Dua Lipa It is much more than one of the great pop artists that sweeps the zeta generation. The singer is an icon for the new generations and everything she does and promotes goes viral. Just a few weeks ago, he made several headlines for his famous Service95 book clubin which recommended The bad habitthe first novel by the Spanish author Alana S. Porter.
The writer and performer of Houdini coincided in person in Madrid thanks to himself Pedro Almodovar. It was the filmmaker who recommended the novel to her and Lipa did not hesitate to sink her teeth into it. “If Pedro likes it, I have to read it,” he said about how the work came into his hands. The three (author, filmmaker and singer) managed to meet this summer in Madrid when Dua visited the capital to perform at the Mad Cool festival.
Dua Lipa, Pedro and Alana S. Portero. pic.twitter.com/8hmNcTKKjb
— Agustín Almodóvar (@AgustinAlmo) July 10, 2024
Surely thanks to that meeting (and all those who have come after), today we can talk again about Dua Lipa and Pedro Almodóvar in the same text. The filmmaker has mentioned it again, this time in an interview with the magazine Frameswhere she has managed to capture the attention of all the fans, and not so fans, of the artist.
“I want to see her talent as an actress”
In the midst of promoting The next roomthe new feature film that led him to win the Golden Lion for best film in VeniceAlmodóvar has also had time to talk about the interpreter of Levitating. “I have a fluid relationship with Dua because he loves Spain and wants to come live in Madrid, so when he comes we see each other. She is a very special girl, she is a superstar, she fills stadiums when she gives concerts, but then, for example, she recommends books,” he points out in his interview for the popular film magazine.
The Calzada de Calatrava filmmaker does not hesitate to share his intention to work with the singer on one of his future projects: “I have to check [cómo trabaja]”What happens is that I prefer to do this ‘check’ through a film where I see her talents as an actress.”
The director even confesses that he considered giving him the role he finally plays Victoria Luengo in his latest feature film. “[Dua Lipa] corresponds with everything I ask of an actress. I would love to work with her and we’ll see if we find the right vehicle,” he says.
Until now, the singer of Albanian origin has barely participated in the seventh art. He had a small cameo in Barbiethe 2023 blockbuster and film phenomenon, and a brief but important character in the spy movie Argylle. What if your first big foray into film involves becoming a Almodóvar girl?
Well, we can now make it public: Pedro has chosen Dua Lipa Manchega of the Year. pic.twitter.com/Jfa9t9s3EY
— Agustín Almodóvar (@AgustinAlmo) January 14, 2023
The concept of the Almodóvar girl
Since his career began in the middle of the Madrid scene From the late 70s, the woman figure He has had a key role in Pedro Almodóvar’s films. They have been the protagonists of some of their most recognized films that today are the history of our cinema. It is the case of Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls of the bunch (1980), Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988), All about my mother (1999), Return (2006) or The skin I live in (2011), among many others.
The women protagonists of these films soon received the name Almodóvar girls, a kind of label to talk about the muses of the filmmaker from La Mancha. We talk about women with strong, independent and transgressive characterbut also from different women.
If the director has been able to do something well in his films, it is to reflect how society changes, and with it the shape and personality of its protagonists. They have become the director’s great vehicle to talk about topics such as sexualitythe maternity wave gender violence. Also of the importance of friendshipthe solidarity and the support between women. The background is usually the same: show the complexity of female identity.
In the words of its creator
To achieve his goal, the filmmaker has worked with some of the most important actresses in our country. Today one cannot talk about the concept of the Almodóvar girl without mentioning Carmen Maura, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Bibiana Fernandez, Penelope Cruz, Victoria April, Rossy de Palma, Veronica Forqué either Julieta Serrano.
The great Carmen Maura, one of the best Spanish actresses in history and officially the first “Almodóvar girl”, turns 77 today.
This woman holds the record (4) for the number of Goyas won (along with Verónica Forqué).
Living legend of Spanish cinema. pic.twitter.com/hOBeUdNWWZ
— #WhyTT (@xqTTs) September 15, 2022
But what do they all have in common? “In addition to excellence, all of them are endowed with a great sense of humor, absence of moral, aesthetic or professional prejudices and all of them are capable of mixing comedy and drama without apparent effort and in an innate way, there are no schools for this, whether one has it or not. has. Each one at the time was the best vehicle for the passionate female characters I wrote, very free women, fighters and with great moral autonomy“said the director himself in a article for the newspaper The Country.
The text, written in 2015, is still valid nearly ten years after its publication. “In addition to these characteristics, to be an Almodóvar girl you have to be generous, not have fear or reverential respect, be willing to learn the dialogues five minutes before shooting and rehearse everything,” the filmmaker concluded then.
A new generation
Now a new generation of actresses takes over from those who were once pioneers. Among them are the already almodovarian Tilda Swinton and Julianne Mooreprotagonists of The next roomAlmodóvar’s latest work and his first feature film shot entirely in English.
How much Julianne enjoys being an Almodóvar girl made me faint pic.twitter.com/78MTCT0PJs
— the Valen papers (@StarcoVision) October 20, 2024
But the Almodóvar girls will continue to arrive, evolve and grow as long as the filmmaker continues to create. Hopefully it will be for many more years.
#Dua #Lipa #future #Almodóvar #girl
