New Casas Grandes.—First actor Alejandro Tommasi went out of his way to praise the magical city of Casas Grandes, recounting the pleasant experience he had on his journey to this country and his surprise at finding a place that preserves its history in its facades and its streets, as well as the mysticism that the horror film “Manos Brujas” demands, in which it began its performances.
“When people see the film, they’re going to want to know Casas Grandes because it has this mysterious and charming atmosphere, in addition to the fact that the story pulls you in: that’s what I liked about this project and why I did it embraced it when I read Roberto Cué’s script while I was in Mexico City,” said the 65-year-old actor, who has been an actor for 45 years and is one of the most established in Mexico.
Interviewed exclusively for El Diario, Alejandro Tommasi shared some of his anecdotes as an actor and his experiences in this new production, clarifying that this was his first visit to Casas Grandes, but he had nothing but praise when describing his experience, here to be in a place designated as one of the three magical cities in the state of Chihuahua.
His character in “Manos Brujas”, Father Ubaldini, is a priest who goes beyond the conventional when it comes to the strict rules of the religion and makes it clear that there will be no exorcisms in his role, but that his character will be of great importance to the development will be this story.
Tommasi told the first anecdote of the circumstances that brought him to Casas Grandes, as he already had a project for a film set in the Sierra Tarahumara, but he thought he would become a priest, a missionary or something that they made clear to him that he would play one of the characters of the Rarámuri ethnic group, which he openly refused due to his characteristics, which would be detrimental to the overall credibility of the film and his own interpretation.
After turning down the role, he said that he could not review Roberto Cué’s script for the film Manos Brujas because he had traveled to New York and on his return to Mexico City to continue working on the play “La Dama de Negro” has been on stage for 29 years and in which Tomassi has been working for 25 years, realizing that he had Covid-19 and had to rest because “he was feeling very bad”.
Because the film is being shot very quickly, as it already has all the necessary sets in the natural settings of Casas Grandes, Tommasi is finishing his showing this week and returning to Mexico City to join the play, which has been running for more than 3,500 times the stage.
The first actor to be introduced at a press conference yesterday along with some of his fellow cast members of Manos Brujas hopes this film will hit theaters soon because unlike other projects he has seen, preparations are under way who is in Casas Grandes before production very quickly and admits that in his career he has another 10 films that are still saved, the oldest is one called “The Mystery of the Island of the Dolls” which was made six years ago in another magical city was filmed. : Huachinango, Puebla, but that hasn’t hit the screens yet.