Edgar Ramirez sobre 'Carlos'

Edgar Ramirez, el actor que personifica a Carlos, el Chacal; habla sobre su experiencia en la filmación. “Tienes que dejar todos tus prejuicios, emociones y conceptos para abrazar tu personaje”, dice Edgar en parte de la entrevista, en inglés.

Carlos es un film del 2010 sobre el terrorista venezolano…

Ramírez Sánchez vio algunos pasajes y su abogado amenazó con iniciar acciones legales con el argumento que podía perjudicar futuros juicios…

… estaba descontento especialmente con la escena de un grupo de hombres histéricos portando ametralladora. “No pasó así. Ellos eran profesionales, comandos de muy alto nivel...”

… él estaba bastante convencido de lo que hacía, de querer cambiar el mundo y era importante para él que la gente lo conociera…

… es un film donde la política es parte de la historia. Los personajes giran alrededor de la política…

Carlos, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a 2010 French-German biographical film/miniseries about the life of the 1970s Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez), covering his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994.

Carlos, the movie

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the real-life "Carlos", saw extracts of the film and his lawyer threatened legal action to prevent its general release, arguing that it could prejudice future trial hearings for Carlos who faces trial for at least four more attacks in France. He read the screenplay and criticized it for its "deliberate falsifications of history, and lies". He was specifically unhappy with a sequence depicting a hostage-taking by his gang at the 1975 OPEC conference in Vienna and how his methods were depicted: "Showing hysterical men waving submachine guns and threatening people is completely ridiculous," he insisted. "Things didn't happen like that. These were professionals, commandos of a very high standard".

Édgar Ramírez on 'Carlos'

Venezuelan actor Édgar Ramírez talks about the movie 'Carlos', in which he portrays the notorious international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

—Carlos is a person that you can like or not but as an actor did you come to like him?

—You have to. I mean you have to connect to your character. There´s no other way for me to portray a character and that´s why this process can be painful. It can be difficult because you have to give up all your prejudices and you have to give up all your emotions and conceptions about the world in order to embrace those of your character. But that´s the way to go. You have to try to find ways to connect to him, to build bridges and try to understand him although your stance in many ways. I mean whether it´s political or ideological could be on the other side of the spectrum… (From 2, 20)

—The celebrity angle on this is a key part. Is it related to you?

—The notoriety for me is a consequence of my job. The things that I do that are going to be seen, hopefully, by many people and then you become notorious. That is part of the job. But it is not a goal. It is a consequence. I think that for Carlos it was a goal. He was like carrying out the revolution and he might be pretty much convinced about the things that he wanted to change the world. The fact that people would know about him was very important to him. I mean for him was very important to be recognized and to be famous and what he was doing and what was behind. That would be the biggest difference… (From 4, 38)

—Would you describe this as a political film?

—No, I think it´s a personal movie about politics. I think it´s a movie where politics are part of the story. The characters orbit around politics but it´s not a political movie because there is not an agenda behind this movie. It´s not even a movie on terrorism, It´s a movie about a guy who happened to be working or whose world was the world of terrorism. It´s a movie about all the human experiences… (From minute 5)

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