Word: garcã
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Gael (pronounced guile) knows what he wants, all right: the good education of an actor. "What's cool about acting," he says, "is the opportunity it gives you to be always learning, always preparing. It's a very beautiful path of knowledge." But these days Garc??a Bernal finds it hard to catch a breath. "I'm 25, and I still cannot say how my life is," he observes with a charming, disarming bafflement. "I feel like I have nowhere to rest. I think about having a dog but know I can't, because it's impossible with this life...
...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." Garc??a 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...
...Bardem's performance in Before Night Falls made him the first Spaniard nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. This year there could be two nominees from Spanish-speaking countries: Bardem as a paraplegic who persistently petitions for euthanasia in Alejandro Amenábar's The Sea Inside and Garc??a Bernal in ... take your pick...
...Garc??a Bernal attacks each role with ardor and exhaustive research. Preparing to play the young Guevara, he says, "for four months we were reading all the biographies, meeting people that met him, interviewing his family, studying leprosy, studying the economic and political cultures of Argentina and Peru. I went to visit where he was born, to get the blessings of the gods...
...bonds with include a gorgeous leper) and nearly sinks in bathos (he swims a wide river for one last visit to the leper colony). It's all to demonstrate the radicalizing of a guerrilla hero. "We wanted to show where Che came from and where he was going," Garc??a Bernal says. "So finding the tone was very delicate, like fine embroidery." Certainly his participation is faultless. He brings to the role a winsomeness and dawning wisdom. Before your eyes, a boy grows into an angry young...