Javier Bard em is confident that audiences in America will enjoy “The Good Boss” as much as those in Spain when the film arrives in the U.S. later this month.
NEW YORK (AP) — Javier Bard em is confident that audiences in America will enjoy “The Good Boss” as much as moviegoers in Spain when the film arrives in the U.S. later this month.
“When we were doing screenings in Los Angeles and New York and some other places in the states, when we were presenting the movie for the Oscars, the theaters were packed and people were laughing and having a great time and also, (gasp), holding their breath at the end when they understand what they were laughing about,” Bard em said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s satire about corporate corruption opens August 26 in New York and Los Angeles before a nationwide rollout that comes months after the film won six Goya Awards (Spain’s equivalent to the Oscars) and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for best international feature film.
“I think the reaction is pretty much the same everywhere we went, in Spain and out of Spain, and that speaks volumes of the quality of the story and the movie and the character and the dialogues. So I expect them to have a great time, to laugh and see some of their own work experiences on screen.”
In “The Good Boss” (“El BUE N Patrón”), Bard em portrays Julio Blanco, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business that goes to great lengths to solve any problems from his workers in time while anxiously awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence.
It's a very different character from Bard em's portrayal of Desi Ayaz in “Being the Ricardo's” which earned him his fourth Oscar nomination earlier this year. The Spanish star won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in 2008 for “No Country for Old Men” and competed for best actor in 2001 and 2011 for “Before Night Falls” and “Beautiful”, respectively.
In a recent interview from Budapest, where he is filming the second installment of “Dune,” Bard em spoke about “The Good Boss”, his acting process, and the impact that fatherhood has had on his life. The actor and his wife, Academy Award-winner Penélope Cruz, have two children together: Leo, 11, and Luna, 9.
AP: “The Good Boss” arrives in the US after the success of “Being the Ricardo's.” How did you go from one role to the other? What is your process?
BARD EM: I guess the process is to really trust the good writing of the scriptwriters and follow their leads, follow what they’ve done so beautifully. In this case, we’re talking about Aaron Serkan and Fernando León, both extraordinarily talented directors and writers. So, there’s a proposal there on the page, and you just go with the proposal because there are steps beautifully put together by the writer that tells you where to go. On the other hand, I try to prepare the roles with my acting coach, Juan Carlos Corazón, who I work with since I was 20 years old, and he’s my friend and my mentor, he helps me a big deal to get to the place where I understand organically what a character is like.
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