘Jaula’, an overwhelming journey into the light from the darkest and in the key of a ‘thriller’ with which Ignacio Tatay makes his debut
“I do not like horror films. I am very afraid and left many films before the end ”, confesses Elena Anaya (Palencia, age 47). But the actress did not hesitate to look for the new filmmaker Ignacio Tatay when she read the script for ‘Cage’, an intense and overwhelmingly terrifying ‘thriller’ that “travels from darkness to light”.
This film will premiere this Friday without monsters showing horrific human monstrosities. “The most terrifying monsters aren’t the furry and drooling ones, they’re the ones we have on our minds,” agrees the director and actress who, due to a pandemic, went from shooting Woody Allen to Tatay’s command.
«’Cage’ seduced me when I read the script. I didn’t like it much. I spoke to Ignacio and I was in love,” explains Anaya, who went from working at ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ with a 90-year-old film giant like Allen, with nearly a hundred films to his credit, to a debutant. they’re not directing us,” says the actress, who made her debut with Fernando León in “Familia” (1996).
“I knew it would be a complex, complicated journey, but very attractive as an actress,” says the interpreter of the demanding nature of Paula, a woman longing to become a mother, who has spent years trying to fulfill the dream of becoming a mother. child and who has brought Anaya back to the big screen. “I keep something from every character. Of these, with courage, empathy and the need to do whatever it takes to protect, care for and expose an unprotected being, very vulnerable and in great pain,” he explains.
It’s about Clara, a girl who plays the British Eva Tennear, obsessed with monsters and convinced that if she leaves a chalk painting on the floor, she will suffer evil. The calf is an interpretive marvel from which Anaya and all the team acknowledge “learned a lot”. “I met actors with a lot of experience who didn’t have the depth of Eva,” says the director. “We worked together to protect her vulnerability, with exercises to reach emotional states that would allow her to tell the character and it was intense. She didn’t speak Spanish, so there was another cage, that was language,” says Anaya.
After thirty years of career, the winner of a 2011 Goya Award for “The Skin I Live In,” “another horror film,” says she “finally” learned to distance herself from the character and leave him on set. or stage when come back home Something that is especially needed in this film where he is confronted with horrific situations and confronted by murderers, kidnappers and child molesters. “This story speaks of the absolute horror that can reside in a human monster. And so are the real monsters, the ones that do exist,” he says.
Anaya is a mother and assures that it has been “critical” to put the character together. “Being a mother makes you a different person, it gives you a different perspective on life and love that nothing and no one can convey to you,” she says. “I couldn’t have made the character ten years younger. It’s been essential to tackle it at this point in my life. I know the wear and tear, the pain, the frustration and the need of those who want to become mothers,” says he.
The film is about psychological and real cages. “What I fear most and which encourages me to stick with a chalk drawing like Clara is, is the lack of empathy in people. It scares me that so many people think only of themselves without understanding that we need each other on a planet that cannot be reinvented, scanned or unfolded,” said the actress.
Anaya, who confesses that she is “particularly proud of ‘Jaula'”, has two premieres in preparation, ‘Fatum’, a film by another new filmmaker, Juan Galiñanes, in which she plays a police station, and ‘Passenger Lies’, a comedy produced by El Deseo for television.
The recording of ‘Cage’, set in a border region with France, was made possible thanks to Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang, who took on the production with their Pokeepsie horror label. “I sent them the script on a Wednesday afternoon and the next morning Carolina called me to tell me they would be producing it and that Álex decided after reading it in one sitting,” Tatay boasts.
Shooting was interrupted for many months due to incarceration, forcing the actors to overload to shoot winter scenes in the middle of summer. The cast is completed by Carlos Santos, Eva Llorach, Esther Aebo, Eloy Azorín and Pablo Molinero.
Source: La Verdad
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