Gael García Bernal said acting for the likes of Oscar winners Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón helped groom him for the director’s chair and praised cinema as “the only medium” that a…
.” Earlier this week, the festival handed an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award to Iñárritu, who directed Bernal in his breakout role in “Amores Perros.”
It was through Cuarón that Bernal also began to envision a different role for himself behind the camera. “Of course I always liked cinema, but I never thought of directing a film,” he said. “Through [Cuarón], I started to feel like, ‘Okay. You can build a dynamic. You can create everything [yourself].’”
It would be more than a decade before he directed his second feature, time he spent becoming a father and collaborating with the likes of Iñárritu, Cuarón, Pedro Almodóvar , Michel Gondry and Jim Jarmusch . Acting for such a range of directors deepened his understanding of the relationship between the two roles. “[Actors] are just like a bunch of Frankensteins that are put together,” he said. “It’s the director’s responsibility to make us look like geniuses.
He continued: “The ones that are carrying the message [of hope in the film]…are the little girls. Throughout history, we haven’t listened to them at all.”
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