Journalist: What did it mean for you to work together again?
William Francella: “We really wanted to work with Marcos, the last time was in 2013 with ‘Corazón de León’, which was a fantastic experience and we always talked about ‘when will we cross paths again on a shoot’, ‘when were we going to film’ and we were given this script by Nicolás Giacobone, which I offered to see what he thought, since I wanted to do it and he told me I wanted to be in the game.
Mark Carnevale: It was a pleasure for me to work with Guille, beyond the fact that he is my friend and gives me great pleasure, ‘Corazón de León’ was a very important film in my career and having made it with him made it even more important and we also played a huge ‘tute’ because at that time the technology is not what we have today, that is, the dwarf was a total risk and guille took the risk to make that film with me and it went fantastically well.
Q.: What difficulties did you face facing the project regarding visual effects?
GF: It was a good opportunity in a film that is very difficult to make because of all the catastrophe cinema, which is something that has never been done in Argentina and how it happened to us with the dwarf from ‘Corazón de León’, we wanted it to have credibility, the theme of the special effects, because otherwise the film could not be told, if the storm were not real it could not be told.
MC: No catastrophe cinema has ever been made in Argentina and I was enormously seduced before telling Giacobone, the production and others that we were going to make this film, we did a check with Alejandro Valente who is the head of effects to see if we were really going to to be able to do what I wanted. Breaking with a catastrophic storm was not going to surprise anyone, but the plus that this has is that we are going to break our very recognizable icons, which makes it more impressive. We are used to seeing the Statue of Liberty smashed, but not the Obelisk or Congress. So all that made her very close and empathetic to the film, and we confirmed that we could do it.
Q.: What was it like going through the variety of genres that “Granizo” presents?
GF: I felt very cared for him (Carnevale) because it is a film that has a very important arc going through emotion, humor, moments of tension, this new culture of cancellation carried out in a delicate way because any unfortunate phrase or misfortune how what has happened to ‘Miguel Flores’ who, being someone practically infallible as he is called by the press and the public, becomes a meme for having made a mistake, they write him down, he has to leave the place where he lives. From the interpretive point of view, exploring certain behaviors of a character, the reunion with his daughter, having gone through success and being abandoned with his daughter, that confusion that success generates in certain artists was very interesting to go through and having Marcos accompany me has been vital. We are friends, we love each other but also because he trusted his eye and how he could tell this.
MC: It was a challenge to achieve an amalgamation of the many genres that the film has, which goes through a genre that I find very comfortable, which is ‘dramedy’, the mixture of drama and comedy, and catastrophe cinema that did not have to be an island, everything had to be amalgamated to be one single thing. And that was a challenge for Guillermo as an actor, he had to believe all that, the film was challenging and that made it extremely attractive for us who made it.
“Hail” It is directed by Mark Carnevale from a script Nicholas Giacobone and Ferdinand Balmayor. The cast is composed of Guillermo Francella, Romina Fernandes, Peto Menahem, Laura Fernández, Martín Seefeld, Nicolás Scarpino, Norman Briski, Viviana Saccone, Pompeyo Audivert and Eugenia Guerty.
“Hail” arrives at Netflix March 30th.
Source: Ambito
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