On one side, Álvaro Cervantes (Barcelona, 35 years old), twice a Goya candidate and with two films in the official section of the Malaga Festival. On the other, Ángela Cervantes (Barcelona, 32 years old), an actress twice a Goya candidate and with two films in the official section of the Malaga Festival. “We were thinking before, and we had never happened to coincide with such an event,” he explains. She, much quieter, “she will confess her shyness,” smiles. His older brother finishes with a joke: “We have already told our parents, that they are here, that they do not malacose. It is very difficult to be in a movie in a great contest. As if we agree on top. And with four films. ”
When they were small, on the floor of the Cervantes, in the Barcelona neighborhood of Poblenou, the two kids starred in the shows Christmas that his father recorded with a Handycam. “In many houses was that video camera that you used with one hand. And he took it out and we grew up. I remember that I tried to lead Angela, as older brother, and she passed, she went to her ball. And then, as we were a small family, we went to a friend’s house, with a large family, and we repeated the show”, Remember Álvaro. He from there was born his passion, although there are more clues. His father, computer merchant, said he would have liked to be an actor. “That says, but we suspect that it is not so, that he has seen us enjoy now and that the spark has jumped … he said that when he retired he would sign up for theater, and he has not done so,” he adds. And his sister adds another nuance: “Our mother has an artistic vein, which was seen when she worked in the florist, and draws very well. On the other hand, both of them like the ritual of going to the cinema, and now they go to the original subtitled session. ”
For years, Angela (which is named for Ángela Molina), although she did theater at school, did not verbalize her intention to be an actress. “He had a vocation and a clear reference that showed that he could live from that profession. But it was hard for me to take the step because I didn’t want to sound imitation. ” Meanwhile, Álvaro had already debuted in the series Summer grandmother (2005), had achieved his first candidacy for Goya with The game of hanged, and participated in Three meters above the sky (2010) y I want you (2012), Bobbler phenomena born from Federico Moccia’s literature. He had even participated, directed by Joe Wright, in Hanna (2012). He has never stopped working, well in cinema in 1898, the last of the Philippines; Crazy for her; The Blood Tree, Adú (second candidacy for Goya) or 42 seconds; Good on television, with Carlos, Emperor King; The area o Sun Costa Brigade. Angela formed, like Álvaro, with Fernando Legs (“And that is why,” he says, “in both the same tastes, a common language”), before throwing themselves to a daily series of TV3, may resonate, As if it were yesterday. Debuted in the cinema with a candidacy for Goya in Chavalas, And then they arrived The maternal (second nomination) and Valencian.
In Malaga, Angela presents What remains of you, From Gala Gracia, the story of two sisters: one stayed in the town, the other went to New York to be a pianist, and now he returns for the death of the father; and To the anger, The film that should provide her third appearance in the Goya: her character is an actress who, after being raped at an New Year’s Eve party, seeks the help of her brother, who explodes with a rage that she, on the other hand, channels through the theater, where Medea plays. Interestingly, both films are born from vital experiences of their directors. “A Gemma (Blasco, responsible for To anger) I know her from the institute, and since I started the movie I have accompanied her in the process. Both films are raw operas and there is a responsibility and an illusion to give the best for debutants, ”explains the actress. The filming of To anger He chained with the play JAURIA, by Jordi Casanovas, based on the rape committed in the Sanfermines by La Manada, which Angela has starred in the second assembly. His brother explains: “I saw her several times, and I understand the difficulty she entailed. Technically it was like throwing each function into the abyss. And daily wear. ” Although from her work, she chooses her role in The maternal, “Because he is very far from Angela.” “I stopped seeing her, I believed it as a mother,” he adds.
From Álvaro, Ángela chooses just one of her two films in Malaga, Sorda (“It excites me a lot”), which appeared in the last Berlinale, and in which Cervantes embodies the “listener” boyfriend, underlines the actor, of a deaf girl, a first -time mother. “It has allowed me to work with a lot of time and a lot of care, and I would like to enjoy those privileges more times.” The two put another common detail with their four films in Malaga: “We feel grateful for being invited to those worlds.” And next to Sorda, From Eva Libertad, he embodies another juicy secondary in Breakfast with me From Iván Morales. “If the first is the great love story, Breakfast with me It is a great story of heartbreak, although, careful, nothing toxic, but pure and more honest. ”
Both drag a reputation of meticulous in their work. They have never coincided on the screen, and in theater once and by chance, when he made a substitution, and did not even share scene. Álvaro has escaped from the filming of Balandrau. Angela has now struggled voluntarily. They comment that they are constantly spoken, that one knows about the scripts of the other and vice versa. “It is a way of feeling accompanied in processes that are sometimes very lonely,” they explain. Álvaro points out: “We have both traveled with consciousness through those stops. They are also necessary to live, so that things happen to you, reconcile with your life and fill you a bit … “. Angela finishes: “… the library of emotions.”
It is in the talk that continues to that reflection when the interconnection is palpated, although the actress points out that many people are not aware that they are brothers. You may because they have different eyes. “And that I had a moment of doubts in my beginnings to repeat the last name, but I like Cervantes,” she laughs. Finished the talk, they are going to prepare for the premiere of gala de Sorda. Name of the Malaga Theater where this projection and nerve center of the Malaga Festival was held? Cervantes.