Ángela Cervantes (Barcelona, 1993) is not a actress any. None is, but she less. Just awarded at the Malaga Festival for its first leading role, its irruption in that called Spanish cinema shares modles, outburst and attitude with a tornado. But of the greats. In 2022, his role in Chavalasby Carol Rodríguez, earned his first Goya nomination. The following year, the same for his work in The maternal, of Pilar Palomero. And two later, and after a 2024 dedicated in large part to JAURÍAthe work written by Jordi Casanovas and directed by Miguel del Arco, everything seems to indicate that there will be again. But beyond prizes and mentions, what overwhelms is what was achieved in To the anger, Gemma Blasco’s film in which Angela Cervantes demonstrates above any reasonable doubt that, in effect, is not an actress.
«I remember not so long ago I thought that if I did not lose weight I would not be able to continue working. The referents that I saw anything had to do with my body. And after a while, I have realized that I have been able to work and make my personal trip without changing anything or my body. My only problem is still showrooms. I go and there are no sizes for me. The truth is a bit alarming, ”he says not as much as a lament or criticism, that a little too, but perhaps even as a triumph, which is what it is. That ardan the showroomswhatever this is.
In To angershe is exposed on a channel and with all the consequences. Free of Pudores (“I have worked hard to give off from him,” he says), gives life to a violated actress at a New Year’s Eve party. He does not recognize his aggressor, he does not know who of his supposed friends has taken advantage of his drunkenness to hurt her even the deepest. What follows is a trip in solitude through matters such as disgust, shame and guilt. And also anger and infinite pain. And he gets angry, of course. «Getting angry is very difficult for a woman. We see male characters pissed off in fiction and not surprise us. But the image of women is always associated with calm. Since childhood they teach you to be the good daughter, the good student, the good partner … An angry woman creates a rejection that an angry man never creates. And maybe we must lose the fear of teaching that disgust. In the case of my character, he is part of his healing, ”he explains for making it clear again that his thing is, he looks where he looks, a revolution in progress. Not a topic without exploiting a common place without jumping through the air.
After having given life on the stages to the victim of the pack (that was the work JAURÍA), Now he gets back into the skin of an outraged and humiliated woman in the deepest, a woman, who is also an actress like herself in reality, and who finds her escape (and her healing perhaps) thanks, precisely, her work, to interpretation. “The most terrible for a woman in such a situation is constantly judged by others. ‘If I had not done this, if it had not gotten into there, if you had not dressed in that way … ‘. And the saddest thing is that it is the woman attacked and raped that ends up judging herself. Society leaves us without referents, without knowing what to do to the point that you do not know whether to report or not … all this has to change, “he says after recognizing the much accumulated sadness after papers so to the limit.
Account that if you look back you have the impression of leading your whole life with this movie. Companion of the Director’s institute, he was clear since he was not being actress like his brother Álvaro who To anger It would be your film debut. It was not so, but, seen what was seen, the tape may well be considered the first of everything that will come. «The truth is that people like Gemma or Pilar or Carol have shown us that there are other stories in addition to those that were telling us. They were telling us only part of reality and we believed that part was everything. And no, the voice of women directors have helped us complete the image. But there is still a lot, because there are many other groups that have no voice for the simple reason that they cannot make cinema, ”says Angela, one of the few Spanish actresses who could presume (and presumes) of having worked in his life with more directors than directors. Angela Cervantes is definitely not an actress.