| http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpcinpor/20060224elpepicin_14/Tes/cine/Duelo/literatos/Miguel/William Translated article from website above : Literature duel in “Miguel & William” The film, which starts filming in March, will entwine the lives of Cervantes and Shakespeare VIRGINIA COLLERA - Madrid EL PAÍS - 24-02-2006 |
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| De izquierda a derecha Will Kemp, Elena Anaya y Juan Luis Galiardo, en Madrid. (Foto: LUIS MAGÁN) |
| In 1590 William Shakespeare disappears from England. Historians find his reappearance in 1592. Director and screenwriter Inés París makes use of this gap in the writer’s biography to recreate an encounter with an uninspired Miguel de Cervantes. In the story, both authors, played by British actor Will Kemp and Spanish Juan Luis Galiardo – who is also a producer for this movie – fall in love with the same woman: Leonor de Vibero (Elena Anaya). This kind, fanciful and provocative woman decides to fuse the talent of both writers in a unique play. Her attempt will fail, but instead she will become their muse and enrich their respective creative universes. Later, Cervantes would write Don Quixote and Shakespeare his greatest tragedies: Hamlet, Othello and King Lear. To this geniuses’ duel add a jealous husband (Jose María Pou), two greedy daughters (Malena Alterio and Miriam Giovanelli) and an accomplice maid (Geraldine Chaplin). Miguel & William is an English – Spanish production that will start filming in English and Spanish in March. This project is kept apart from other works done for The Quixote Centennial and its main aim is to entertain. ‘It’s not dull, it’s a fun and romantic comedy’, its director reassured journalists yesterday. Miguel & William will be released in early 2007. © Diario EL PAÍS S.L. ************************************ |
| http://actualidad.terra.es/cultura/articulo/galiardo_kemp_elena_anaya_miguel_751373.htm Translated article from website above: Galiardo, Kemp and Elena Anaya star in “Miguel & William” Juan Luis Galiardo, as Cervantes; Will Kemp, as Shakespeare; and Elena Anaya, as Leonor – a very coquettish and sensual young woman whom both literary geniuses will fight over- will star in ‘Miguel& William’, a ‘romantic comedy’, directed by Inés París, which will start filming in two weeks. All of them, along with other actors participating in the movie, like Geraldine Chaplin, presented today in Madrid the start of the filming process that will recreate a hypothetical meeting between both writers and ‘maybe could give details to a classic historical mystery’, according to Inés París, co-director with Daniela Fejerman, of ‘My mother likes women’ or ‘Semen, a love story’. The movie, which has a budget of seven million euro, will narrate a fiction that starts from true facts: in 1590 William Shakespeare, at that time ‘a free young writer’, according to the director, disappeared from England and didn’t come back until two years later, to write his greatest tragedies, like ‘Hamlet’ or ‘King Lear’. During that time Cervantes, twenty years older than him, was an unsuccessful writer who made a living out of collecting taxes, a situation that mysteriously changed due to a new inspiration that pushed him to write ‘Don Quixote’. ‘Miguel & William’, that starts from an idea that Juan Luis Galiardo ‘kept from a long time ago’, according to producer Antonio Saura, tells, in a ‘very funny romantic comedy’ that both writers went crazy over the same woman, Leonor de Vibero, the daughter of a Spanish merchant living in England. There Shakespeare will fall in love with her, then follows her to Spain, where she meets Cervantes. The difficulties with the young woman’s wedding, ‘a fashion girl’ from the XVI century, as the movie director described, will work lead both writers, that fight for her love, to unite their quills and swords. All actors were very enthusiastic today about this project, a movie aimed at all audiences. For Elena Anaya (‘Sex and Lucía’, ‘Dead Fish’), Leonor is ‘one of those roles you dream about’, while Galiardo, who is also a producer for this movie, explained that after playing Don Quixote ‘one thinks that you have reached the top’, an idea that led to this script which ‘will demystify history’. Will Kemp (‘Van Helsing’, ‘Mindhunters’) is a very curious coincidence because, as the director says, Shakespeare’s favourite actor was Will Kempe and was like him, a dancer. ‘A comedy finally’, Geraldine Chaplin commented about her role in this movie, in which she will play La Dueña, who accompanies Leonor and keeps her schemes from being discovered. ‘I’m in seventh heaven by doing this impertinent script’ she added, together with the rest of the cast like Manela Alterio, or the young Miriam Giovanelli, 17. Inés París will make a ‘free, funnier and more up to date version’ of the dressing style and character attitudes. ‘Be ready if you believed that the XVI century was boring’, she reassured yesterday after commenting on having taken all the liberties she wanted with the story as presenting Cervantes with a pony tail. Toledo, Huesca and Madrid are the chosen cities for this production that is scheduled to be released in early 2007 and that has the Castilla-La Mancha council and Warner among its producers. Galiardo explained that this project has been intentionally set apart from the rest of other productions made for last year’s IV Centennial commemoration of ‘Don Quixote’ first edition because ‘it has a relative vocation’ and because everybody involved in the project is sure that the movie will do ‘a good business’ and not need extra financial support. Terra Actualidad – EFE © Copyright 2005, Terra Networks, S.A ************************************************* |
| http://www.diariosigloxxi.com/noticia.php?ts=20060223175410 Translated article from website above: Comedy and fantasy are together in the film ‘Miguel & William’ Press / EP Did William Shakespeare and Miguel Cervantes meet? Is it true that because of that friendship both writers came up with their greatest works ever? Did they fight over the same woman? These are only some of the questions that the movie ‘Miguel & William’ intends to answer, the first film that Inés París directs all by herself. This baroque comedy, which will be filmed in both English and Spanish, will mix fantasy and reality. Elena Anaya, Juan Luis Galiardo, Will Kemp, Geraldine Chaplin and Malena Alterio star in it. París explained at a press conference held today that the script, which she wrote herself, came out from an original idea by Tirso Calero and Miguel Angel Gómez. It’s ‘a fantasy’ about an encounter between these two great literary geniuses and how the love of a woman and the months lived together in Spain changed the course of their literary paths. ‘It will be a very romantic comedy, with a love story about Leonor (Anaya), a coquette and provocative young woman”, explained París, stating that this film tries to bring out what Shakespeare did when he disappeared around 1590. Where did he go? París believes he went to Spain, where he met Cervantes, 20 years older than him and, by then, Cervantes is reborn after his meeting with the English writer. IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF A WOMAN The detonator of this creative explosion for both writers (played by Galiardo and the English actor), according to París, was a woman: Leonor (Anaya). ‘It is possible that what is told in the movie actually happened’. She emphasises on the fact that Shakespeare did speak Spanish, read Cervantes, and before he died he wrote a theatrical piece about Don Quixote. On the other hand, Cervantes “never mentioned the enemy, England, in his novels. And he wrote ‘La española inglesa’. The point is that this movie, which will be filmed in Toledo, Madrid, Huesca, Ciudad Real and Extremadura, will have a ‘historic mystery’. ‘It’s a movie about the importance of creativity and imagination that takes over hostile reality’, said the director, about a film that claims to ‘sing for freedom and imagination’. París, who usually works with Daniela Fajerman (they co-directed ‘Semen’ and ‘My mother likes women’) but not in this film, added that ‘liberties of all kinds’ will be taken to offer a ‘more actualized and free version, not boring at all’. In short, ‘a disobedient vision of the time’. The movie will be filmed in English and Spanish to ‘respect the game rules’ of the project, which starts in England, with the meeting of Shakespeare and Leonor. Then she travels to Spain and the English writer follows her. A SPOILED GIRL The cast was very happy to participate in this project. Anaya said that her character will evolve in the movie from ‘spoiled girl to a woman who discovers the worth of freedom and other values’. William Kemp emphasized the script being ‘magnificent’. To Galiardo, co-producer of the film with Antonio Saura, playing Cervantes after having been under Quixote’s skin is ‘the top of everything, a complete feeling’. ‘It’s an important undertaking’, said the actor, stating that this romantic comedy, ‘where love is made a lot, demystifies history and gives fiction a chance’. © 2003 Diariosigloxxi.com |
| **A million and one thanks to Mariela who translated all these articles for willkemp.org. |