the end of love was one of the most appreciated and commented Argentine series of the last stretch of the year, not only for the stellar presence of Lali Espositobut because it posed realistic dilemmas for women in their thirties and because it had a solid supporting cast.
Within that cast that championed the pop star, he stood out Juliet Zapiolathe actress who played Laura – one of Tamara’s best friends, the protagonist – and who had been waiting for a role and a story like the Amazon Prime Video fiction for a long time.
“It opened the door to some things that maybe had been talked about before but hadn’t been represented in fiction, much less with this level of exposure,” he says.
“The series shows places like Mocha Celis, has a queer bowling alley as its meeting point and features women with their different sexualities in a constant chaotic, contradictory and not at all heroic quest. This makes them realistic and not fictionalized, which is generally not the place that women have in fiction,” reflects Julieta.
Zapiola shines in the most mainstream appearance of his short performing career. And it’s likely that part of that outcome has to do with identifying with the character of him and with the end of love generally.
“I identify with Laura in her sexual orientation. What interested me about her was her particular state in her binding. The series talks about this, about the different intrinsic ways of bonding that the characters have and about the clashes that occur while searching through one’s desire”, says Julieta clarion.
Like the Tamara Tenenbaum novel on which it is based, the ten-episode series seeks to break with many mandates related to love and family.
“It seems to me that it was a necessary time to put these issues on paper, as the idealized image of romantic love that we thirty-somethings had grown up with had been unsettling for some time. And there were new ways of relating and loving without being verbalized or contextualized in our relationships and what we were experiencing,” says Julieta.
The actress and director who wanted to star in Boca
Julieta is 30 years old and grew up in a family where creativity and playful acting have always been encouraged. Today her sister is a director, her brother is a film musician and her cousin is a cinematographer. In addition to acting, she directs and produces castings.
“If I don’t act, that’s my job. He has a lot to learn from directing. It’s usually an embarrassing and scary moment that all of us actors have to go through. Thanks to him I was able to see actors I admire playing scenes,” she confesses.
Despite this present linked to the dramatic arts, Julieta had a different dream as a girl: to play football at Boca, the club of her loves.
“All my childhood I wanted to play for Boca. I was a football fan, I spent all my time playing with my team mates, I wasn’t interested in other matches and I went to the Bombonera every Sunday. At that time it was not very common for girls to go to train in football teams. Then my father offered to take me to an acting class. But I didn’t want to until my twenties,” he says.
It happened ten years ago. At that time Zapiola decided to abandon Psychology and start studying with the acting teacher Nora Moseinco, breeding ground for local film and television characters such as Martin PiroyanskyInés Efron and Julieta Zylberberg.
“When I started doing theater I realized that no one would call me to act if I didn’t manage my own stuff and create content to show. Nora has it, when you improvise you find characters you like to play. With my first year classmates, who are now my best friends, we started writing a web series the elephant girl, and we presented it at the Young Art Biennial in 2015 to finance it. The series was selected and today it can be seen on YouTube,” he recalls.
Her first short film and the need for more LGBTQ+ looks
After that milestone, Julieta acted in several short films and sketches by Martín Piroyansky, her theater school friend. But there had already been a parallel interest in devising screenplays and directing them.
And a couple of years ago he wrote Schwaneckher first short film screened at BAFICI 2019, about a daughter who investigates how her parents met and discovers what happened in a hair recovery company.
In 2021 Julieta could be seen in implosion, Javier Van der Couter’s film about the 2004 Carmen de Patagones massacre, which can still be seen on Flow. When Erica Halvorsen, writer and showrunner of the end of lovesaw his work in implosionhe summoned her to cast for the series.
“I think you always have to try to make sure that the character doesn’t repeat itself, but see how to appropriate it and what particularity you or the character can give, beyond what is written in the scenes”, he advises with the experience of making fusions. .
“I think you have to break the format of what is written a little to make it your own, to give it ease and originality. It’s always trial and error, but for me, the good student, especially in casting cases, so much is not useful,” he adds.
In that back and forth between acting, directing, screenplay and casting, Zapiola says what he would like most is to direct again. “I think there is nothing more satisfying and at the same time more difficult than filming your own project”, he justifies himself.
“It also seems to me very important that LGBT people tell our stories with our perspectives to give them truth and not fall into the stereotypes that represent our communities,” adds Julieta, whose latest acting job was in the series the mufaswhich will debut in 2023 on Star+.
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Source: Clarin
