The Mallorcan actress Mara López (Alcúdia, 1992) has found in Mexico the ideal place to live and work. In fact, the Aztec country has received her with open arms and she has not stopped working since she crossed the pond in 2018. Not in vain, her first roles there had quite an impact, all of them fictions. of TV: Luis Miguel. The Serie (second season), from Netflix; the comedy of family affairs Accidental heirswith Claro Video, as well as the most recent My uncle (Prime Video), The King: Vicente Fernández, Mask vs knight o The curse. Now, in 2024, he will finally make the leap to the big screen with his first leading role in the horror movie Wake.
Estela is a “psychological thriller with paranormal overtones”Mara López herself details to this newspaper from Mexico. “It’s my first leading role and this character is a great challenge,” she says. In the film she gets into the skin of Estela, a woman who She is looking to be a mother and she can’t get it. That goal leads him to move with her partner next to a lake and, there, she manages to get pregnant. From there “they happen all kinds of situations Within a very complex story, Estela is a woman who goes through all kinds of states and many things happen to her,” she adds.
«When I got the script I loved the story and from that very moment I began to prepare, the whole process of getting into character was very hard, many hours and during filming I am practically on scene all the time with very strong scenes, very powerful“I had to be in everything.” In fact, scorpions appear in the film and during filming “one stung me, thank goodness they had removed the poison,” she recalls with great humor.
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Mexican filmmaker Adrián Araujo is behind Wake and, furthermore, it supposes directorial debut with this film, while the script is signed by Gil Espejo, also an Aztec. Thus, it is an important project: «It is a before and after in my career, I have learned a lot and I’ve done things I never thought I could do.I proved to myself that I was capable, it was time to film and everything fell on me, but the truth is that it has been a gift, After this I feel super prepared for anything», narrates López. He is accompanied in the cast by Cristian Gamero and Meteora Fontana, among others.
When it premieres Wake? The film is currently in the post-production and editing phase by Luis de la Madrid, a “very important horror genre editor”, points out López. “It makes me very happy that it is being set up in Spain,” he adds. Thus, the film is scheduled to hit movie theaters at the end of 2024, “we want and hope that the whole world sees it, I hope that is the case, we are very happy with the movie».
And after a well-deserved rest after filming Wake“I really needed it,” she confesses, Mara López will continue casting and working on new projects, also in advertising: «I have made many advertisements here in Mexico»he concludes.
2024-03-01 23:28:19
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