One should ask oneself where Lali Espósito (31) finds the time to carry out all the projects she has to face. At the height of his musical career, and between the recordings of the two seasons of The Argentine voicefound space to turn the end of lovethe new Argentine series on Amazon Prime Video that opens this Friday 4 November on the platform.
With this protagonist the pop star returns in a nationally produced fiction after the first streaming with the Spaniards sky red (Netflix). In this case, moreover, she debuts in another role: is executive producer with Erika Halvorsen (love after love) Y Tamara Tenenbaumauthor of the homonymous book that inspired the story.
“The first approach was Tamara’s book. Erika (Halvorsen), the showrunner and so beloved screenwriter, she called me four years ago and asked me if I’d read it. ‘Well, read it and we’ll talk about it, because something has to be done with this’“, Reveals about the seed of this ten-episode feminist drama.
Lali she is energetic and talkative as usualalready recovered from the flu that forced her to cancel two of her fashion shows Discipline of the tourand despite the fact that several hours have already passed giving interviews to media around the world in a Park Hyatt hotel lounge.
Talk about the show, her maturity as an actress and how she feels as a reference for the new generations in the networks (has more than 11 million followers on Instagram).
Do you feel pressure for that role?
-No, because I don’t plan from that place. If I felt that I had to respect some kind of way of expressing myself outward it would be in the oven. It would all be a negative and I would feel the pressure.
-And you don’t feel it.
-No, because I always take care to say what I say and the way in which I have to express it They are mine, they are not the ones to have. I think no one should think like me. Now, if you feel questioned or empathize with what I say runs on behalf of those who decide to follow you, accompany you, be your fan, follow your artistic path or other. But there is no pressure on my part that because I represent this, I must be this.
“In fact, I always say that ‘Don’t give me so much ball because I change, I evolve, I meet again, I test myself’. I don’t take everything I say. I am truly taking charge of my fluctuating and changing life. And intense. I had a very busy life this continually leads me to the exercise of thinking that if I’m going to say something, that’s what I feel. Then, whether it’s correct or not, it’s up to the listener, “she clarifies.
Lali and the dilemmas of thirty-year-olds
Like the book, the plot of the end of love -a co-production by Argentina’s K&S with Metro Goldwyn Mayer- reflects contemporary existential dilemmas that a thirty-year-old living in Buenos Aires can haveand is based on the life experiences of the author, Tamara Tenenbaum.
Lali embodies the philosopher, writer and lecturer of the UBA who, having come to terms with his own Orthodox Jewish education, she leaves her boyfriend to rebel against the traditional concept of a couple.
Since that breakup, with her two best friends, played by Vera Spinetta and Julieta Gimenez Zapiola– like the tracks, enter “Tam”. a path of sexual exploration and emotional break with many mandates.
-How do you identify with Tamara?
-One thousand. But not out of identification with Tamara as a character, because we did background different, different lives. We are very different. But There is something that Tamara says that challenges me yes or yes, both as an actress, as a spectator and as a woman. What if I’m 30 and you were a of the Millennium With this in need of a quest to be as happy as possible, you ask yourself these questions: ‘Hey, what’s up with romantic love and monogamy? Am I happy in this context, in these things that oppress me? I chose this religion, am I what I want? ‘
– Do you ask yourself those questions?
-Yup. Maybe we are the generation that started asking these questions. All those awkward but necessary questions we ask ourselves are in this series. They are the protagonists of this series. then inevitably I generate empathy with what has been said.
-Do you feel you are in an ideal time to do it?
-I turned 31 a week ago, do you know how I am? “What is life? Why?”. obvious, They are there, embracing the conflict. But, well, that’s why it’s not that casual, it’s more casual to be a part of this piece. There is no doubt that there is something in my personal life and in my artistic self that feels crossed and challenged by what we are about to show.
Singer and actress Lali
Trained in the Cris Morena outbreak (Casi Angeles, Florida Y Chiquititas), Lali prioritized her career as a singer for a while. But she always goes back to her origins as an actress.
Are you more selective as an actress? More mature when it comes to saying no?
-I would say … It seems like you think a thousand, but I feel like I’ve always been. If we look a little bit at the last few years, even if I haven’t acted much, the things I have acted in are things I believed in. Afterwards, it’s hyper subjective whether you like it or not. But a series like it sky red, which in addition to giving me the opportunity to internationalize myself and my work, is a series that was about what they were talking about and it seemed interesting to me how they wanted to deal with it. And I got on that boat.
“The same with this series, I was interested as an actress and as a producer to generate this type of content. If you go back, I made certain films that at the time had a very specific reason in my life and for the outside world. I think I’m selective in acting. I think when I act it has to be something that is really worth my time and energy. “
-Does it also have something to do with the priority of your music career?
-And this the musical journey takes you much longer. Because there you are one hundred (percent). It’s your imprint, it’s your lyrics, it’s your creative time in the studio, it’s your time to defend that album for the outside world, it’s your physical time to put your body in a show. It’s your whole life, it’s a lot of work. When you do something like this too, and even more so if he approaches you from other things besides just acting, because I’ve been involved 24/7 in the end of love. I like to give the fictional piece that I will do the time it deserves. And then, yes, continue with my daily routine, which is more musical if you like.
Lali as producer of the series
“I never got into what Tamara wrote, so me I blinked hard”Says Lali about what attracted her to the series. And she reveals that she has been in the project since the beginning.
“It was like a very simple construction. They started working on turning it into a fiction, dividing it into chapters, to see what they would tell. Of all Tamara’s thoughts, it was necessary to think about what and how to translate it into a fiction. It was a very interesting creative process where I read, gave my grades, I was present in that process of them as writers, ”she adds.
Lily admits it “selling” the idea to platforms was not an easy task. “You we launched the series to many platforms, to many people. And in the beginning people considered it very niche. “A story of a feminist philosopher?” ‘Niche, something small’, they told us. Nobody imagined that we could talk about these problems, about life, about the end of romantic love, about everything this series aims to talk about. nobody in the world mainstream he imagined it a priori, ”he says.
“We, as consumers of fiction, might look at series like Girls or Lots of fleasbut there was nothing in Spanish. And what series tell us about the conflicts of the 1930s? Average of none. So we worked hard to generate this series with great pride, because we put something on the table that wasn’t put this way, at the level of feminist fiction, on a platform like this, ”she adds.
Lali as a pilot?
After two consecutive seasons as a jury of The Argentine voiceTelefe’s popular singing reality show, Lali confesses that the channel has proposed to drive what she wants. “They love me, I love them. And they always ask me what I want to do. ‘What format do you want?’. The famous dad with money“, He says.
And he clarifies: “But I choose projects based on how I feel at that moment. Y the projections of this moment are not even farting with that. I don’t consider myself a pilot, I don’t even care to be one. “
-No?
Not at this point in my life. Tomorrow I will tell you: ‘I want to drive’ And I do. It doesn’t happen to me. I feel I still have a lot to do in the world of fiction, in the world of music. Other waters for now.
Source: Clarin
