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Has your heart ever been broken?
Do you believe in God?
rather than enact written dialogue.
Still, word shed landed the part came as a shock.
It was never my goal to actually get the role.
I was just curious at every stage about the process.
It had to be someone with a more fresh-off-the-boat quality.
Plus, he was adamant that it couldnt be like your traditional soap-opera-ish performance.
For him, it needed to be authentic.
She continued: So its like,Where do you find these communities?
How do you get access to these communities that have never had casting sessions?
They didnt say who the director was or for what movie wed be auditioning, Aparicio recalls.
They just said they were looking for women of any body jot down and age.
That and just the name of the production company was all.
I knew nothing at all about Alfonso, says Aparicio.
It was like love at first sight, Gabriela Rodriguez says.
Relief because we found the right person, he said.
But fear what if she said no?
The movie wouldnt work.
Her family were afraid that the casting call was human trafficking.
They said that casting is not normal.
The scary thing about that statement is that casting is not normal in Mexico but human trafficking is.
That is the reality of Mexico.)
I did not know at all what anybodys reaction was going to be, she says.
This was true of every single scene.
That scene shocked us all.
The entire crew was in horror, Rodriguez says.
The PAs and the runners came to me and were like, This is not okay.
I dont know if I can look at that guy again, the way he just spoke to her.
Everybody was really hurt.
So it not only affected Yalitza; it affected us all.
Ive only seen them on TV, she says.
I dont really have any relationship to the Oscars other than experiencing them as a spectator.
