EXCLUSIVE: Susi Sánchez, a veteran actress of Spanish-language cinema with credit like Pedro Almodóvar’s The Pores and skin I Dwell In, has signed on to star in El Mal Hijo, the debut function directed by actor Jaime Lorente.
The movie relies on the novel of the identical identify by Salvador S. Molina, who additionally penned the screenplay, and is produced by AF, which introduced the mission to consumers in Cannes.
The mission is scheduled to start capturing this 12 months. The story tells the story of a grandmother (Sánchez) and her eleven-year-old grandson, Rubén, (Abel de la Fuente). The plot opens because the pair start a journey by an limitless subject of lemon bushes and cochineal-infested prickly pears. There, the grandmother needs to point out him one thing nobody else has seen: inside an previous farm shed, Pascuala seems to have her personal son held captive.
The synopsis reads: The sufferer of a household torn aside by hatred, and a tangle of issues and resentment, Rubén is just making an attempt to grasp the place he comes from as he leaves behind the final days of his childhood.
Christian Checa (On the Fringe) will painting the grownup Rubén, ten years later, as he faces the return of a father who arrives on the worst attainable second, making an attempt to repair the unfixable.
Sánchez is a two-time Goya award winner. Her most notable roles embrace Queen Isabella the Catholic in Mad Love (Juana la Loca). She has starred in a number of Pedro Almodóvar movies (The Pores and skin I Dwell In, I’m So Excited!, Julieta, Ache and Glory), in addition to within the Baztán Trilogy variations (The Invisible Guardian, The Legacy of the Bones, Providing to the Storm).
She received the Greatest Actress Goya in 2019 for Sunday’s Sickness and the Goya for Greatest Supporting Actress in 2023 for Lullaby.
