00:00It's very beautiful, very inspiring. When I was 20 or 21, I lived here for three months, then came
00:10Just as I was leaving, he arrived and really being here, living here these months, studying acting, working...
00:21what you could,
00:24Being lost in the streets and seeing mostly off-Broadway theater, that's what inspired us to write a
00:31Musical, go to Madrid, take what we had learned and make something with our own hands, something small, write an underground musical
00:39And that was the call.
00:41At what point did they know they had to tell the story of the black ball?
00:45Well, when we read The Dark Stone, the play by Alberto Conejero, we had seen it on stage again,
00:52Suddenly we reconnected with her by reading her and Javi told me, Javi said, I just read another one
00:58Once you saw The Dark Stone and here's the movie.
01:01How exactly did you find the balance between such a personal cinematic proposal and a story capable of connecting with different people?
01:09generations and different cultures?
01:10He was always trying to portray what moved us; I think you should never approach a film without thinking.
01:19or to a series or a script thinking I'm going to change the world, I'm going to do justice,
01:27I think it's about finding what hurts you, what excites you, thinking about Sebastian
01:33abandoning his village, abandoning his mother,
01:35Thinking of Sebastian meeting Rafael, thinking of Rafael whom he can't get out of his head before he dies,
01:41who has to fulfill the promise he made to Lorca,
01:45Thinking about Alberto, his relationship with his mother, thinking about Carlos's rejection, all of that is what makes us think about Alberto, his relationship with his mother, Carlos's rejection, and so on.
01:51He was moving forward to build a film that would later resonate with the world.
01:55If you had to describe the film with one emotion, what would it be and why?
02:03Is an emotion the will to live? Yes, isn't it? That would work. I think it's a film about how important it is.
02:14You want to devour life, right?
02:17Like feeling, the privilege of being alive.
02:24It makes me very sad every time I see the movie because it really makes me think about all those things.
02:36unfinished lives,
02:37all those unfinished loves, all those stories that could not be.
02:41What does it feel like to represent Spain at the Oscars? And I hope they win, I know they will.
02:48If they win, who are they going to dedicate it to?
02:50No, no, no, that's not something we talk about, but I feel incredibly proud of Spain, that's what I feel, a tremendous gratitude to
02:59Thank you to the Academy for giving us the opportunity
03:01to represent Spanish cinema in such a good year, so that's it, we're working hard.
03:11Thank you.
03:11Thank you.
