Before debuting in the second season of ‘El internado: Las Cumbres’, Clara Galle (Pamplona, 2002) had become known for being the girl with the ‘Red Heels’ in Sebastián Yatra’s video clip. He then starred on Netflix in the saga ‘Through my window’ and the series ‘Ni una más’, which will be followed next year by the new fiction from the producers of ‘Elite’, ‘Olympo’. But first she has become the Spanish representative of the third and final season of the thriller ‘The Head’, produced by The Mediapro Studio, which has just arrived at Max.
‘The Head’ has, as in previous seasons, an international cast. How has it been filming in English?
Very good. I was lucky that my parents, who don’t speak English, enrolled me in an academy when I was 5 years old because they thought it was very important for me. I fell in love with the language and continued studying it for a long time. Furthermore, I have always liked cinema and I have seen it in its original version. So I get along well.
His character is one of the guinea pigs of a scientific experiment outside the law. What did you like about him?
I liked that it had nothing to do with me, except that slightly crazy thing that he has and that we all get in small doses. I have always been very struck by those people who take so many risks in life and don’t care about the consequences, because I think they usually have a pretty harsh background behind them. I was interested in the idea of discovering that ‘background’. I also like all the gore and action in the series, I would love to repeat it in other projects.
They usually give characters of girls who are very forward.
Yes. I have always had characters of very determined women, who do not give up, some more mature, others more adolescent, others more unconscious… I have discovered that a forward-thinking girl can be in a thousand different ways. I like it a lot, because that is a part of me that I have in common with all the characters I have played. Let’s see when I have to play a slightly cowardly character!
Did you work knowing from the beginning who was behind the deaths that occur in the series?
Yes, we had the complete script. But when I read it I changed the murderer five times, I didn’t know who it was. In fact, I didn’t get it right.
Do you take the characters home or do you find it easy to disconnect when filming is over?
I had always thought I knew how to disconnect, but lately I realized that no, something is sticking with me. I recently came home and I was like super emotional, super sensitive and I didn’t understand why. Until I realized that that day I had shot a super strong scene and it was normal that something would have remained, because the body has memory. No matter how much you tell the brain that you are no longer there, the body has received that stimulus. Furthermore, I work a lot from a personal perspective, although later on set I transform that experience and bring it closer to the character. Empathy is where I find the purest weapons to be able to interpret.
Are you affected by the instability associated with your job?
I have been very lucky, because I have never done a project without knowing that I was going to start another one later. I know that is a privilege and that few people can say it. I remind myself that at some point that will stop happening, so questions and self-doubt will appear, which is what happens when uncertainty hits. But I also like many other things: writing, I’m still studying my degree at university…
Study art.
Yes, art history. So I have things to hold on to and, furthermore, I really like living. My work is based on reality, so I travel, I meet people, because what am I going to base myself on when I have to interpret if I have not had personal experiences? At some point I have to stop working to have fun, to suffer, to cry, and then be able to connect with a script when I read it and have to interpret it.
He says he likes to write. Are you considering writing a script?
I’d love to. It is something that is done a lot in the American industry, that many actors are then producers and scriptwriters and develop their ideas. I think that in Spain there has not yet been that ‘boom’, like what Mario Casas has done with ‘My loneliness has wings’. In every project I do I meet people with whom I want to repeat and with whom I come up with ideas to develop.
What kind of story would it make?
I like all genres but what catches my attention the most are everyday stories, real, simple stories, but when brought to the screen you realize how great they are. That’s what I would like to tell you.
