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Q- Is Gael the evil in this story?
A- “La mala educación” is the opposite of the good vs. evil film. However, I never judge characters whatever they do. My job is to “represent them”, “explain their complexity” and come with an entertaining show with all that. Even in the case of political or ideological films, it’s never good to have the director judge his characters however atrocious their behavior might be. Gael’s, as I said before, is the average femme fatal becoming the enfant terrible, because all the characters that contact him are driven to perdition. And “Perdition”* is the film –noir among noir- I pay tribute to with this.
Juan and Mr Berenguer meet in a Museum in Valencia to plan a killing. Juan tells his lover that, after doing it, they shall not meet for a while. With the naiveté particular of manipulated lovers, Mr Berenguer thought the killing would bind them together forever, but it is too late now to avoid the separation.
This sequence makes reference (and reverence) to the supermarket sequence in “Double Indemnity”. Even though I’m not particularly fond of it, I’m aware that no colored film can match the image of Barbara Stanwyck with blond wavy wig, large black sunglasses and surrounded by mountains of grocery cans, everything in glorious black and white (Fred McMurray included).

Q- How is working with Gael?
A- Very stimulating and hard, for sure. Playing a role that splits into three characters is not easy, mainly when two of them are physically opposites. I guess this is the most difficult role Gael has interpreted so far. To the difficulty of having to change sex, without looking grotesque, you have to add the phonetic issue; I wanted him to speak Castillian...