“Did we do it right?” Tomás Kirzner asks with the camera off. But he’s not talking about his performance inside unknown landthe new original Disney + horror and suspense series, produced in Latin America and with premiere on September 8th.
He says this through the interviews that, together with his colleagues in this adventure, Pedro Maurizi, Mora Fisz and Thomas Lepera, have just started after 10 am on a Thursday, in a hotel in Buenos Aires.
With low lights and props horrifying (left, the same that was used during the 6 months of filming in 2021). a junket with an apocalyptic atmosphere prepares the ground for the reunion. “It’s a terrifying fantasy,” agrees the centennial litter on the 8 episode story, inspired by urban myths and legendswho reunited with several former set and “life” mates.
“We did the radio with Thomas when we were younger”, comments “Toto”, who in the fiction directed by Sebastián Pivotto, is the antagonist of Eric (“Pepo” Maurizi), alma mater of a story whose epicenter is a park full of mysterious disappearances.
Starting from that there is the second
The beginning is already encouraging: there will be a second season. And it’s not a spoiler, he announces it to Clarione the leading quartet, with the same euphoria that calls them back the premiere of the platform’s first teen horror project.
“We are drooling. We have already registered the second and it will be released in 2023. It is news that was not foreseen “, they explain about the launch that coincides with Disney + Day, a world day that includes experiences for subscribers, as well as new titles.
“It was a constant journey through childhood, to get in touch with those fears of the past. I particularly hate the horror genre for what it generates in me”Says Kirzner, with only two hours of sleep and an anxiety that keeps him awake.
-What generates you?
-It makes me angry, because I don’t like being scared. It is not a genre that consumes for pleasure. I’d rather do them all my life than see them. Once in my life I saw a horror movie alone, by Ari Aster, mid summer it’s called, it’s nice because it takes place during the day, but it’s creepy. I have a lot of anxiety, a lot of goat. They are like mini panic attacks all the time.
-And do you work or do you assume?
-No, I assumed it. That scares me and makes my stomach ache. With the first of unknown landFor example, I have a lot of anxiety. Yesterday I only slept two hours with the desire that I have it to happen. If I send you a picture of my fingers, I am totally morphed …
– Does anxiety work?
– Well, unfortunately it is part. Myself I am an extremely anxious person overall a bit rushed. Presumed, but I try to work some things to be able to get off. There are also other chemical reactions that must cause anxiety that I can’t control. But this is an important event, which doesn’t happen to me every day.
-It is justified …
– For what the project entails, to be a national super mega production, it is a great responsibility. We have a lot of backpacks on, but in the best sense of the word.
The joy of being the baddest of the series
-You had a desire to play a villain, which was not yet given to you.
-I wanted to, I was never the villain on screen. I think there is something inevitable about the villain that is a lot of fun. It amuses me a lot, I enjoyed it incredibly, because it wears that trick of being bad.
-He’s not even that bad …
-He’s not a villain per se or anything more cartoonish. He is more of an antagonist it had its share of constant evil. And I loved it.
The villain always generates empathy in movies. More like Disney, like My favorite villain. Axel is not funny at all, but I enjoyed doing bad things. Even with whoever plays my father, Lautaro Delgado, we did nothing but laugh after laugh, inside the terrifying that had to be transmitted.
-So far nothing you’ve done is similar to the above, quite the opposite. Is it given or are they conscious decisions?
-I try, when opportunities arise, to do different things because that’s what I want to do today with my career. Try different genres, where I feel most comfortable, where not. So far I haven’t noticed any discomfort with anything.
-No?
– Actually no. I take advantage of the opportunities to grow and discover other things, especially at this age. And don’t stay with the same or in the comfort zone.
-In fact, you auditioned for a musical …
-And in that audition I did well and then I did it Gamesat the theatre.
Music, for now, is not a path
– Is music something you consider in your choices?
-Maybe in some castings where I have to sing they ask me if I play an instrument, and it’s the bass. But I don’t have any plans to venture down that road either It’s not that I will release an album next year and I will be at the Movistar Arena.
And he clarifies: “But it is something that I have very much present as every person on planet earth who loves music. I have my grandfather, Leibele, from my father (Adrián Suar), who was a very important melodic singer in the Jewish community.
-You must have grown up listening to their stories.
-Yes, unfortunately, because I would have liked to hear them firsthand from him, but I’ve never met him. So all those stories come from other people who have told them to me. I would have liked to have met him. And now all I have left are his records.
Tomás does not underestimate the “no”, but he knows, despite his young 24 years, that nothing is so decisive.
“I always have yes or no. But for this villain I was very confident because I saw myself for the role. And when the yes came, it was total madness! ”, Relives the virtual and face-to-face selection process, which involved at least five casting stages. “Have they ever told me: Oops… you will and you have such a beautiful face. Even if never sideways: it will damage your career.
-Does it happen often?
-It is not that they tell me this every day and it is not even something that bothers me. For me it is part of the actor, of knowing how to transform. And that they give you that opportunity without prejudice. But it happened to me in some castings that I had to go and do something else, nothing to do, and they told me.
-For instance…
-Someone who got stuck between my eyebrows? You know I don’t have one. Because I am not a spiteful person. Maybe I feel very frustrated at that moment and then I forget about it. In a way, I create a trash can, a roll of paper and throw it in the trash. I will not die nor will it be the last role I play in my life. At first, maybe I had more insecurities, but today, at 62, that’s all.
A park in “Tim Burton style”.
Among the exploits of the artistic team of unknown landthere is the heart for which the plot beats: the construction of a theme park in a former military factory that has fallen into disrepair. “They showed us the plans before, but I didn’t imagine that greatness,” Mora and his colleagues are honest.
“There were acres and acres of an abandoned amusement park and six children who couldn’t believe it. Between the holes we find an incredible abandoned laboratory. With authentic jars, file folders, old soda bottles, tunnels and even books next to broken windows, which were neither dirty nor wet, ”they add.
In this fantasy arsenal, every location in the series created by Non Stop and with an Argentine cast, has betrayed its mystique.
“We recorded at night and many were abandoned places. Like a mansion in a vacant lot in San Vicente, which she had behind her the story of Felicitas Guerrero, of families and murders, where she felt a very dense energy “, says Maurizi, ex Violet.
And Lepera concludes: “I was teleported by that Tomi who watched so many movies for TV. Tim Burton. To be there and feel part of that world strange and disturbing such. In fact, I started watching horror movies after doing the series, but from a more technical point of view.
The path of cinema and a trip to Jerusalem
On the way to the cinema and with more “backpacks” than the good ones, Toto Kirzner, an actor trained with Nora Moseinco, swells his chest.
“I wanted to make films and luckily Rodrigo Fernández Engler called me. The film will be called The night I fought against God and it was totally crazy. We were in Córdoba where we shot for a month with an extraordinary team, ”he anticipates his first leading role on the big screen.
It is a film based on real events that was triggered by the AMIA Attack. “We are missing two scenes and for this we have to plan a trip to Israel in September,” he explains.
-Does it motivate you to travel there?
-I don’t know and it moves me a lot. I have friends who have been living there for a while and they tell me it’s great. Going to the old city in Jerusalem must be awful.
Have you ever been given a spiritual or experimental journey?
-I would like to plan a diving trip that interests me a lot and I love to get in the water. It’s something I think about from time to time, but I don’t know if I’ll do it this year or maybe next year.
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Sabrina Galante
Source: Clarin
