The debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal – The País.com (Spain)

The migration of the actresses from film to television continues. One of the latest signings was Maggie Gyllenhaal. His debut in this medium has come thanks to the mini-series The Honourable Woman that is broadcasting in Spain Canal + Series. “I do think that what he was doing was television. In its content, its cadence, even filming, it was like a movie, but eight hours, “says El Pais. Its television premiere series has arrived with Hugo Blick, a spy story whose backdrop of tensions between Israel and the occupied territories.

Not that the queen of independent film had special desire to do television. She wanted to make good movies. And despite an Oscar nomination for Heart rebellious , or perhaps because of him, Gyllenhaal laments the poor quality of the papers received, a litany of “mothers single good looking “that recur in the scripts that come to your table. Until I started reading The Honourable Woman. “It was a story of a real woman, aged 36, my age. And mother, like me. A woman with her loneliness, her attractiveness or lack thereof. The opportunity to show a woman in full “, describes the interpreter. While the public may remember his face from The Dark Knight was released with as complicated as in independent films like Secretary or Hysteria papers. And, as she points out, Blick chose The Honourable Woman “an incredibly difficult issue to resolve”

The eight chapters were filmed between UK and Morocco

aware and always willing to speak his mind, this time Gyllenhaal prefers not to go beyond. “I do not want to be summarized in one or two sentences the complexity of this story.” Nor does anyone want to be deceived. The Honourable Woman is a fictional story a Thriller in which espionage, carrying the contrary to the rules of the genre, there are more women than men. But the military confrontation in recent months in Gaza, coinciding with the start of this co-production in the USA, made of The Honourable Woman a more current story. “I learned a lot from that region and my heart is shattered after what happened, but all I think and hope that art can do something for reconciliation, let talk about it and open a door of hope.”

Filmed in London and Morocco, the series was also a personal challenge. In fact, the actress, mother of two girls, was about to say no. The shoot required her to four months away from his home in New York. All facilities were: by the production, which put her house in London and family; her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard, who insisted that he could not pass up the paper, and even his mother, who was left with her two daughters.

Is aware that their work was not no movies or television, shooting eight episodes while under the sole direction of its writer and showrunner. “It had nothing to do with the typical film set where you know that three-quarters the hero of the film will live the crucial moment, until he releases a tear, and will face his antagonist, “recites some boring topics. But know that this was an unusual job and why is not changing medium. “One thing was to make The Honourable Woman and another that sees me reading the script for one episode of a series and firm for seven years. That’m not so sure, “Caveat on a medium that has a lot to change before it becomes the new home for this independent actress.