Turns out Glenn Close didn’t speak a lick of Spanish before she had to play a fluent Spanish speaker in LA BOLA NEGRA. Still, “It’s not in my nature to say, ‘No, I can’t do that,’” she told me. She spent hours every day on the HUNGER GAMES set (in full wild makeup) taking lessons
“In the middle of shooting, we were like, we have to finish this relationship. We were ready for LA BOLA NEGRA to be our last movie.”
My final New York Times profile is of Los Javis, who broke up while directing the film poised to be their Oscar breakthrough. But then…