“It’s scary that a tweet can be a court ruling”

– The actress stars alongside Pablo Derqui in ‘Anatema’, Jimina Sabadú’s debut film that is already in cinemas

Leonor Watling stars ‘Anathema‘, a horror film by Jimina Sabadú that opens in theaters this Friday in which she shares shots with Juan Antonio Codina recently accused of sexual assault by Miranda Yorch and another of her former students from the school of performing arts. When questioned about this question, Watling prefers to be cautious although she confesses that she ““It’s very scary that suddenly a tweet is a court ruling.”

In an interview with Europa Press, Watling and Pablo Derqui, the other protagonist of ‘Anatema’address recent sexual assault allegations against his co-star in the film. They both prefer “not give an opinion” and “increase the noise” because they do not know more information about the case.

However, the actress adds: “The only thing I would say is that I prefer to live in a world where the Blackstone law exists, which is what the entire judicial world is governed by. I’d rather there be one guilty person on the street than 10 innocent people in jail. Our legal system is based on that. I’m very afraid that suddenly a tweet will be a court ruling“.

In relation to this issue, Sabadú clarifies that Codina was only filming ‘Anatema’ for “two days” and states flatly: “I think this has to stop in general. Drama students don’t have to put up with everything.”. If you don’t want someone to touch you, it’s not part of the role. If I take an actor and to explain to him how to play a role I grab his package, I am crossing limits and we should not allow them to be crossed.”

“It is not worth taking advantage of people who are 18, 19, 20 years old, who are fragile, to take advantage of them. We have to convey to people who are starting to study that not everything is valid, that you can protect yourself and that you can tell someone to go to hell, slap them in the face and nothing happens. The responsibility is not theirs, I am not saying that at all, the responsibility always lies with the aggressor.. But it seems good to me that cases are emerging so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else,” he says.

“VERY POOR MANAGEMENT IN VALENCIA”

On the other hand, regarding the terrible events that occurred in Valencia, Watling confesses that it is “very difficult for him to talk about a film when everything that is happening is happening”, but that “you can’t stop”, because also “you owe it to them”, referring to those affected. His companion alludes to “the need for greater awareness regarding the reality of climate change” at the moment. Derqui also considers that this situation “reveals quite poor management” for which he assumes that “they will clarify responsibilities.”

Sabadú agrees with the actress on the difficulty of promoting a film after the destruction caused by DANA, because she believes “that the attention has to be there“And what’s more, the director attacks the management of the authorities in this situation, demanding more speed and forcefulness in the response.

“You have to be very faint-hearted not to dare to break protocol to save people. I think that it will take more than ten years for the Valencians in these areas to recover their lives. And all because there have been a series of people who did not want to get involved. “That’s terrible,” he says.

“CAÑÍ” MIXTURE OF “HUMOR AND TERROR”

‘Anatema’, the third film released under the label with which Álex de la Iglesia y Carolina Bang promote several Spanish horror productions, The Fear Collectionoffers the viewer, according to Watling, the possibility of “vicariously experiencing something that I hope never happens in the lives of those who go to see this film” and maintains that that mix of “cañí, humor and terror” It comes from a “suggestive” and “different” look at the script of the film co-signed by Sabadú and Elio Quiroga.

“It seems to me that the horror genre is suddenly getting a status that it was not given before. Sitges has always been there, but suddenly there are films that go to class A festivals, that go to Cannes, that go to Venice. And there are horror movies that would never do it before. A horror movie did not fit into the normal circuit“, comments the actress about the growing reputation that genre cinema is achieving in recent years.

Among Sabadú’s references in her first feature film, the director highlights that she thought about the cinema of Nicolas Roeg, Álex de la Iglesia and Juan Piquer Simón when constructing the imagery surrounding ‘Anatema’. Regarding the staging, the director states that, above all, she opted for a “70s-style” direction.“, in which “several things were told on the same plane.”

“A young nun (Juana Rabadán) is commissioned to visit the catacombs of one of the oldest churches in Madrid. The archbishop suspects that under its endless tunnels is the Seal of Saint Simeon, placed there by the holy hermit himself with the in order to safeguard the world from an evil from past times. With the help of the young priest Ángel, the novice Mara, and the exorcist Cuiña, Juana will go down to the city’s underground to confront not only the supernatural, but also her past.“, reads the official synopsis of the film.

The main cast of the film is also made up of Jaime Ordóñez, Keren Hapuc, Mauro Brussolo-Arocena, Mariano Llorente, Manuel de Blas, and Xoán Fórneas and also has the special collaborations of Margarita Lascoiti, Fedra Lorente and Juan Manuel Montilla ‘El Langui’ .