Diego Luna, the Mexican actor who stars in Andor, the Star Wars universe series on Disney+ is our cover character. It is already more than 20 years of career since And Your Mother Too, Cuaron’s film from 2001. Today, in addition to being an actor, he is a director, producer and even the host of a talk show. So outside of Mexico he was unknown. We had already seen his co-star Gael García Bernal in another previous Mexican hit, love dogs, Gonzalez Inarritu. From then until now their names have been linked. In the interview, Diego tells that they were born a few months apart, while Gael’s father worked on a play in which Diego’s father did the set design and their mothers were in charge of the costumes. “I think that about sums it up,” he says.
The change is that before they were “Gael and Diego” and now they are “Diego and Gael”. Luna himself joked that when he went to dinner with the director of Andor and he told him about the paper, he was hoping that at some point he would ask for Gael’s phone number to offer it to him. In the end, the role of the tragic and tormented rebel went to Diego Luna and that has changed his life “Dramatically”, in his own words. Motherless since he was two years old, Diego grew up raised by his father, a well-known set designer. At six he was already doing theater, at 12, soap operas. At 16, rich and famous, he stopped studying and became emancipated. “I took it badly, very badly. Difficult years, I’m not going to say no. Between fame and that freedom as well as unbridled…”. At ICON, Diego Luna also talks about the present, the future or the writers’ strike in the US.
Also, Jonah Hauer-King, Prince Eric from the new version of The little Mermaid, a British boy from a good family, (he studied at Eton) who was going to be a theologian and now he is going to be a star. Also Holger Rune, the 20-year-old Danish tennis player who belongs to the Alcaraz generation. He beat Djokovic in Rome and reached the final, where he lost to Medvedev. He is also the image of Armani, but, above all, he is a very passionate guy with a point of bad character, which makes his matches very fun to watch. Also Carlos Cuevas, the protagonist of blackbirds, that after his international success with Smiley he believes that it is time to grow in front of the cameras. “I don’t want to be placed in one space because I consider myself more malleable,” she says.
Pablo Zamora signs an impressive photographic report with the Ballet de Marseille, a group that shows that a dance ‘show’ can be something political, furious and spectacular. Pablo portrays 18 of its explosive members and Tom C Avendaño interviews its directors. “There is too much to explore and express with the body. It is an organism and a soul that travel in time and space, which makes it something inherently political”, tells the collegiate management that has given the company the reputation of visionary.
There is much more content. We are talking about brutalism and the renewal of an ancient institution, the Ateneo de Madrid. Of artistic installations in the Museo del Prado. How the big luxury car brands, the latest one, Ferrari, have surrendered to the trend and now make four-door SUVs. Whether the shift from celluloid to digital cinema has made physical textures, from skin to fabric, less vivid.
All this on Saturday June 2 for free with EL PAÍS.
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2023-05-31 10:10:51
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