| Elena Anaya becomes Cervantes and Shakespeare's object of desire. 01-04-06 Palentine actress Elena Anaya, one of the most exciting females in the Spanish movie market (that's why Hollywood chose her to be one of Dracula's brides in "Van Helsing"), will be the object of desire of two great European writers, the British William Shakespeare and the Spanish Miguel de Cervantes, reunited thanks to the imagination of Ines París in "Miguel and William", according to Variety this Wednesday. The cast for this creative love comedy - in the line of "Shakespeare in Love" - plays with reality and fiction to provoke the improbable fight for a woman between two of the most classical authors of the Hispanic and English literature. Respectively, the cast compliments itself with Will Kemp, an attractive but little known British actor that has worked with Anaya before in "Van Helsing" (where he played the werewolf) as Shakespeare, Geraldine Chaplin, and Juan Luis Gallardo, in the role of Cervantes. According to what producer Antonio Saura has said to Variety, "Miguel and William" will be "a romantic comedy that speculates what happened with a young Shakespeare in the four years where no one knew his whereabouts." Inés París explained in May of last year that the script narrates how Shakespeare, "a young and vivid man, travels to Spain "in search of a woman, Leonor, the daughter of the Spanish ambassador in London, who goes back to her country to marry a Duke". There she finds Cervantes, "a writer in crisis that doesn't want to write anymore". The main original female role was going to be played by Leonor Watling, and it was said that Shakespeare could have been played by a first level British actor (Hugh Grant, Joseph Fiennes and Orlando Bloom were named). Elena Anaya, who turned 30 last summer, has worked with great Spanish directors such as Medem, Almodóvar and Díaz Yanes. She has not only worked in foreign films such as "Van Helsing" and "Dead Fish", but can claim a dual career inside and outside her country. She has three new movies coming out this year, "Alatriste", "In the Land of Women" and "Stage Kiss". Filming of "Miguel and William", both in Spanish and English, will take place in Castilla La Mancha at the end of February with a budget of almost 10 million euros. © Redacción-NOTICINE.com As translated by 'Mariela' --- thanks!! |