CANNES, France – “Her committed turn not only makes her the defining supporting performance of the year thus far, but also, if enough Academy members make a note to focus on quality , she could be the frontrunner walking into awards season.”critic Clayton Davis was raving about for her performance in , in main competition in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, walked over to an Italian trattoria where we met her for the first time. It was late afternoon on a cobblestoned street off busy Croisette.
Clayton also wrote: “The other awards-worthy point is the utterly lived-in and commanding performance of Dolly de Leon, a Filipina actress unknown Stateside, who could become a passionate contender. Playing Abigail, the toilet manager of the luxurious yacht, her small stature does not hold her back from becoming the acting giant of the sprawling tale.”
Pauline Hansson, the casting director, flew to the Philippines. They held auditions there for 11 days. And I auditioned. It was a live, face-to-face audition because this was pre-pandemic. We talked about his directing process, how he does it, how he works. He got into detail with that. So, it was really a meeting on checking how I would understand him because of the language barrier, because he’s Swedish.
So, he’s very familiar with that. Actually, I also noticed that in Sweden, they’re very aware that a lot of us Filipinos are working abroad doing those kinds of jobs. And your reaction to the script in the film as a wicked social satire on wealth, class, race, and social media influencers, among others?It’s about time we listen to these messages from filmmakers who are making a very bold statement about the way the world is working today. The way everything we do is controlled by social media, beauty, youth, being perfect, being flawless.
He meant Tagalog or Filipino. “Say this line in Philippian.” And us actors, we would just say the lines in Filipino. I observe that about myself as an actor. When it’s something I really like, and I really am looking forward to doing, I’m nervous about that. For me, this is fine because that’s my training in theater. That’s what we’re used to, rehearsing, doing it over and over again. And play with it, improvise, and find it. And that’s the term we use – to find it.
And I’ve also experienced being away from home for a long period of time. I know how it feels to be Abigail in that sense of being away from home, away from your loved ones, living in a strange land, speaking a language that is not your own.
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