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Nominated at the Goya Awards as best new actress, the young woman has signed for Netflix and will participate in ‘Parallel Mothers’, the next film by the La Mancha director.
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The name of Milena Smit it sounds louder and louder. With her role as Mila in the movie ‘You will not kill’, where she worked under the direction of David Victori and the production of Julio Fernandez and that premiered with great success at the last Sitges Festival last October, the young woman, At just 24 years old, he made the leap to the big screen, sharing a shot with Mario Casas.
The ‘thriller’ has been one of the most watched in 2020 and has earned the interpreter a Goya nomination in the category of best new actress.“I have broken a thousand times rolling. It has been very hard but at the same time very satisfying because it has been a catharsis. A complete trip to put bandages on the wounds that you have had, ”explained the young woman, who was born in Elche (Alicante) in an interview for ‘Barnaphotopress’. After participating in several music videos and taking her first steps as a performer in short films Like ‘Innermost’, ‘Chimichanga’, ‘Diagonales’ and ‘Adentro’, at the age of 18 she discovered that her thing was to be in front of the cameras and in a short time she has become the actress that everyone talks about, but her discoverer, without a doubt, has been the director Catalan David Victori.
“Mila’s character on the script was quite difficult to find. A woman who causes fascination, who attracts you and you fear her at the same time. We found Milena on Instagram and she was not an actress, she worked in a hotel as a receptionist ”, revealed Victori in the past Sitges Festival.
In ‘You will not kill’, Smit plays Mila, the young woman who crosses Dani’s life (Mario Casas) to turn it into a real nightmare. Shortly before embarking on a trip around the world, to overcome the death of his father, Dani attends a farewell party, where he meets Mila. She immediately suggests that he go home to continue the night. But not like the innocent Dani had imagined. Mila has other plans for him. Plans that will lead you to consider a series of things that would never have crossed your mind.
Trained at the prestigious school of interpretation of Cristina Rota and well advised by Bernard Hiller, the media ‘coach’ of Hollywood stars, the young woman with a German father, has become a promise of cinema.
In the Almodóvar universe
This week, Pedro Almodovar announced the cast of his new film, ” Parallel Mothers’, in which Milena Smit figure next to Penelope Cruz Y Aitana Sánchez-Gijón.
The director from La Mancha explained that he returns “to the female universe, to motherhood, to the family. He spoke of the importance of ancestors and descendants ”. Next to Smit, Cruz Y Sánchez-Gijón they also stand out Rossy de Palma Y Juliet Serrano, in addition to Israel Elejalde.
“This was my big secret,” he wrote Smit on his Instagram account as soon as the big news was known.
In fact, the debut of Smit It also didn’t go unnoticed by Netflix. The platform signed her for the series ‘Alma’, which has already started filming in Asturias and is starring Mireia Oriol (‘Las del hockey) and created by Sergio S. Sanchez, Screenwriter of films such as ‘El orfanato’ and ‘Palmeras en la Nieve’, who will also act as director of the film together with Kike Maillo.
As if that were not enough, the twenty-year-old has not stopped succeeding in the world of fashion. Do not forget that Smit She has boards in the art of posing, because with only 15 years she signed up for a modeling agency in Murcia and starred in numerous photo sessions and paraded on the different catwalks of our country. Today, firms of the stature of Gucci, JW Anderson and Paco Rabanne are raffling her to pose with their designs.
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