In 1994 Quentin Tarantino won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival with his second film, Pulp Fiction. In this choral story, one of the most praised performances was borne by John Travolta, like a hitman in love called Vincent Vega. After more than thirty years, Lorena is now transcending to the last name Vega.
One of the best Argentine actresses today, also stands out as director, playwright, teacher and cultural manager. Turned his own family history into a biodrama called “Printing” which reached a multidisciplinary hierarchy including theater, literature and cinema. Artisan of the theatrical scene, formed unforgettable doubles with Valeria Lois in “Extraordinary life” and with Laura Paredes in “The captives”.
In Netflix he found his place in the audiovisual world with proposals such as “The Kingdom”, “In the mud” and “Envious”, that has just released his second season. There is Fernanda, Vicky’s psychologist, the character of Griselda Sicilianihis re -ask and his gestures as characteristic as eloquent, made the character someone so popular that he came to star and viralize a promotional video with Draw Martínez as a patient. The most attractive thing about the romantic comedy is the therapy session where Fernanda and Vicky get sparks, a counterpoint that reminds of that endearing complicit game carried out by Javier Portales and Alberto Olmedo, the remembered Álvarez and Borges.
News: It is known a lot for interpreting very demanding characters from the physical, such as Encarnación Ezcurra, for example. Fernanda, his “envious” character, is a psychologist who is permanently seated. Was it a challenge for you?
Lorena Vega: Yes, it was a challenge because the type of body organization that I have in Fernanda’s character is a strong physical work, it seems that when there is deployment there is more effort and in reality that level of synthesis and concentration that this role requires is also a great physical work
News: Now we have a hard time imagining another actress in Fernanda’s role, but was you always thought about or offered by any other character?
Vega: They offered me that role and felt invited to do it. I emphasize this difference that has to do with the way of convening because it seems to me that something of that order made me enter this series with a plus. Whenever you are summoned to do something is good news because they trust your work, they are thinking about you and above all it is a job opportunity, which is already great. I lived this as an invitation because both in the production and direction team and in Griselda promptly, there was a kind of intuition that I had to do the character and they waited for that to happen. When it finally occurred, after accommodating other commitments that at first seemed that they could step on, joy was total, I reached the set and felt that everything was given to play.
News: We can say that the bet went well
Vega: Griselda always tells me something that gives me modesty, but I also proud: “I woke up happy knowing that I was going to act with you.” The same thing happened to me, I was happy knowing that I was going to work with such an off user, with which I had so much to learn. We both feel that we were nourishing each other, I swear it was fabulous.
News: Was it the first time they worked together?
Vega: Yes, we had seen each other in theater and we worshiped ourselves in our work because we understand what each one lives with the performance. We have the same code, we share origin, we are both from the Flores y Floresta area, we started in the theater. She obviously made a much broader television, popular and audiovisual career, but the performance came a bit on the same path, we have a lot in common and there was the opportunity to work together in the best of circumstances.
News: What was the best of experience?
Vega: Being hand in hand, with each other, in very juicy scenes. When I had the first meeting with director Gabriel Medina, he told me: “The therapy will be very important, every time the session appears, the character’s intimacy will be processed there. That other side of what we see is going to do that you can understand how Vicky is and love it for other things. ” In addition we are all people who care about therapy, we exercise it. I have done therapy for quite some time and I was super crucial in the personal, so it is a space that I value and the approach of Fernanda I did it a lot estimating that universe. While we were free to print small adjustments to our dynamic, as for the tone or words that were going more with us, I liked that the scripts watched with a scalpel that emotional place of the character of Griselda.
News: To be inspired by the construction of Fernanda he saw a series or film such as “The Soprano” or “People as one” where the figure of the therapist is fundamental in the plot?
Vega: I did not see any prompt to do this work, I have in my internal back up the memory of having seen “the soprano” or the movie “Analízame”, for example, but I did not start checking those materials. I went with the proposal to be good asceptic, synthetic, it seemed to me that the counterpoint of being very different from Vicky was good. I am protected in the universe of therapy where the task is to listen and observe, just two things that I really like to do and were relevant in this character. Something we had talked about is that in the series it was going to give great importance to the not said, to gestures and I played a lot with that, I planted from there with a shape and a body posture.
News: David Lynch died a few weeks ago and you wrote on your Instagram account “David Lynch, my true father.” Can we talk about that post?
Vega: (laughs) Well, since I met him many years ago, when “Twin Peaks” was projected on the old Channel 9, for me it was an incredible discovery, it was a shock to have seen that series that apparently looked like a typical standard material Open television, but nevertheless the door opened to other worlds. I remember hallucinating, getting trapped and discovering how to play in fiction that dark area that comes out of the traditional story. I identified that there was a creator who gave space to the other, to the unknown, to the not named, at the same time. From there I began to follow, to look at his work, to read his interviews. It was not a time of networks so somehow he tried to get his notes, we were spent photocopies of the interviews he had given!
News: It was like a cult
Vega: And yes, did you see that when you get on a subject, the signals begin to appear? That circulated between friends and friends. The first play that I directed in 2002 was called “Nothing to do with love” and was inspired by the universe of “Twin Peaks.” The scenery had to do with the series and the work ended with the projection of a short that had been filmed with the inspiration of David Lynch inspiration, even the music was connected to him. From there in each of the works that I was doing for me David Lynch was always a reference, more explicit or more hidden, but present.
News: Speaking of inspiration, I understand that when your mother acts it is her great reference. Is that so?
Vega: Yes, I went to time. In several characters that I made, for different reasons, I turn to behaviors, tones, more internal ways or virtues of my mother. As it is a strong and very sensitive person I realized that I have it incorporated as sonority as well. Obviously I have observed it a lot and it served me a lot to act.
News: He is currently doing everything at the acting level. For you where success happens?
Vega: For me, it happens to be proud of what I am doing in artistic terms, for speaking with the passion of the work you are doing. There is nothing better than being in love and convinced of the work you are doing in terms of artistically communing and feeling in the presence of a challenge that contains the adventure of that project. Of course, you always work with the hypothesis that there is an audience to adhere, which I hope you are interested and like the result, but what I value most is to feel the pride of being able to defend what I am doing.
News: With the passage of time he learned about love?
Vega: (He laughs) Look, I keep naming it as a mystery. I am still surprising how powerful and unpredictable love is, it has a force of great movement of nature, a kind of hurricane that really achieves the unthinkable. It is something to be delivered.
