Thread: MEXICAN ACTRESS SUPPORTS ILLEGALS WITH HER U.S. MOVIES

Another SOB story in support of ILLEGALS and against United States Citizens from Hollywood with real ILLEGALS in leading parts!.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/5630628.html


March 18, 2008, 6:02PM
Crossing borders
Kate del Castillo identifies with Under the Same Moon character


By ERIC HARRISON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle


Kate del Castillo, a 35-year-old Mexican-born actress, is starring in her first American movie — a touching drama titled Under the Same Moon that opens today — but del Castillo is already a star in this country.

For the past 10 years she has starred in Mexican telenovelas, serial soap operas that are extremely popular all over the world.

On a recent four-city publicity tour to promote her film — Houston, Miami, New York and Los Angeles — she found fans wherever she went.

In a Q&A after a Houston screening, a fan remembered the name of the first character del Castillo played in a soap opera.

"I didn't even remember that," del Castillo said.

Especially for Latin American immigrants, telenovelas hold a special place because they are a link to their native country, she said.

Immigration is a theme of Under the Same Moon, though saying that makes the movie sound dryly political. By turns funny, gripping and moving, the film is anything but that.

"I think it's about love between a mom and her son — the most pure love that there is," del Castillo said of the movie.

She plays a single mother from Mexico who leaves her son at home to come to the United States illegally to work. She does it out of love, so she can send money back home to her son and her mother, who cares for him.

The 9-year-old boy, however, feels abandoned.

When tragedy strikes, he sets out alone to search for his mother.

Along the way he meets up with an illegal laborer who initially wants nothing to do with the child. He's played by Eugenio Derbez, a well-known Mexican comedian with fans throughout Latin America.

America Ferrera, the star of Ugly Betty, has a small but pivotal role as an unlikely (and very scared) would-be smuggler. Los Tigres del Norte, the popular norteño band, also appears in the film and contributed to the soundtrack.

Del Castillo began her acting career at the age of 9. She played in several direct-to-video movies before she began the string of telenovela roles. She did nine 120-episode series.

She may also be familiar to American audiences from her role in American Family, the 2002 PBS series that starred Edward James Olmos.

More recently, del Castillo has embarked on an international career. She recently did a movie in Chile.

Also, she went to the Berlin Film Festival last month to promote Julia, a drama set in the U.S. and Mexico that co-stars Tilda Swinton and Saul Rubinek and was directed by Erik Zonca, the French director best known for The Dreamlife of Angels.

Del Castillo, who skydives, scuba dives, climbs mountains and did her own stunts in the telenovelas, said she'd love to do action movies.

"I did one, but it's not out yet, called Bad Guys. It's gonna come out, I think, this year. ... It's action, action, action. It's a lot of fun."

Del Castillo plays a Mexican-American lawyer in it. She worked to eliminate her accent for the role.

"I think it came out pretty good," she said. "Not perfect."

Stars like Salma Hayak don't have to worry much about speaking with an accent, she says.

"She's already Salma Hayak. Same as Penelope (Cruz). They're big, and they still work anyway. For me it's harder because nobody (in the industry) knows me here. So I really need to work on it so I will be able to portray different roles, not only the stereotype of a Mexican or Spanish."

Del Castillo moved to the United States two years ago after spending five years traveling back and forth between the two countries.

Though her experience is nothing like that of the illegal immigrant she plays in Under the Same Moon, she says she can relate to her character's plight. Del Castillo, director Patricia Riggen and screenwriter Ligiah Villalobos all are Mexican-born immigrants.

"I'm legal, but it's a (similar) struggle in a way because we come here to try to find a better life or to seek our dreams," del Castillo said.

"We shouldn't in the first place, we shouldn't be trying to leave our country like that," she added, quietly. "That's the sad part about it. But we're all here for the same reason, and it's work and love."

She can relate to the people who come here illegally, she said, because they tell her their stories.

"I hear their stories every single day (because of) all the Latin people that know me — the valet parkers, the cooks, the waitresses, everyone. They tell me all these stories that are so devastating, how they struggle every single day and how they are sacrificing.

"That's the premise of the movie that I like: You are here because you're trying to give your son a better life, but at the same time you're sacrificing him and your love for him, and he just has knowledge that you left him. He doesn't understand why. He's just unhappy.

"So, yes, I do relate. I try always to hear these stories. This is one story among millions."

eric.harrison@chron.com

There's a movie and an "actress" I will not go see, nor see any of her movies. She is now on my Hanoi Janie Fonda list.

Everything that enters your eyes and ears are meant for digestion.

Hollywood has their viewers hood winked. Good, bad, indifferent. Hollywood has won the mind. No need to think, just watch TV, and you will know. The boob tube is a mild term, slightly humorous, perhaps idiot box would be more to the point.

People like to portray all illegal aliens as these hard working people who only come here for a job and a better life. Why don't they ever mention the damage they are doing to this country. Hospitals closing down because to many illegals use the emergency room as their hospital, our schools overburdened because of all the children of illegals, our social security system abused because of illegal's our economy in a complete mess because of all the forclosures and meanwhile they are supposed to be good for our economy. The loss of american jobs that they took. I would like to see them boycott in their OWN country and see what happens to them. I have absolutely no sympathy for them whatsoever. I feel for all the american citizens that were harmed in any way because of them.

Here is the real story with Kate Del Castillo and even Salma Hayek. Any Latin American actor, singer or famous person (rich) can pretty much get a artist's visa to come to the United States. Catholic priests can get a legal visa as well. Very few questions asked. I did hear of a minor Colombian actress who was rejected in October.

Remember UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO and TV AZTECA that now broadcast to the growing ILLEGAL Hispanic community? Well, they now are filming the soaps in south Florida so hence the visas. You decide whether it is good or not?

BTW Kate del Castillo's father Eric, was involved in advertising a "...Amazon miracle cure on Spanish television..." A fraudulent product although no one was tried or anything. Anything for a $.

Just like Hollywood, the Hispanic actors and singers form little cliques. Same family memebers etc. It is an industry. They live well in Latin America but can make a fortune if they can get to the status of say Salma Hayek or Enrique Iglesias. The bands from Mexico can charge 3 or 4 times more HERE than in Mexico and I hope the IRS is all over them to make sure they pay their TAXES!

One Mexican singer who is here is the infamous Gloria Trevi.....the Mexican singer whose 30 day old baby died in Brazil while she was on the run from Interpol. Why did our State Department let her into the United States when she has not answered to anybody as to what happened with this baby? They could have denied her a visa from my perspective.

Anyway, why would you be surpried if illegals are in these soaps? AN ILLEGAL COUPLE BOUGHT THE HOUSE A FEW DOORS DOWN FROM US LOL!

HHMMMM?

Selma Hyak looks like an escaped warthog.
I am going to boycott this foolish movie and encourage everyone I know not to see it either. It funny the way they never make movies about American families who have suffered at the hands of illegal immigrants.

Boycott Hollwood. Money talks. Do you really need them? Turn off the idiot box. Think about it, do you really think we have gotten to this point on our own?