How Diego Calva went from supporting roles in his native Mexico to co-starring with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic #Babylon https://t.co/mCwQR78E4u
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) November 30, 2022
GQ interviewed Diego Calva ahead of his debut in the upcoming Oscar hopeful ‘Babylon’ where he discussed how it feels to be on the brink of movie stardom.
Highlights below:
– On impending fame: After production wrapped on Babylon, a 1920s Golden Age of Hollywood epic, actor Diego Calva received some advice from the film’s director, Damien Chazelle. “Go travel the world. Walk in your town with no problem. Your life is really about to change. I know you love movies, but sometimes I feel guilty because I am literally going to make it so you won’t be able to walk down the street,” Calva remembers the director telling him. “And I was like, ‘Come on, Damien. What are you saying?’ But maybe it’s going to be true.”
– On ‘Narcos’: “There’s a moment in your career as an actor that you really can’t choose your roles. You are just grateful that you’re having a job, and Narcos is a great show,” he says. “But in my case, it’s a little hard because the way they put the story of my country, I don’t agree at all. There’s a lot of truth and that’s amazing, but there’s a lot of lies, too. I think my country doesn’t need more narco culture and making these guys heroes…This is too raw. I don’t know if I really want to keep shooting people.”
– Margot Robbie on Calva: “I couldn’t have found the character I played without him. He completely shaped my work just by being the actor that he is and by playing Manny the way he did. It totally changed everything,” she says. “You can be a brilliant actor and not necessarily have that movie star quality. I think he has both. I think he’s a brilliant actor and he has a presence about him that I think will make him the movie star he’s going to be.”
“It reminded me of the experience I had working on Wolf of Wall Street,” she says. “This is his first [American movie], he’s doing scenes with Brad Pitt and being directed by Damien Chazelle. I was still like, “Oh my God, I can’t believe that this is the first American movie. What the hell?’”
He stayed with Robbie and her husband during filming.
– He wants to still build a career with Latin directors: “My dream is to be part of Latin American cinema always,” he says. “My only fear right now is that maybe Latin directors are going to think, ‘That guy will never come back,’ and they are not going to call me.”
– Director Damien Chazelle says he was unsure of Calva at first but after encouragement from his wife and a successful chemistry test he was hired.
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