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Date March 01, 2009
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Enrique Murciano's restroom (W.C.).
Jason Day and Enrique Murciano introduce their last work: "Máncora".
E: I'm Enrique Murciano and I play Iñigo.
J: I'm Jason Day and I play Santiago.
E. Eh, well, I'm fan of Ricardo. He called me and told me ‘hey, I
have a movie and I'd like to meet you'. We met and I like him, as a
person. He's an artist I respect deeply, I wanted to work with him
and... I met Jason, then Elsa and wow, it was a great team, so I
said, ‘well, I want to work with this people', and it happened,
didn't it, Jason?
J: Yes, the script had strong flashes of live that later at the set,
we worked and improved amazingly. Well, I read the script and I just
knew that, sure, I had chosen the place where I wanted to stay, I
wanted to shoot that amazing trip to the north of Perú, to a
completely unknown place to the world.
Q: What would you say it was the most difficult scene?
E: There were many, eh... but the most difficult scenes are the ones
you enjoy the most because I enjoyed a lot of that... (he looks at
Jason) the one we filmed during the party, the one we didn't cut...
J: Yes it was great.
E: Excellent and difficult because there was no cut.
Q: What's about?
E: At the party I tell him, ‘wow, you went to bed with my wife and
you are a...'
J: Like kidding, right?
E: Yes.
J: Yes, of course, it was only one shot, without cut where you can
find lots of confronted emotions, feelings because... you know, if
you cut the scene, you leave and prepare yourself for the next one
but this was a scene with everybody, Santiago is under drug effects,
all of them are drinking, there are a lot of noise and lots of
different feelings in a very short scene. That was the difficult
part.
E: But it's only 50 seconds, 1 minute scene what it's very difficult
because as an actor, uhm... you think that if you fail, you can cut
and start again or well, the scene can be cut, fixed... but this was
a only shot so...
J: It was impossible to cut it, there's nothing to fix. Just one
shot, just it must to be perfect.
E: Well, eh... for me... I... Iñigo loves so much Enrique Murciano.
I, like an actor, always try to transmit the most from Enrique to
the character and... they have a lot in common. I'm sorry to tell
but, well, Iñigo is a dark person, Iñigo is learning, trying to grow
up as a human and I... I'm like that (minute 3.31 and next). I...
I'm trying to improve and everyday I manage to improve a litte
but... it's still a very long way.
(Then Jason continues but I don't know, but I think that Enrique is
affected by his character and it made him to think about himself a
lot)
J: It's like a common place, where we find characters growing up,
they are immersed in a concrete search. I think that, in general,
actors must to be in that search if they don't want to do always the
same. You must to keep looking the answer to questions like, what
I'm doing here?, why should I shoot this movie? Why should I expose,
exhibit myself that way? But there is something passionated and I
think this characters know that there is something in the life
waiting for them, they must to find it.
Q: Outside the set... I've read in a magazine that Enrique is able
to change a flat tire in 1 minute and 19 seconds...
E:Yes, eh well I'm older now so it's about 1 minute and 22 seconds
(laughters) but yes... I like cooking...
J: Really?
E: ... cooking, I like animals, I like blue color (laughters), eh...
what else... I don't know...
J: Pisco sour?
E: yeah... the pisco sour.
Q: What is that? (The interviewer doesn't know either)
(They exchange another local expression, I don't understand the
meaning. They don't really reply). J: (looking at Enrique): What
kind of trivia did you read about me?
Q: I found it extremely difficult to find out more trivia about you.
What happened?
J: No, there wasn't any trivia. I'm coming from Peru, I'm living
half time in L.A. trying to start my career there, trying to get
something that Enrique is already getting and well, happy, happy
with this movie, with Mancora. We are very very proud of this movie,
full of energy to continue working with directors with big deals, to
make to work hard, I want difficult roles.
Q: Tell us, to end, something funny at the set.
E: Oh, lots of things.
J: Yes, very funny. It's an amazing set.
E: Yes, we had fun as shooting.
(They look each other and say), Uhm... what we could say about the
set? (as they were hiding some things they both know. Enrique
crosses arms. Finally):
J: We have all great Enrique's inventions. We were in the middle of
the desert shooting a movie. Well we did have a lot of those... what
is... motos... trailers... I mean, we were in
the middle of the desert in Peru.
E: Trailers....
J: ... to keep our belongings and material because we were in the
middle of the desert...
E: Caravana (trailer... Enrique remembers the word in Spanish, he
had kept thinking)
J: ... and then, Enrique decided to make his own W.C. in the middle
of the desert. The producer, Diego, had gotten some special chairs
for us, very comfortable and so, and Enrique thought that it was
enough comfortable for him, so he cut a hole and carried the holed
chair to the desert...
E:... I took use of it for two weeks... it was great. There's
nothing greatest than using the restroom at the desert (he looks
around) with animals, surroundings...
J: Yes, yes, looking around to avoid the snakes.
Q: Genius! You're such a genious!
E: Thank you very much.