Amaia Salamanca faces a new challenge in her career, that of shooting entirely in English. She does it together with Carlos Cuevas in La piel del tambor, an adaptation of the work by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which arrives on the billboard this Friday.
Of all this experience, what is most strange to both is hearing their voices dubbed into Spanish. "It's somewhat surreal. But you have to understand that we work with an international cast, and that it would be disproportionate that some had professional dubbing and others didn't," acknowledges the Madrilenian.
The story focuses on the Sevillian church of Nuestra Señora de las Lágrimas. There a series of mysterious deaths take place and a computer hacker warns the Pope about it by sneaking into his personal computer and leaving him a message. The Vatican will send the priest Quart, the best of his investigators, played by Richard Armitage, to find out what is happening in the Andalusian capital.
"It is a church that belongs to the ancestors of my character, the Bruners, and I will do the impossible so that this does not happen, although the fact that several people have died there does not help," Salamanca tells La Vanguardia, which plays the aristocrat Macarena Bruner.
Cuevas, for his part, gets into "one of the most different roles played to date", that of a priest in charge of high security at the Vatican. "When I found out about the possibility of participating in this film, in which there is no lack of action and mystery, but also hackers and history, I knew that I had to do everything possible to participate."
The story takes place in different settings, such as Seville or the Vatican, which has led the actors to travel to different places. Something that, they acknowledge, "is the greatest privilege of our profession," admits Salamanca. Cuevas also sees it that way and admits that "I am of an age and I am at a professional moment in which I am open to shooting all over the world. If tomorrow he tells me to go to Hong Kong, I will be the first to catch a plane. It is not just an opportunity to get to know other cities, but to get closer to its people in a more real way than tourists".
Although Pérez-Reverte was not part of the filming, the author did not miss the moment to congratulate both the cast and the director on his social networks, assuring that it is one of the best adaptations that has been made of one of his novels. "It is something that we certainly celebrate," say the actors.
