Comedy is a genre that is in high demand on the screens, but difficult to achieve. “Not all of us laugh at the same things, therefore, doing comedy is super challenging, especially when you have to cross borders,” said Chilean actress Paz Bascuñán, who is part of the cast of Maria, I’m dying!a film by Tiki Group from Chile and BH5 Studios from Mexico, which recently premiered in Mexican movie theaters.
“Suffering is something quite universal while laughter is more particular. I think the fun is that the audience can identify with the characters. In the case of Maria, I’m dying!with characters who are trying to get out of a situation full of obstacles, which makes them nervous and, at the same time, laughs,” added the actress.
Bascuñán has dedicated himself almost exclusively to comedy. Without filter, I’m not crazy, Sweet family, SOS Moms, Men’s things, Spoiled, You drive me crazy, Bitch lifeare just some of the many comedies in which he has worked. “It makes me feel good to make others laugh. I feel that today life is complex, adverse, and there are many reasons to feel anguish and worry. So, I like to generate content that gets us out of there and makes us feel better. I watch a lot of comedies, they do me good.”
HEALING STORY
Maria, I’m dying! revolves around a hypochondriac (Ricardo Fastlicht) and his wife (Natalia Téllez), who is willing to do anything to heal her love. Bascuñán plays Iris, a very particular psychologist who helps her patients experience their traumas.
“She is a psychologist who is a bit risky and radical in her therapy, and invites her patients to something crazy to heal the character’s hypochondria. Comic situations are then generated that, at the same time, are desperate,” said the actress, who resorted to her own experience to build the character. “I have taken the most alternative therapies there are. “I am very curious and a believer in everything and I put a lot of use into that experience.”
He dramedy addresses a mental health issue such as hypochondria. “It is a misunderstood pathology. People don’t understand it, and the hypochondriac is suffering from something that is real to him even though it is not real to the rest. It is a film about healing that also talks about how the caregiver can deal with it,” said Bascuñán.
THE MYSTIC OF THE MOVIE THEATER
Maria, I’m dying! is a Chilean-Mexican co-production filmed in Santiago de Chile, directed by Gabriela Sobarzo, the only comedy director that Chile has at the moment, written by the Brazilian Mirella Granucci and the Chileans Anibal Herrera and Óscar Malinkovich, and with a mostly Mexican cast.
“Mexican actors are very professional, rigorous in their work and studious. That is appreciated,” said Bascuñán, who had already shared a set with cast mexican in Sweet family, you drive me crazy y Men’s things.
The actress also highlighted the Mexican public and celebrated the premiere of this film in the cinema, since her latest works were exhibited on television platforms. streaming. “Finding yourself in the movie theater again is a comforting experience that makes you feel a lot of gratitude and joy. That moment of encounter with laughter, applause and the mystique of being in the room with others is very beautiful. There is also vertigo, because the results are in the room by feeling if there is laughter, if there is applause, if there are sighs, if there is silence or if there was laughter in this or that joke” concluded Bascuñán.
