ANTOFAGASTAN ACTRESS PROTAGONIST OF FILM
El Mercurio of Antofagasta, Tuesday, January 2, 2007

The film is called “Optical Illusions”. Paola Lattus interprets Manuela, a woman with self-esteem problems.

The actress from Antofagasta, Paola Lattus Ramos, now established in Santiago, will make her film debut playing a protagonist role in the feature film “Optical Illusions”, by the debuting director Cristián Jiménez, a fact which reaffirms her ascendant career as an actress. “I went to a casting and was selected. I had the sort of profile for the character they were looking for. This is a professional job,” affirms the actress from the start. The film consists of three stories bound together by the characters. “It all happens at the same time, but in different places of Valdivia.”

LEADING ROLES

Paola Lattus will share leading roles with actors Roberto Farías and Iván Alvarez de Araya. Also part of the cast are Alvaro Rudolphy, Valentina Vargas (“The Name of the Rose”) and Gregory Cohen, among others. She explains that in July they shot the trailer for the film in Valdivia.

The character Paola Lattus develops is Manuela, a middle-class secretary with a beauty problem. “She doesn’t think she’s very pretty and she’s shy, unlike her friend who is voluptuous. Manuela lives with and supports her brother (Roberto Farías) who doesn’t pay much attention to her”.

“The film is a comedy. There are three stories that come together: one of a blind guy who gains his sight but ends up seeing blurrily; the story of Manuela, the secretary who faces a self-esteem problem and finally decides to do something to change her fate; and the story of her brother, who works as a mall security guard and falls in love with a rich kleptomaniac, who is played by Valentina Vargas”.

A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE

The actress highlights the experience of participating in a film, “because the language is totally different from that of theater, in the sense that body language is much more contained, therefore it’s necessary to be controlled. The other difference, and the most significant, is that the movie actor isn’t the most important part, but rather is working to benefit the image as a whole”.