The actresses Leonor Watling and Maribel Verdú have shown this Wednesday a certainty and a mystery. The certainty is that they get along wonderfully and that they will show off their good vibes at the Goya gala on February 8. The mystery is that they have promised spectacular surprises, without revealing anything else.
Accompanied by him president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez Leite, and by the scriptwriters of the ceremony, Laura Márquez and Paloma Rando, The presenters have appeared before the media to warm up the engines of the event that will consecrate the most important films and professionals in Spanish cinema during 2024.
The candidatures are of category, as the actresses have agreed, and more in such a fruitful year as Maribel Verdú has emphasized, since they have 335 movies, among which he has valued those that deal with “the right to a dignified death.”
“2024 has been a wonderful and varied year, so I invite everyone, to criticize the gala, which “Go watch all the movies and do like you do with soccer games,” added Leonor Watling.
The two actresses have spoken precisely about the criticism, aware and convinced that there will be criticism the next day. “Did you know is to present the Goya and have them fall on you everywhere, This must be assumed. I will do it with all the love and all the respect, so above all what I’m going to do is enjoy,” said Verdú.
Watling has delved into this: “As we are not talking about military landings or national budgets, This is an honor, a great gift, and I think it’s very nice to be one of the people who will be taking care of the nominees, who are the ones who will really be nervous.
They do not expect political acrimony despite the context that the world is going through, which is “to cry about,” Watling said.
Humor and celebration in Granada
About what will happen during the Goya awards gala, which This year it will take place in Granada, They have said little, if not nothing, except that there will be an emotional moment for one of the great ladies of Spanish cinema who recently passed away: Marisa Paredes.
What that moment will consist of is not known, nor is the identity of musical groups or artists, one of the aspects that journalists have asked about the most. There will be “spectacular” performances, the presenters have commented.
What has become clear is that both they and the scriptwriters are going to try make the most of harmony, sympathy and good vibes that the two actresses profess.
Watling, who has been nominated twice for the Goya (although he has not won any yet), he has confessed that two years ago, in an interview, he said that he would like to work with Maribel Verdú. The wish has come true because both presenters are already working on the ceremony.
Of both, Verdú has stood out, two Goyas to his credit for ‘Seven French Billiard Tables’ and for ‘Snow White’: “We know the bad things in life, so we are going to enjoy this. “We like to have fun, to joke, and we want to use that sense of humor that we have,” has stressed.
Watling lacks experience as a driver, but not Verdú, who recalled that 20 years ago he presented the gala together with Antonio Resines and Montserrat Caballé.
Four women as authors
It will be the first time, in Granada, that two women guide the ceremony and two women be its scriptwriters.
Watling has framed the novelty in normality: “When I read that this is exceptional, I expect something very crazy, as if they were, I don’t know, two mice, but “There are two actresses and two screenwriters, it’s not something so out of the ordinary.”
