Speaker 1: You're listening to play back a Variety I Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Variety Awards Editor Chris Tapley. This week,
Speaker 1: we continue our streak of chats with Oscar nominees with
Speaker 1: Marina did Tavera, the supporting Actress nominee from Alphonso Quaron's Roma.
Speaker 1: She was a surprise supporting Actress nominee at that which
Speaker 1: was kind of awesome. Um, Marina is one of the
Speaker 1: coolest people on the circuit. She's been such a great
Speaker 1: presence all year long. And uh, I don't know, you
Speaker 1: look for these moments every year. I guess where uh
Speaker 1: you can kind of see the seismic potential of I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, this time of year or this recognition and
Speaker 1: what it can mean for a career. And I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna be seeing a lot more of Marina in
Speaker 1: the future. And I'm happy to finally catch up with him.
Speaker 1: So here's my chat with Marina di Tavera. Rainy weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's usually better than this, as you know, well, ye,
Speaker 1: but it's not that bad because you know, it could
Speaker 1: be a lot worst, could be in New York, could
Speaker 1: be in Chicago. Man of Lake, Michigan. It was like
Speaker 1: frozen completely. So I'm not. I'm not a cold weather
Speaker 1: person at all. In fact, the warmer for me, the better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bring up questions. I'm not checking text messages.
Speaker 1: I well, you never know, you never know these days.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, everyone, I'm here with Marina di Tavera,
Speaker 1: the Oscar nominated star of Roma. Thank you for coming
Speaker 1: on the show first and foremost. You say that, and
Speaker 1: I just don't. I mean, huh, I can't believe it yet.
Speaker 1: Tell me about that morning I was. I burst into
Speaker 1: applause spontaneously because it was like the second and they called,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, what was your morning? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, were you awake watching this unfold? Yes? I
Speaker 1: was awake, totally aware that the nominations were coming out.
Speaker 1: I was waking my son up for him to go
Speaker 1: to school. But and I was expecting that Roma made
Speaker 1: some nominations in some categories, but I wouldn't. I never
Speaker 1: expected to be on the list, like in a personal nomination.
Speaker 1: So when I heard it, I just I screamed. I
Speaker 1: ran to my son's room and I was yelling like
Speaker 1: I got nominated, I got nomine And he was like
Speaker 1: what what what do what the film? Do you mean
Speaker 1: the film? And I was not, I don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but me so, yeah, I think it's the first time
Speaker 1: I've cried out of joy. That's a great way to
Speaker 1: wake up your something. Yeah, I got him out. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to go back and just kind
Speaker 1: of get to know you a little bit. Like your
Speaker 1: passion for acting? Where did they come from? Was at
Speaker 1: an early age? I read this thing. Tell me if
Speaker 1: this is true, you were six and you snuck out
Speaker 1: onto a glass ceiling or something during rehearsals for Macbeth.
Speaker 1: Is this true? Well, yeah, my my my dad, My
Speaker 1: dad had this um a group of the actors that
Speaker 1: used to come home for rehearsky. He wanted to be
Speaker 1: an actor. Then he couldn't. He ended up being a lawyer,
Speaker 1: and then and then his life went in another way.
Speaker 1: But he always kept doing theater at home. We had
Speaker 1: even we didn't even have a space. We called theater
Speaker 1: the theater, and he would rehearse there. So I would
Speaker 1: always like spy on them. And and this was a
Speaker 1: Macbeth version of Yanesco, the the French dramatist. And and
Speaker 1: and I was like spying and then the glass broke
Speaker 1: and everybody noticed I was there, like he crashed onto
Speaker 1: the scene. Yeah, so what was the draw? Why were
Speaker 1: you so interested? Why why were you spying on this?
Speaker 1: Because it was theater for me was a world I
Speaker 1: wanted to belong to. I come from a family that
Speaker 1: has a tradition, so I was able to go to
Speaker 1: see some place that were not even for children and
Speaker 1: then get to go backstage and see the actresses, and
Speaker 1: they were my relatives. So I would always think, I
Speaker 1: want to belong to that world. There's something that they
Speaker 1: have that moves me really deeply, and and I just
Speaker 1: wanted my life to be about that and that that
Speaker 1: I knew it like from like in my early years.
Speaker 1: What do you think it was? Was it there's a
Speaker 1: sense of community in theater? I don't know if it's that.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what what? What is it that was
Speaker 1: specifically grabbing you? Was just the kind of they the
Speaker 1: way they seem to to recreate a completely different world,
Speaker 1: like they immerged in another reality and and and watching
Speaker 1: that as a as as an audience was like, um,
Speaker 1: they really made my me like I had experienced things
Speaker 1: I didn't imagine. So I I said I want to
Speaker 1: be there. I want to be one of them. I
Speaker 1: want to be one of the ones that create this
Speaker 1: completely different world. So make Believe as a kid like
Speaker 1: where you I don't know one of the cheesy questions
Speaker 1: that you ask actors about their childhood, right like where
Speaker 1: you playing make Believe a lot? Where you were you
Speaker 1: into that kind of just did you like putting on
Speaker 1: shows for family members and stuff where you much outward spirit?
Speaker 1: I mean, was this just all a part of who
Speaker 1: you were? I mean, that was my favorite game to
Speaker 1: to like. It was called plays with my cousins, and
Speaker 1: we used to do like you have fifteen minutes to
Speaker 1: do a play and you have fifth and then we
Speaker 1: watch yours and then you watch ours. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: about a contest. It was just about the doing a play.
Speaker 1: And and I mean I was I didn't watch TV
Speaker 1: a lot. I didn't have permission to watch to be
Speaker 1: only one hour a day, so I would yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean maybe at the yeah it was. It felt strict
Speaker 1: at the moment, But now I really am it ful
Speaker 1: because that like opened up imagination and you know, something
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to be a part of just
Speaker 1: makes you want to do it all the more. I guess, yeah, absolutely. Um,
Speaker 1: you know with this film with Roma, you know you
Speaker 1: didn't know it was an Alfonso Korn movie to begin with.
Speaker 1: As I understand it, what what was the early process
Speaker 1: of getting involved with Roma, like before knowing as director? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, for actress, auditions and castings are part of
Speaker 1: our daily life. I think it's when we suffer the most. Well,
Speaker 1: for me, it is that way. You have to like
Speaker 1: always being facing real rejection or not or you know,
Speaker 1: the nervousness of not knowing. But that's what we do.
Speaker 1: So I was called up for for an addition and
Speaker 1: they say, believe me, this is something special. We just
Speaker 1: can't tell you much, but it's worth it. So I
Speaker 1: just went on and do it. And they they told
Speaker 1: me it was going to be going to be something
Speaker 1: between the nineties seventies and that it was about a divorce.
Speaker 1: So I said to myself, Oh, I know about that.
Speaker 1: I know about that. I think I can't portray it.
Speaker 1: So I just kept on doing it. They kept calling
Speaker 1: me back, and then at the end of the third one,
Speaker 1: I think they said that it was Alfonso who was
Speaker 1: going to direct this film. I knew he was coming
Speaker 1: back to Mexico because we had heard about that, you know,
Speaker 1: you hear about those things. And but I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: so that's the film I've been auditioning for. So it
Speaker 1: was really crazy. Made the decision easy at that point,
Speaker 1: I imagine, I mean, we're you weren't looking at a
Speaker 1: script though right now, we're just kind of doing interaction
Speaker 1: stuff with the ALSA and stuff like this. I mean,
Speaker 1: well not with her. I mean I met her out
Speaker 1: there at the end of the process. Also by myself.
Speaker 1: The first one was only talking about who I was,
Speaker 1: like my biography, where was I born, what what neighborhood
Speaker 1: I was raised in, and my parents story. And then
Speaker 1: they just said, now we're going to make an imp
Speaker 1: l It's about a woman that's waiting for her husband.
Speaker 1: She knows that something's been going on. And then and
Speaker 1: then I thought, at the moment, you know, the very
Speaker 1: first reaction like impulse would be like be really mad
Speaker 1: and jelling and you know. And then I said, but
Speaker 1: that's not it. That's not the way it would be
Speaker 1: in that time, or even that's not the way it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, so I went into it. They did it
Speaker 1: the complete opposite way. I just like said, waited there,
Speaker 1: and when I had like to talk to to the
Speaker 1: guy was just so really calmed. And and then when
Speaker 1: alf also talked to me about the character, it really
Speaker 1: made sense because she said that the woman in that
Speaker 1: moment and and and Sophia specifically will never like be
Speaker 1: um asking something for her husband, like in a violent
Speaker 1: way or in a because they couldn't because because she
Speaker 1: was like in a very vulnerable, uh moment in her life,
Speaker 1: like he was the one that was ringing the money home,
Speaker 1: and so she had to really play it down. Uh.
Speaker 1: And hopefully you know movie has been out for a while.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Rome, it's on Netflix. Go see
Speaker 1: it right now. It's the best movie of the year. Um.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before, but let's let's break it
Speaker 1: down for folks. You did not get to look at
Speaker 1: a script. It was very much discover your reality day
Speaker 1: by day, your professional actress, surrounded by a lot of
Speaker 1: non actors, a lot of first time actors, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're the pro of the bunch, and presumably
Speaker 1: your kind of instincts would be rubbed against a little
Speaker 1: bit by this process. So just tell me how the
Speaker 1: process of not having a script and learning things data.
Speaker 1: How how that affected you as a professional actor. Well,
Speaker 1: not having the script didn't really affect me. You know,
Speaker 1: in acting school you're used to play with whatever they
Speaker 1: tell you to do. Sometimes they just give you directions
Speaker 1: like and you go ahead and play it and improvise
Speaker 1: the scenes. So that wasn't really a problem. I think
Speaker 1: it was understanding what the what I fonto want it
Speaker 1: we should? It was like difficult for me to understand
Speaker 1: at the beginning because he would give us the lines,
Speaker 1: but then he would say, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: really say exactly the same words, and there's some small
Speaker 1: room for improvising. But that's that means with dealing with
Speaker 1: what you don't expect and what once it happens you
Speaker 1: have there You have room to do whatever it comes,
Speaker 1: but not that much. I mean you can't just play
Speaker 1: another scene. I mean, you know, invent something something weird.
Speaker 1: So getting adjusting to that that was difficult to understand
Speaker 1: that that was what we did the first week. It
Speaker 1: was like trying to really understand what he meant like
Speaker 1: because it's not improvising, but it's not all but all.
Speaker 1: It also isn't like the way we we usually do that.
Speaker 1: We we stick to the words that we have and
Speaker 1: we rehearse. There were no rehearsals at all, and there
Speaker 1: was no previous work. We shot this in chronological order,
Speaker 1: and the only previous work I did with al phones.
Speaker 1: So it was a very long talk about what he
Speaker 1: remembered about his mother, and he didn't say anything about
Speaker 1: what was going to happen to her in the during
Speaker 1: the film. He just stopped at the very moment where
Speaker 1: we would do the first thing, he said everything that
Speaker 1: she had lived just before, and then we started with
Speaker 1: no rehearsals, with no like getting to know the other actors,
Speaker 1: because he truly believed and I think he was right
Speaker 1: that that would actually emerge by the way we were working,
Speaker 1: and because he think I think he thought that he
Speaker 1: had like really really concentrated in choosing the right person
Speaker 1: for each character and that they could really emboid it
Speaker 1: and they that they had it within them. We had it? Yeah, Well, um,
Speaker 1: was it? Were you nervous knowing that you were playing
Speaker 1: his mother? Isn't you know? In this movie? Essentially? And
Speaker 1: that that kind of gives you the sense that there's
Speaker 1: an even more watchful eye on you than just a
Speaker 1: director I mean, you're playing a man's mother, so well,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't. I was really nervous, really really nervous.
Speaker 1: I remember the first day I walked and the first
Speaker 1: day I worked there, my heart was being so so
Speaker 1: fast that the people on sound were really worried because
Speaker 1: they couldn't hear my words, they were only listening to
Speaker 1: my heart. So but it wasn't because of I was
Speaker 1: because I was playing his mother. It was because I
Speaker 1: was working with him, and I really he I mean,
Speaker 1: I sometimes you when you admire someone so much, you
Speaker 1: feel like, really, I want to be up to the standards.
Speaker 1: I really don't want to fail here, you know, fail
Speaker 1: him because he trusted me, but the fact that it
Speaker 1: was his mother that really didn't because I felt I
Speaker 1: could really relate to it, and I trusted that he
Speaker 1: knew why he chose me, and I knew what he
Speaker 1: chose me because Sophia has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: my own mother and has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: my life. So it was it was about him and
Speaker 1: about really trying to understand what he wanted. Because I
Speaker 1: I understood it wasn't something like common like just common acting.
Speaker 1: It was something else you touched on this, but I
Speaker 1: was just wondering how much like you put yourself into
Speaker 1: the role, but put your own personal I guess life
Speaker 1: or whatever under the role. I mean, was that is
Speaker 1: that something you do anyway as an actress? That because
Speaker 1: we talked about make believe you know something, a bit
Speaker 1: of escapism and that as well. But as an actress,
Speaker 1: do you enjoy putting yourself into the part that you're playing?
Speaker 1: And now I I think I can't work in another way.
Speaker 1: I always I'm always pulling from my own experience, and
Speaker 1: of course the character's experience is not it's never yours,
Speaker 1: and and sometimes they go through things you've never gone through,
Speaker 1: but you can relate to something in your life I have.
Speaker 1: I always have to pull from my own experience. But
Speaker 1: sometimes it's sometimes you have more, more, more, more things
Speaker 1: to work with. And in this case with Sophia, I
Speaker 1: had a lot, a lot, a lot. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I could have been one of those kids, you know
Speaker 1: my story, my it could have been one of the
Speaker 1: it could have been little Sofia. Did you ever talked
Speaker 1: to phones about that or did you keep that here?
Speaker 1: And you know I kept it. He's heard about that
Speaker 1: now that we've been traveling together. And because we never
Speaker 1: made it like a irrational analysis of the film er
Speaker 1: of the characters. It was really about like surrendering to
Speaker 1: them in a you know, very emotional and deep and way,
Speaker 1: not not like thinking or talking or oh I remember this.
Speaker 1: It was just being a being there and feeling it.
Speaker 1: So I would I would mostly only listen to him.
Speaker 1: I would I would like never speak a lot. He
Speaker 1: would would, he would come to me. I would listen,
Speaker 1: and then he would come back again, and I would
Speaker 1: listen and I wouldn't. I was like trying to keep
Speaker 1: silent because I think I thought that if I talked
Speaker 1: too much, I was being doing something else. It about
Speaker 1: receiving and trying to respond with acting and not with
Speaker 1: thinking or words. And it's very immersive too when you're
Speaker 1: in these like meticulously recreated locations. Uh. I assume that
Speaker 1: does something for your performance as well, right, because you
Speaker 1: you feel like you're in his house, you feel like
Speaker 1: it's real totally. And he really took care of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he he respected our our acting process beautifully.
Speaker 1: It was very important for him that this was a house,
Speaker 1: that it would feel like a real house. That because
Speaker 1: even and since we were working with uh first time actors.
Speaker 1: It was like if they felt that they were on
Speaker 1: a set or something that would like, yeah, put them
Speaker 1: away from from the story and from the character's life.
Speaker 1: So it was a real, real house. Every every corner
Speaker 1: you looked at, it was filled with things, and so
Speaker 1: it really he really took care of that detail, like
Speaker 1: we could feel it was real life all the time constantly.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my my, my, my clothes were in
Speaker 1: the clothes were in the closet of Sofia's room. There's
Speaker 1: what the people from from. They would take them out
Speaker 1: from there. They were hanging there all the time. I
Speaker 1: think it deserves that award very much for a production
Speaker 1: design because it's so meticulous. I mean, it built this
Speaker 1: big street scene as well. And you know he's talked
Speaker 1: about telling the production designer, I might go into any
Speaker 1: one of these shows, so I needed to be filled
Speaker 1: out with everything. What's kind of mean. I know that,
Speaker 1: And it happened a lot that, like they when they
Speaker 1: were done, we're like, really, are you done? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean there's you didn't see that way and that
Speaker 1: way and that way. Now there you go. He's an artist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've traveled all over with this film, I mean the
Speaker 1: movie first it debuted at Venice and then went to
Speaker 1: tell you right where I saw where I saw it
Speaker 1: and I met you and Jelisa there. Um, I've been curious.
Speaker 1: I've asked you this before. But just meeting different people,
Speaker 1: seeing people different people react to the movie in different
Speaker 1: ways and sometimes very interestingly similar ways. What has just
Speaker 1: the road trip, there's a there's a celebration, Yeah somewhere,
Speaker 1: let's join me bring him in. No, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone heard that, but yeah, just seeing people
Speaker 1: react to it around the world, essentially in different ways.
Speaker 1: What's that been like for you? That was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of a surprise the first time, and it was
Speaker 1: intelliright actually, because in Venice, I didn't have a time,
Speaker 1: actually time to talk to anybody. I just saw like
Speaker 1: the the the applause, and everybody like stood up and
Speaker 1: applauded for like fifteen minutes I don't remember, but we
Speaker 1: didn't actually talk to anyone because we flew directly to Telly, right,
Speaker 1: So it was there where I could see the first
Speaker 1: time they were like screening the film and then I
Speaker 1: saw all these people coming out before the Q and
Speaker 1: A just going back really quick to the bathroom when
Speaker 1: they were crying, and then I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and they would say, oh god, mms, and I was
Speaker 1: did the film did this? And then there's where I
Speaker 1: started to see what it was happening and that people
Speaker 1: were really really relating to it, that it maybe at
Speaker 1: the beginning I thought that it may be something local
Speaker 1: or really like from Mexico, and then I realized that no,
Speaker 1: that that that that when you go really personal and
Speaker 1: compromise with that, somehow that hits everybody and it's childhood.
Speaker 1: It's childhood scars, and it's the people that raised us.
Speaker 1: And also uh incredible like questioning our our fear of
Speaker 1: difference and you know, racial difference and social difference. And
Speaker 1: I feel like the way he's filmed the movie and
Speaker 1: what we just talked about earlier, it really helps to
Speaker 1: and still empathy with the characters that are, you know,
Speaker 1: going through things you might have no understanding or experience with.
Speaker 1: But the way that he filmed the movie, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just it translates that empathy to you in some sense.
Speaker 1: And I mean I've said it before. I was like
Speaker 1: full body crying during a certain scene in a hospital
Speaker 1: late in the film, which is I think the scene
Speaker 1: that gets a lot of people. But there's just a
Speaker 1: matter of factness to the filmmaking that just allows you
Speaker 1: to come into it instead of being presentational. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I totally do. It's Uh, that's
Speaker 1: something I really he I think he really accomplished that.
Speaker 1: It's like there's no comment on anything, not even the
Speaker 1: fact that there's no score, you know, and like the
Speaker 1: camera is always like this distant eye of something really
Speaker 1: that that's happening, like in a really deep way, but
Speaker 1: there's not like that. That was important for acting. Also
Speaker 1: that he worked a lot with that, like never comment
Speaker 1: on your emotion as an actor, because sometimes as actors
Speaker 1: we we want to put in the surface what's going
Speaker 1: on in emotions because that's acting and you want the
Speaker 1: audience to see it. And in this case with Sophia,
Speaker 1: it was going the other way all the time, the
Speaker 1: other way, like if the emotion would come to the surface,
Speaker 1: he would stop and we would start again, and he
Speaker 1: would say, no, it has to be there in a
Speaker 1: really strong way, but never never show it or never
Speaker 1: even worse, try to show it. Yeah, And the way
Speaker 1: he's filming as well, Um, what was the most it
Speaker 1: was the most fun you had making the movie? Like,
Speaker 1: what was there scene that it was more enjoyable? Well,
Speaker 1: definitely the scene words of crushes the car. That was that.
Speaker 1: I mean he said, now you can't do it, go
Speaker 1: ahead and just enjoy it and do it. And I
Speaker 1: wanted you really and I and I never had he
Speaker 1: would tell me that that very same day. I was like,
Speaker 1: they call me, let's go. They call me on set,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what I was gonna do. So
Speaker 1: there's a car and then he comes and said, now
Speaker 1: are gonna crush it? You. We went out with your friends,
Speaker 1: you with your friend you had, you were drinking. You're
Speaker 1: really sad, you're really mad. You haven't heard about your husband,
Speaker 1: he hadn't sent any money, and you were just like
Speaker 1: drinking with your friends and letting it all out. And
Speaker 1: you're like driving and listening to this Mexican song about
Speaker 1: women pain, you know, and and the way they are
Speaker 1: like so heard by men, and then you at the
Speaker 1: beginning it's an accident. And then once you realize it's
Speaker 1: an accident, you just enjoy it and go and do it.
Speaker 1: And we did it like I don't know seven times,
Speaker 1: but I remember that. For me, the most difficult part
Speaker 1: in that scene was I was afraid of running the
Speaker 1: camera because he would say, just going, going, going, and
Speaker 1: when we say stop, you stopped, and I would always
Speaker 1: stop before, you know, like an impulse and that trust me,
Speaker 1: trust me. He would say, I'm gonna tell you when
Speaker 1: just trust me, and I was okay, okay, let's okay,
Speaker 1: I will because you know, the camera was really really near.
Speaker 1: And then you have that great line to Jalizza there
Speaker 1: as well, women are alone. Yeah, that's a sad line,
Speaker 1: but the way it's delivered is it's like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: just said he said that, like you're a little bit drunk,
Speaker 1: and there's you're enjoying your bitterness, yes, exactly, exactly. And
Speaker 1: then getting back to just people responding to it around
Speaker 1: the world, specifically back home in Mexico. You live in Mexico,
Speaker 1: so back home in Mexico City, you know, for instance,
Speaker 1: I know that one of the guys I worked with
Speaker 1: here his husband's Mexican, and he was saying, it's such
Speaker 1: a huge deal for an indigenous woman, Jaliza to have
Speaker 1: the nomination like that is such a huge thing down there.
Speaker 1: But you tell me, what is the reaction specifically since
Speaker 1: the Oscar nomination has been like to this, Well, they
Speaker 1: are really happy. They really feel it like something that's
Speaker 1: for everybody in Mexico, like like being really grateful that
Speaker 1: the movie has been being acknowledge in that way, in
Speaker 1: that huge way, Like they feel that this is for
Speaker 1: everybody in Mexico. And also they feel that it may
Speaker 1: be like an answer to to facing like our our
Speaker 1: both countries with much more like less fear less fear
Speaker 1: of difference, less fear of being, like it gets back
Speaker 1: to the empathy. Yeah, exactly, yeah, um yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's fantastic. This movie co led the nominations
Speaker 1: uh ten and again to see you both show up
Speaker 1: in the acting ranks was so awesome because you guys
Speaker 1: have been Have you ever worked this hard to life?
Speaker 1: I mean no, no, no, no, but you know it's
Speaker 1: been great. I know. I mean Netflix has on an
Speaker 1: outstanding work to put this film in film in the
Speaker 1: eyes of the world, and they've taken care of us,
Speaker 1: like it's been long. We've worked a lot, but we've
Speaker 1: always been like really very well taken care of and
Speaker 1: and we feel we're doing something that we never forget
Speaker 1: and that it's for our country, but for for the
Speaker 1: world and for just like seize the moment because it's
Speaker 1: something quite something. Yeah, now you're just back from Sundance.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want to mention this. You have
Speaker 1: a movie up there. Yeah, what was that called? That's
Speaker 1: it's called this is not Berlin. It's like it's a
Speaker 1: in the movie about the nineteen eighties in Mexico, because
Speaker 1: there was like this music and art movement going on
Speaker 1: that really was very important, like for the what came
Speaker 1: before in arts and in music, in rock and roll
Speaker 1: in Mexico. So there had to be a fun trip.
Speaker 1: But if you get an Oscar nomination or you just
Speaker 1: like smiling ear to ear as you're walking around in
Speaker 1: the snow, O, I know it was. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: quite something because you know, I could see that people
Speaker 1: knew when they were like coming to me in a
Speaker 1: very different way. And I'm just really, really, really grateful
Speaker 1: that the Academy um took a time to look at Sophia,
Speaker 1: because it's not a character that pops out immediately. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I think it even needs a second viewing of the
Speaker 1: film because it's she's not like in the surface, so
Speaker 1: so I'm really grateful that they did, you know, because
Speaker 1: she's silent because she hides things. So, um, I never
Speaker 1: thought it would happen. That's the best way to experience it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like if you have no idea that it's coming,
Speaker 1: and then you get to just shake your son and
Speaker 1: sure he wakes up and come monu, God, what's next
Speaker 1: for you after? After this Sundance movie, you get some
Speaker 1: things lined up. I'm just curious what's coming up? Well,
Speaker 1: I know you had to play you were going to
Speaker 1: be Yeah, I need to go back and do that.
Speaker 1: I've been traveling since a little, since the end of August,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna go through till the end and then
Speaker 1: I'm going back just to do that play because it's
Speaker 1: it's about I have a production company I have, I
Speaker 1: bought the rights of the play. I even translate it,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to go and do it and then
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh, I mean, it's been incredible. I
Speaker 1: now have agents here, so if I could work here
Speaker 1: that would make me crazy. Is there anything like, you know,
Speaker 1: something like this opened doors? I would think, is there, like,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do as an actress from
Speaker 1: here forward, Like, are there stones left unturned specifically that
Speaker 1: you really want to get involved with. I don't know
Speaker 1: just what kind of moviees you want to make here?
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's difficult to say, because I'm always open
Speaker 1: to see what comes, and I think that every project
Speaker 1: always has something It opens the world for you. That's
Speaker 1: what I love about my my my profession that each player,
Speaker 1: each movie, it opens a completely new world and you
Speaker 1: discover it there. So I'm not like, I'm not always
Speaker 1: saying like I want to only do this kind of
Speaker 1: characters or these kind of projects or work only in
Speaker 1: this No, because every experience is new and it makes
Speaker 1: me grow and it it it pulls my range. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that you say that in English my
Speaker 1: acting range. So I'm open, awesome, and that's the best
Speaker 1: way to be. And I want to be clear, it's
Speaker 1: not like you're like you just started acting and you've
Speaker 1: you've been working hard for a number of years and
Speaker 1: it's it's awesome to see you get this recognition and
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see what kind of doors have
Speaker 1: open for you here. I mean, I'm always my colleague, Janelle,
Speaker 1: We're always like she's gonna be a big star. Oh
Speaker 1: it was great, and she included me in that incredible
Speaker 1: list of actress to watch and forever will be grateful.
Speaker 1: That was the first news that was big, Like I
Speaker 1: was like what, you know what it just happened and
Speaker 1: from then till now and I'm just so grateful, so great.
Speaker 1: It's all because of us. We take the credit here.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Uh movie is called Roma. As
Speaker 1: I said, it's on Netflix now. You should check it
Speaker 1: out there. It's still in some theaters around the world.
Speaker 1: Check it out there. Just see it however you can,
Speaker 1: because again I think it's the best movie of the year.
Speaker 1: And Marina at the very I'm so glad that you
Speaker 1: were nominated and recognized for your work. It's fantastic performance.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I really enjoyed this conversation as well.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. Thank you.