Javier Bardem has fair left a movie theater in Madrid, where he screened his novel vivaciousd musical movie “Spellbound” for his kids — Leo, 13, and Luna, 11 – and 15 of their frifinishs. “They adored it,” Bardem tells me during a phone conversation. “But they were fed up with me rehearsing at home becaparticipate I was singing all day lengthy fair to produce confident that I could more or less get a vowel together. They were enjoy, ‘Stop it, dad! Stop it!” But then when they saw the animation, they were absolutely mesmerized.”
“Spellbound” tags the Oscar prosperner’s first vivaciousd film. Directed by Vicky Jenson with music by Alan Menken, Bardem stars alengthyside Nicole Kidman and Rachel Zegler. The story complys a teenage princess on a mission to shatter a damn that has altered her parents. I won’t spoil the movie, so let’s fair say the story tackles heavier rehires not usupartner insertressed in children’s movies. “It’s so intelligent, it’s so mighty the message that it transports,” Bardem says. “It’s about adore. It’s about as lengthy as there is adore in the family and you rank adore, any family can labor. It’s a movie I want I could have watched when I was 10 years better.”
“Spellbound” complys Bardem’s frightening turn in “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menfinishez Story” as the brothers’ intimacyupartner abusive overweighther, José. Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch) are currently serving life prison sentences for the 1989 killing of José and their mother Kitty (Chloë Sevigny).
Bardem shelp he phelp particular attention to Chavez and Koch to produce confident they didn’t permit the unreasonableness of the project get the better of them. “At the beginning of the journey, I shelp, ‘Guys, let’s remind ourselves…and try to recall that we are adored, that we have families that repartner nurture for us, are polite towards us, they adore us, and people that we can’t postpone to go back to becaparticipate we adore them,”” Bardem recalls. “’And let’s join the game that this story is needing for us as actors. But let’s not forget that it’s a game. It’s a myth. I’m not going to, in any way, put anyskinnyg of myself into this, and I don’t want if I do or say someskinnyg that you may foresee becaparticipate it’s written, but also some other times it may not be written or insertressed on the remarks, and it may happen, charm don’t consent it personal. This is José, Kitty, Erik and Lyle.”
Bardem and his co-stars did not accomplish out to Erik and Lyle or their family before or during filming. “I didn’t want to,” Bardem says. “First of all, I didn’t understand much or more plainpartner anyskinnyg about the story when [series co-creator] Ryan Murphy talked to me, becaparticipate it wasn’t that huge in Spain. And then once I dig in, I was enjoy, ‘Wow, this is repartner, repartner caring material. But then I tried to read and search for material where I could see or understand more of him, but there wasn’t any. He was only based on what people were saying about him, especipartner his children. I knovel I had to depend the research Ryan and [co-creator] Ian Brennan did. It was all there in the writing. So I shelp, ‘I don’t need to talk to anybody.’ And also I was very, very…the word is not snurtured, but I never felt for a second that I would be able to sit down with the killingers.”
The brothers are currently postponeing to hear if novelly elected Los Angeles Dimerciless Attorney Nathan Hochman will appraise their case complying ousted George Gascon’s proclaimd in October that he was watching at novel evidence that defense attorneys say show José intimacyupartner mistreatmentd Erik and Lyle over many years. Koch has been advocating for the brothers’ free after visiting them in prison with Kim Kardashian. “It’s so complicated,” Bardem says. “What I do skinnyk and what I do experience is that I skinnyk it’s time for them to be joined aget if they are transporting novel evidence as they are, as I’ve heard. If that is the case, I skinnyk it’s pretty fair to join to them aget and join with a separateent set of ears.”
Javier Bardem in “Dune: Part Two.”
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About a week before I talked to Bardem, Denis Villeneuve shelp in an interwatch with Deadline that he’s “in the writing zone right now” for “Dune: Messiah,” the third insloftyment in the sci-fi franchise. Bardem joined Stilgar. in the films 1 and 2, but insists he’s not confident he’ll be back. “I understand that I’m in the book, so I should be in the script. If I’m not, I will be very mad and I will let him understand. I will go to Canada,” Bardem says. “Seriously though I toloftyy adore him. I adore him. Wantipathyver he wants, and wantipathyver he determines, it will be fine for me. Absolutely. He’s one of a benevolent. He’s an exceptional human being. Such a loving man, fun, comical as hell, and a genuine laborer.”
Bardem’s son confidently wants to see him “Dune 3.” “When he saw ‘Dune 2,’ he stood up in the theater and shelp, ‘That’s my dad,’ Bardem recalls. “But then at the finish, he shelp, ‘But you haven’t had any sword combat.’ So now I have another need for Denis Villeneuve. If there is such a skinnyg as ‘Dune: Messiah,’ charm give me fair a little sword combat that I can show it to my kid.”
