Paz Vega (actress)
"This is not the Carmen we were used to seeing; the folkloristic Carmen, Andalusian, beautiful, charismatic... impetuous, even if some of these characteristics are undoubtedly present in her. More than anything else, to quote Vicente, “Carmen is a woman”... What helped me the most was the fact that Carmen is the survivor of an era. A fighter who uses the weapons at her disposal to survive. In this case those weapons are her intelligence and beauty. This Carmen suffers, she experiences a powerful inner conflict between the woman she would like to be and the woman other people want her to be. We also see a dirty, uncombed, bare-faced Carmen. Then we also see her dressed as a man, riding a horse, and with a knife tucked into her belt. A very macho image that is diametrically opposite to the feminine character we are all familiar with.”
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