Mexico City – Actor Gael Garcรญa Bernal isโค diving into audio drama productionโฃ with hisโ companyโข La Corriente del Golfo, inโ partnership with Audible, Amazon’s audiobook platform. Bernal narrates and โproduces both Hilde Krรผger: fiction โand war – a six-episode series โdetailing the story of a German โฃactress and Nazi tasked with โinfiltrating Mexican politics in the 1930s -โค and a newโค adaptation of Franz Kafka‘s The Metamorphosis.
The Hildeโ Krรผger โฃ series, based on aโ 2016 account from โ el Paรญs, portrays aโ Mexico teeming โwith espionage during a turbulent period. โฃ”It’s exciting to do โขsomething about spies. This country was full of spiesโ at that time.It was aโฃ cauldron and Mexico was a fantastic โvessel for theโฃ struggle between spies,” Bernal told El Paรญs. Heโ envisions the story’sโค structure as โคideally suited โfor a โradio soap opera format, a โgenre he feels has โคbeen lost โขin Mexico since the rise of commercialโข radio in the โ20th century.โข
Bernal, alongside co-stars Ilse salas โฃandโข Poncho Herrera in Hildeโ Krรผger, and Mauricio Isaac and Cassandra Ciangherotti in The Metamorphosis, believes the human voice remains irreplaceable, evenโ with advances in artificial โintelligence.Despite preferring customary books, he appreciates audio โproductions for their ability to “enter other worlds.” He โฃalso notedโ a longing for a time “where โขone could โgossip about โฃthings without capitalizing onโ one side or the other,”โ drawing parallelsโค between the โฃpast world of espionage and the present day.
