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...Star Is Born From Y Tu Mamá También to Bad Education, Mexican actor Gael García Bernal burns up the screen...
...great directors like Visconti and Fellini but also actors like Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. Now in Latin America you have Alejandro González Iñárritu [Amores Perros] and Alfonso Cuarón [Y Tu Mamá También] but also a generation of young, talented actors such as Gael." García Bernal realizes his good fortune: "Destiny and luck have given me and many other actors the chance to be in a certain position where no one else has been...
...theater actors, young Gael was often picked for roles in their productions--"playing around," he calls it. "I knew I was supposed to act," he says, "but not as a professional." An improbable chain reaction triggered his career. At 17, he was studying philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico when a strike was called. He decided to take a trip. The cheapest European tickets were to London, so he went there, got a job as a barman and began studying acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Before he graduated in 2001, he took time...
...identities, and Almodóvar saw that ability in García Bernal: "The script demanded someone who would be absolutely desirable both as a woman and as a man, who would be spontaneously virile and not be grotesque when the role was that of a transvestite. From the first tests, Gael was the one who was physically successful in both roles...
...much more Spanish." But whatever the on-the-set spats, the results are spectacular. Whether sporting a macho beard or a cascading blond wig, García Bernal makes his character sexy, annoying ... fully human. Almodóvar sees that cocktail of emotions in the actor: "What I like about Gael is that mixture of innocence and passion, tight secrecy and tenderness, sensuality and unconsciousness...