Online Chat with Diego Luna & Gael García Bernal
Madrid 2002

Mexico has Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, two good-looking and talented actors that are already giving a lot, so to speak. Now they lead Y tu mamá también.

Gael/Diego:  How’s it going? How’s the whole gang?

G/D:  We’re very happy to connect with you

Rashomon:  Good afternoon Gael and Diego, I suppose it is a great challenge working next to an actress as versatile, multipurposed and chameleon-like as Maribel Verdú? Thanks.

G/D : DDDDD

G/D:  especially multipurposed, yes

G/D:  a multipurpose actress

G/D:  that serves everything, that’s for certain

G/D:  she was very entertaining. we had a good time with her recently

G/D:  and up to now we miss her because we almost never see her

G/D:  if we have the opportunity, we go see her in the theater

Misspecas:  I have seen the trailer of your movie, and only find two words to define the five minutes that I have seen: wild, explosive. Do you agree?

G/D:  as the premature ejaculation. You missed filthy

Modera2:  what do you prefer Gael, cinema or theatre? A big kiss

G/D:  another big kiss

G/D:  why choose, if there are two?

Modera2:  what was the first thing that crossed your mind when were rewarded in the Venice Festival? Thank you very much, I wish you the best in the world.

Diego:  I had already come to Mexico

G/D:  the first thing that happened to me was that I could not stop taking in the emotion

G/D:  and drinking too

G/D:  the only thing that hurt me was to have to board Iberia for another thirteen hours

G/D:  we arrived with sausage face

Gael:  I started trembling and I spoke to my mom...

G/D :  the truth is that I have no words to describe that moment

Loopy20:  do you think that the doors are closed to you in cinema for the fact of being Latin?   

G/D:  rather the custom doors of all airports

G/D:  but once in the country, you are already from another place

Gael:  on the contrary, I believe that the most interesting proposals come from Spanish speaking countries now.

G/D:  and besides the people act and sing already, also, there is always the opportunity

G/D:  the thing that we will never do...

Fickytron:  Gael, you are going to release two movies almost right away in Spain: Y tu mamá también and Vidas Privadas (Private Lives). Do you think the hour has come to take the leap and take part in some movie with Spanish production?

Gael:  I already took part in a Spanish production

Gael:  Sin noticias de Dios (Without God's News) that is having the premiere

G/D:  but the opportunities are always open

Modera2:  I really love you in Amores Perros. Have you thought of spending time in Spain? (tell me yes) yuyuma Gijón

Gael:  Of course. Yuyuma, all for you

Modera2:  Apart from the award received for Y tu mamá también, what other reason do you give me to see the movie.

Gael:  that Diego is naked

Diego:  and Gael too

Gael:  if they want to see his member… of a slightly usual size

G/D:  see it in the movie

G/D:  choose the one that has the biggest screen

Gael:  next question, because Diego is tongue tied in a Bermuda Triangle response

Modera2:  what movie would you never do? juli

Diego:  American Pie

Gael:  partly because they would never call him

Diego:  Gael one, Diego zero!

Misspecas:  imagine that I only had the money for just one movie ticket, give me a reason to go see your film and not Moulin Rouge (and not that you’re better than Ewan McGregor, because I already know that).

G/D:  Thanks very much

G/D:  we saw Moulin Rouge on a flight

G/D:  we slept very well

Modera2:  Spanish or Mexican films? laura

G/D:  Spanish films

G/D:  which encompasses the two and all of Latin America

Modera2:  what do you think about the 'war against the terrorism'? seve

G/D:  Ohhhhhh!!!!

Diego:  the war on terrorism is equally absurd as terrorism

Gael:  the fact is that they are words that are contradicted

G/D:  it is like "military intelligence"

Rashomon:  In your opinion, what mark did Luis Buñuel leave in the Mexican cinema? Thanks.

G/D:  till not long ago, he probably was the only point of reference for Mexican cinema in the world

G/D:  but also, being a foreigner, he was the best one that caught the essence of Mexico, especially in The Forgotten Ones

G/D:  and he prepared Ripstein

Rashomon:  You know the saying "Tell me what you presume and I will tell you what you lack”? It is only a curiosity. Thanks.

G/D:  that's why we said that you should see it on a cinema screen

Modera2:  the next thing is to work with Almodóvar? cecilia

G/D:no  , the next thing, next, no…

G/D:  unless he wants

Misspecas:  with what Spanish director would you like to work? Have you seen The Others?

Diego:  since I have not worked with any, I have a long list… (he is looking for it)

Diego:  here, I have 20.  they can see them

Diego:  Alex of Iglesia

Gael:  I have one especially, that I am a fan

G/D:  anus,

G/D:  … excuse me, Tano

G/D:  or, Agustín Díaz Yanes

Diego:  if we leave these two, it is going to seem that I only want to work with them

Diego:but indeed there are 20

Mdera2:  Gael, have they given you offers to work in Hollywood? elizabeth

Gael:  yes

Diego:  yes, as a bartender

Gael:  yes, some, but it is difficult to appear as the prototype they offer…

G/D:  it is the prototype of the “good latino”

G/D:  in truth, what drag it gives, we are not for that

Diego:  Chayanne and Ricky Martin already do it very well

Loopy20:  would you be capable of anything to obtain a role ¿? you know... a big kiss.

G/D:  to obtain a role, no

Diego:  to Gael they already touched an intimate part of his past

Gael:  they have opened an old wound

mIKEpORTN:  how do you feel on having been next to maribel verdú?

G/D:  uhhhhh

G/D:  sweaty

G/D:  horny

G/D:  just like at home

Loopy20:  and for love?

G/D:  ahhh, everything!!!

Dalhia:  why don’t boys as handsome as you work as models?

GaelDiego :DDD  <smiles>

G/D:  you can tell they have not seen us...

G/D:  the camera does miracles

Misspecas:  you have convinced me and I will go to see the movie. if I do not like it, will you return my  money and invite me to a coffee
Diego:  and if you do like it?  what are you going to do?

Henry:  what are your favorite movies and actors?

Gael:  The Bicycle Thief

G/D:  Mastroianni

Diego:  The Big Lebowski

G/D:  there are a lot… Bardem [Javier]

Gael:  Of course, Bardem!!!

Loopy20:  since you are famous, has any girl held you back?

G/D:  before too

Modera2:  if you were a planet, which would you be. celeste30

G/D:  Venus. :DDD

G/D      Pluto, minus the L

Sexorsist:  in this new movie we see that the aesthetics of the character so much in Amores Perros. Probably because there is some of your personal style that influences it? (a kiss for you, handsome!)

Gael:  a lot of the clothes are mine

Gael:  but rather you have to see the movie, because in Amores Perros it’s baggier

Gael:  in this one it is all more matching

Diego:  you are right, he is not a very all-purpose actor

Isolee:  what do you feel when you see yourselves naked before a mirror? More,  a little? Sonia

Diego:  when I see Gael, nothing

Gael:  other people’s pain

Isolee:  guys, what three things do you know how to do well? a little, Sonia

Gael:  quesadillas

G/D:  sleep

Diego:  that is Gael

Gael:  bother Diego

Diego:  as they will see, he is very childish

Diego:  and my three “things”… (he blushes)

Diego:  ….

Modera2:  Gael, how were the tapas of San Sebastian? nataliapinuel

Gael:  very good, fucking cool

Modera2:  what award is the one that more you would like to gain? why? juan

G/D:  World Cup

G/D:  but for performance, I believe that they already gave us the most important we could win

G/D:  The Mastroianni

G/D:  now they must give us one for men, not for young actors

Ukkyo:  do you like literature? What do you read. A kiss, Diego.  Andrea

Gael:  yes, we like it

Diego:  I just read "The Closed Room" by Paul Auster

Gael:  I am reading "The History of the Eye" by George Bataille

Modera2:  what is your favorite musical group? aurora

G/D:  to mention one quickly: the Beatles, that sums everything up

G/D:  but there are many

Diego:  to say one would be very unjust

Modera2:  do you use the Internet often? Do you believe in the love online? Coriolan

Diego:  yes I use the Internet often…  but  I prefer fall in love in person

Misspecas:  with whom would you drink a coffee if they liked your movie: Penélope Cruz, Pilar López de Ayala o misspecas?

Diego:  why to drink coffee?

Gael:  Pilar, Pilar, ra, ra, ra!!!!!

Diego:  while I entertain Penélope

G/D:  Misspecas, you can join the one that you want

Modera2:  do you like the Spanish meal?

G/D:  the Basque one

Diego:  today I ate up a few small squid and I am still savoring the ink

Gael:  are you a writer, Diego?

Knightvir para:  Gael, when carry out the scenes, as in the movie Y tu mamá también, do you feel something, or being in cinema you do not feel the same as in private… do you not get briefly excited on having been naked like the girl who was in the movie?

Gael:  of course not, it is acting

Diego:  what happens later is pure professionalism

Loopy20:  what has been the worst and best moment of your life? Kisses Rebeca.

Diego:  how hard to sum up your life in a good an bad moment

G/D:  thankfully there have been more the good ones than the bad ones, in my case

G/D:  but these are personal things. no?

Tuarach:  Hi, I’m tuarach. A Kiss. I wanted to give congratulations to Gael for Amores Perros. Finally Latin America movies in big cinemas. And to both of you for Y tu mamá también, that looks good.  A big kiss.

G/D:  Thank you, Tuarach

G/D:  more big kisses… the size of Madrid and the metropolitan area

Sexorsist:  Gael, the accent with which you speak in Amores Perros is your personal or did they make you accentuate it in order that it stayed more Mexican? (dude, duuude, fucking ca@#!!)

Gael:  the accent is Chilango

G/D:  that is Mexico City

Gael:  that is the one that Diego has

G/D:  and the truth is I don’t speak this way for nothing

Modera2:  many men write their epitaphs when they are young, what would you like remembered in yours?

G/D:  that I spent it very well

Gael:  ay,  how nice your eyes are, with this sky, a pity that there is no river (referring to another, clearly, not to me)

Diego:  do you write Maná lyrics, Gael?

Gael:  you have something personal against Maná?

Knightvir:  at present they are where in Mexico, or in what part are they? I am in Chihuahua… working.  And another thing, if there is not a place to ask one for his autographed photo

G/D:  greetings Chihuahua

G/D:  we are in Madrid and we have no photos

G/D:  Ugggg

Shivaa:  what projects do you have?

Diego:  probably to film something in Mexico

G/D:  at the end of year with Benjamín Cann

G/D:  and I desire much to work out of Mexico

G/D:  I hope soon

G/D:  in addition to promoting the movie for other places

Diego:  also to go away to release four movies, though they say that one was not looked so well on

Diego:  Carambola, Ciudades oscuras, Vampiros and Frida

G/D:  and in my free moments, I visit God children

G/D:  and I apply injections

Gael:  to form a salsa band

G/D:  to begin a movie in Mexico, in November, with Carlos Carrera

G/D:  to do a work of theater in January, in London

Sexorsist:  Gael, what do you like about the character you play in Amores Perros? (you were abundantly handsome and half bald!) Another Kiss.

Gael:  I liked that he was very untimely in a loving way

Gael:  that he was very strong, very complex

Gael:  an abundant, very sincere way of living through life

Shivaa:  I only wanted to give them a greeting from Mexico and congratulations for such good work in the movie

Diego:  a kiss to you, Shiva

G/D:  since you are there

Gael:  eat a torta (sandwich) to my health

Diego:  and go see my work of theater at the Helénico

Diego:  next week I am there

Gael:  later, later, opportunist

Diego:  it is necessary take advantage

Knightvir:  who was the voice of the person narrating the movie Y tu mamá también?

G/D:  Daniel Giménez Cacho… whom they have seen in Celos (Jealousy), Sin vergüenza (Without shame), etc.

Loopy20:  this love that wants to be, perhaps will it be soon?

G/D:  Uggggg!!!!!

Diego:  be careful, Maná are going to hire you

Gael:  cheers… what beautiful words

G/D:  thank you very much for connecting with us

G/D:  the movie has the premiere in all of Spain on Thursday, October 11

Gael:  what a marvel that we are chatting together

G/D:  I believe Julio Verne would not have foreseen it

G/D:  the truth is that I am settled enough

Diego:  in the movie one sees him more free

G/D:  how nice to be able to teach them and that it is released in all places

Gael:  kisses, kisses and more kisses

G/D:  Chao!!!

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