Gael García Bernal (Guadalajara, 47 years old) says that to record an audio book or a radio TV series, preparing it is like preparing the stage because of the sincerity that must be conveyed with his voice. The Mexican actor arrived at the Guadalajara Book Fair (FIL), venturing into the publishing industry through the radio series Hilda Kruger: Imagination and Warwritten by David Gaytan, and audiobook by Transformation By Franz Kafka. García Bernal narrates the scripts, but also produces in an alliance between his company La Corriente del Golfo and Audible, Amazon’s audiobook platform.
Hilda Kruger: Imagination and War The film tells the story of a German actress and Nazi, sought by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who randomly arrives in Mexico in the 1930s on a mission to infiltrate the upper echelons of Mexican politics. “It’s interesting to do something about spies. This country was full of spies at that time. It was a cauldron and Mexico was a great vessel for conflict between spies,” García Bernal says in an interview with El Pais.
The actor points out that the story structure made it an ideal candidate to become a radio serial, a radio genre rarely produced in Mexico, despite the fact that it emerged with the commercialization of radio in the 20th century. García Bernal even realizes that he feels nostalgic for those productions that transport the listener with their influences to another time and place. “Radio stopped being ours,” the actor recalls. “It became more about breaking news. So we said okay, let’s explore this medium and see what happens.”
story Hilda Kruger: Imagination and War Over the course of six episodes, discover Mexico, where characters from a turbulent and warring world meet. Garcia Bernal points out that the current moment is not very far from that, although the missions of spies have now become more complex. “I miss that sense of time and place where one could gossip about things without taking advantage of one side or the other,” he points out.
García Bernal prefers reading paper books, but finds spaces in his acting invitations to listen to audio productions and “enter other worlds.” He argues that new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, will have a hard time replacing the human voice and all the emotions it conveys. in Hilda Kruger: Fantasy and War, The actor is accompanied by Ilse Salas and Poncho Herrera. in Transformation He plays Gregor Samsa in the Czech classic, alongside Mauricio Isak and Cassandra Ciangirotti.