00:02Diana, you are with me only because you want to be Pimpinero.
00:06Entre other things.
00:17Welcome to Venezuela, mamacita.
00:19We are with Andy Weiss, the director of Pimpinero, Sangre & Gasolina.
00:23In addition to the director of Pimpinero and Gasolina,
00:24you also wrote the script and the co-produced.
00:27Tell me a little bit about where the idea was.
00:31I was filming a series in 2013-2014 in Palomino,
00:37in the Guajira,
00:38and I saw a series of vehicles Renault 18
00:42with very young drivers,
00:43charged gasoline at all speed,
00:45and I asked a friend of the area,
00:49what is this?
00:50They told me,
00:50this is a caravan of the death,
00:52the gasolina that comes from Venezuela,
00:54and I explained the phenomenon.
00:55And that was great for us.
00:56I was like F.E. Lawrence,
00:56said that there is a girl,
00:57that is a dangerous work and the scene is in a movement.
01:02And that was in 2014,
01:04diez years later,
01:05you find the film Arsenic,
01:06but into many times of writing,
01:10and it was until I could collaborate with Maria Camila Arias,
01:14and it was very important because with her we were able to bring humanity to the characters,
01:19discover other characters and make the movie grow,
01:22and that it was not only the contrabando,
01:24but that it put a light on the phenomenon of what happens in that border
01:31so ebullient and so complex.
01:33I actually arrived here because the destination is as big as I am.
01:36One day I arrived at my home, I met with Cecilia and my wife,
01:40and I said, look, I just wrote a message from Andy Weiss,
01:46that if you want to act, I want to act with Andy Weiss,
01:50but it was very good, I would love it, of course,
01:52I went to the other day with Andy on FaceTime,
01:57and he said, look, you're going to make a movie,
01:58call me Pimpinero, you're going to send me a script,
02:01read it, if you like it, I would like you to have a character,
02:04he's called Moises, obviously we do casting,
02:08and if you do it, I would love to work,
02:10and I said, well, I'm also a fan of your work,
02:13I love what you do.
02:14And why not go away and start a life on another side?
02:20Tell me a little bit about your character,
02:22which is Diana, which is this woman that has,
02:24let's say, that vision of going forward,
02:27of changing the environment, of doing something different.
02:30Well, Diana is the daughter of one of the pimpineros,
02:33well, legend in this story,
02:36and also is the wife of Juan,
02:39she wants to enter this world of selling gasoline,
02:43of this contraband between Venezuela and Colombia,
02:46but they don't leave her a little,
02:49because it's not a business for women,
02:51he also wants to protect her,
02:53because it's very turbious,
02:54and it's going to happen a lot of things to enter,
02:58and it's going to discover others that they didn't have any idea,
03:01and then there begins the story of the character,
03:03that I'm not going to make a spoiler,
03:06and basically it's this fighter
03:09to break with all that they say that no,
03:12and to be able to do what they want,
03:14and much more than that.
03:16And Alejandro,
03:17and Juan,
03:18how did you form that friendship in the screen?
03:22Well,
03:22the first thing we did,
03:23we met here in Bogotá,
03:25Andy nos citó,
03:26and we lived like a month before the movie,
03:29fortunately,
03:30the click was immediately,
03:31I personally had seen a lot of the movies that they had done,
03:36Alejandro,
03:37and series,
03:37and Alberto also,
03:39and Laura also told me,
03:40I was a fan of her when I met her in person,
03:43and I had seen several of her movies,
03:45so it was very nice,
03:46I first of all,
03:48I feel a lot of admiration and respect for this profession,
03:51what they do is incredible,
03:52and how they do it also,
03:54and for Andy,
03:54imagine,
03:55when Andy was looking for this,
03:56I almost said to him,
03:57brother,
03:58make me do whatever I want to do with you,
04:00because this is a great opportunity,
04:02I like the darkness that Andy has in his movies,
04:07and that aesthetic that he handles,
04:09I mean,
04:10it caught my attention,
04:11and I don't know,
04:12I think it was something that the destiny put me there,
04:14because I didn't really look for it.
04:16It was very simple,
04:17the truth,
04:19Alberto and Juanes are two types
04:23that were willing to play the game,
04:25in the case of Juanes,
04:27that was the first time that he entered all this,
04:29he said that we were very empathetic with him,
04:31and that we didn't let him support him,
04:33but that would not serve if there was no humility that he had to do
04:37to be in the set,
04:38and to be able to listen to us,
04:41and learn to do something new for him,
04:45it was very nice to create with him,
04:46really,
04:47one of the most special things that I have brought to this,
04:50is to these wonderful human beings.
04:52The third consecutive year that I worked with Andy,
04:57we did Narcos,
04:58then we did another series that didn't come out,
04:59and now we are making Pimpineros,
05:01and just part of the process of working with Andy
05:04is something that I really like.
05:07The process of this movie,
05:09specifically with him,
05:11was unique,
05:12because I had a half year to prepare this character,
05:17that he gave me the script,
05:19when we were still doing something else,
05:22and when we were raising this movie,
05:25it was already created the universe,
05:28and we had a half year to talk about the psychology of the character,
05:32of where he came,
05:33why he did the things he did,
05:35what kind of character we wanted to create,
05:38how complex he was going to be,
05:40how far away he was going to be.
05:42It's a very complex character,
05:44it's dark, but it's not dark,
05:45but it tells many truths,
05:49but it's complicated to see if he's saying the truth or not,
05:54and that was part of what we wanted,
05:56we wanted to get a character that was difficult to read,
05:59to understand what's happening with Ulises,
06:05and at the same time that he was very empathic.
06:17You
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