The Spanish Academy surprised some this year when it selected Fernando León de Aranoa’s Javier Bardem-starrer “The Good Boss” (“El buen patrón”) as the country’s submission for this year’s Best Int…
nominations by a film, earning 20 nods in 17 categories. In the end, decision had to be made, and “The Good Boss” was the Academy’s choice.
“I remember when I first proposed the character of Santa in ‘Mondays’ and after a few early conversations he asked me if I would mind if he recorded our work conversations,” León recalled of their first interactions and Bardem’s impressive attention to detail. According to León, the actor had around a dozen blank cassette tapes ready to capture every word León shared.
“I always believed Javier was a possibility, but as a screenwriter when I start writing I try not to think about possible actors because, practically, there are times when you write a part for someone and then they don’t do the movie for whatever reason,” he explained. “But more importantly I think when you’re writing with someone in mind it becomes too easy to write things that you know the actor does well rather than what the character would do in that situation.
León explained that, “The film’s other characters were created as foils to Blanco, but as people whom he doesn’t view as true rivals. They are characters he thinks he can handle easily: a woman who works at a supermarket, a blue-collar immigrant delivery driver, a young intern. But everyone stands up to him and says “no,” and that generates an increasing frustration on his part.”Importantly though, that dynamic “also generates empathy.
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