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2 de octubre de 2017

The essence of me


My love, my love for cinema. I grew up watching classic movies, Black and white films, mostly from Hollywood, two per week, minimum, sometimes even five. I felt in love with the magic of the cinema. The music, the photography, the cameras, all the technique behind, the told histories, the scripts, the dialogues, every director and his peculiar perspective of filming the plot....but the most attractive bit, the actors and their work.

When a movie was good, I totally accepted the history I was watching, in the facts I was seeing. Beyond believing in the actors and their interpretation, I felt like their characters. I was empathising so much that I was getting into the role.

I had dreams where I was a witness of that golden age in Hollywood. I prowl around the sets. I met Hitchcock. I observed Gene Kelly rehearsing a choreography before shooting. I saw how Katherine Hepburn was preparing herself for a role. I dreamt of meeting them all, of being one like them. Someone with the possibility of doing what they do and they do: suffer, love, hate....and convince to whoever is watching me that what is happening is real. To be able to provoke something in the spectator, to touch the audience the same way I felt.