On your Instagram account, Luisana Lopilaato It is announced as “actress, model and above all mom.” Actually, Lopilate is one of those figures that does not need any presentation. It is part of the history of Argentine television thanks to emblematic cycles such as “married to children”, “in therapy”, “Chiquititas” and “rebel way.”
The premiere of “Message in a bottle” Allows the actress’s meeting with news. Directed by Gabriel Nesci, it is a proposal that combines romantic comedy with science fiction to the “Black Mirror” style and distils passion for wine and vinyl.
Lopilato stars and is accompanied by a great cast with performers such as Benjamín Vicuña, Luciano Cáceres, Benjamín Amadeo, Valeria Lois, Rafael Spregelburd, Luis Machín and Eduardo Blanco, among others.
Mother of four children – Noah (11), Elijah (9), Life (6) and Heaven (2) -, married to an international singer – Michael Bublé -, unfolds in a chameleonic task: Canadian idyllic life and constant work in Argentina.
With a clear preference for telling stories that are part of the film universe, he has headed stories with actors such as Joaquín Furriel, Juan Minujín and Guillermo Francella. Now it will be put under the experienced tutelage of Lucia Puenzo in “La Pistolera” (Pepita’s legend).
Although YouTube videos perpetuate her in an eternal adolescence, in “Message in a bottle” she plays Denise, a woman who suffers an existential rethink when the file falls that is about to meet forty.
News: He addressed different genres such as romantic comedy, drama or police in titles such as “Message in a bottle”, the “Pipa” saga or in its next project on “Pepita, La Pistolera”. Do you like to travel along the path of versatility?
Luisana Lopilato: Yes I like it. And I loved this movie from the beginning, it seemed to me that I had a super intelligent script. In fact, when the material arrived, it was hard for me to understand where the movie was going until I got together with the director, I even asked him why I had thought about me for the role. Gabriel Nesci had the film tattooed practically, he had been writing and working for many years. That was very important to be able to make “message in a bottle” because it is a comedy with time trips and a little science fiction, so I was curious to know how I was going to solve it, it was a genre that I had never done. I knew it was a little risky proposal, but I liked having the possibility of interpreting someone traveling in time, it allowed me to go through different stages of that person’s life, it was very interesting.
News: Did you feel identified with Denise, your character? Because one sees you and thinks that you have nothing to regret life …
Lopilate: (He laughs) What do I know, who has no things that would like to change his past, right? We are all wrong and we have sent some. Denise finds how to send messages to the past magically putting them inside a bottle. When you realize that it works begins to take the pleasure and start modifying the past a bit so that your present is different.
News: You make many films, do you prioritize cinema on series to better manage your times?
Lopilate: The truth is that it is simply because I like cinema very much and I don’t have reached series that have tempted me. At this stage of my life I choose projects that make me happy, that I like to travel them, be part of a film with actors such as those who work in it is spectacular. And it was also Gabriel Nesci, with whom I had never worked. Everything in this experience was very nice, from the producers, who are so good people, to the classmates and technicians. That does not happen in all projects, there is always something, here there was never a bad time.
News: Regarding this to prioritize what makes her happy, in a movie the happiest is filming?
Lopilate: Yes, but the previous one too, everything. Making a film is pre -production, the pre of the pre, later the filming, then the post and finally look at it. There was a first cut of “message in a bottle” that lasted about three and a half hours, then when they edit it and shape it, all that world is exciting. I already saw her finished like eight or nine times and I always like it! As has an unexpected ending with that feeling of: “Ah, what a beautiful film.”
News: His dad is called Eduardo and Eduardo Blanco plays the father of his character. Was it a happy coincidence?
Lopilate: Yes, I remember that in one of the first meetings we had Eduardo Blanco told me the same! Do you know something? He was clear that my dad is called Eduardo because the two are River fans and are on the court.
News: He had to make Sommelier, did he know the world of wine or did he have to learn something about the trade?
Lopilate: I didn’t have much idea, I had to learn. I have a friend who is just Sommelier, she is very involved in the world of wine, she lives in Canada and helped me a lot, she threw a lot of tips. Then, on the set there were also sommeliers for what we need, because it is important to know how you will grab the bottle, how you uncover it, how you serve. In fact I added all that for life. I already started to look already to say: “Look, he is grabbing the bad cup.” Now I make the canchera (laughs).
News: There is a detail that causes me curiosity. Why did he become a brunette for the film?
Lopilate: It was a proposal from the director and a decision that we made together. It also seemed to me that being a film where many changes of hair, short, long, bangs were needed in time … women do a lot of things in the head over twelve years. And you saw that in that our moods are reflected, we have a very particular relationship with the hair and change of look. Denise is a bit acidic, handles an ironic humor and I think the morocho helped reflect that side.
News: At this time there is a great success of Argentine cinema, Adrián Suar put more than one hundred forty thousand spectators with his movie “Mazel Tov.” Does that raise your expectations?
Lopilate: We are going to have a million! (laughs). I have the best expectations, it is a movie in which I enjoyed everything, from zero to one hundred. I think people are going to have a good time, you have to go to the movies to see it. It is not something you can look at while you wash the dishes, it requires sitting on the armchair and paying attention, because perhaps if you miss any twist you will not manage to follow the story. So don’t go to the cinema …
News: Speaking of turns in the story, this is an unconventional romantic comedy, many men travel through Denise’s life, but it seems that the most important is always his father …
Lopilate: She is a girl who had no luck in love relationships and who wanted to change a lot of things because she failed to be happy with the decisions she made. And in one of those decisions the relationship with the father appears strongly, we will not tell it because it is the dessert fruity!
News: Recently they were accompanying the film at the Malaga Festival, how was that experience?
Lopilate: It was an experience, the Malaga Festival was pretty because the general public saw it for the first time. It happened to me that people got up from the armchair and came to hug me crying, something like that had never happened to me. Gabriel told me: “You’re going to see what is going to happen to this movie,” but he is the director, his son is the movie. In the end I was right, I never lived something like now. That they hug you and tell you that they were moved by the message had not happened to me.
News: I take a license with something that has nothing to do with this movie. You played a great role in “in therapy”, it has already happened more than a decade, how do you remember?
Lopilate: Oh yes, Alejandro Maci directed us. “In therapy” was like the door to play other tones in the performance, also an opportunity to try. The actor’s path is very long and you necessarily try things, you see what you like, how you can do it, how to achieve it must be proven, then one can be wrong in the choice, or not. In the case of “In Therapy”, Ale Maci helped me a lot, he and Diego Peretti were full with me, they trusted a lot about what I was doing, it was very nice.
News: Having started in the profession being so girl helped her for everything that would come later?
Lopilate: Yes, I think he gave me experience. Working since I was a child living all the time with people from the environment allowed me to learn to be on a day -to -day basis, living surrounded by cameramen, producers and colleagues. The height is that as a girl I took it more naturally, over time I got worse, now I am more shame to speak (he smiles).
News: Soon is his birthday. What would be a perfect gift?
Lopilate Oh yes! Let them go see the movie and like it, that would be a great gift.
