She could be one of the most influential queens in European history, a humble cook in love with an earl, a teenager who seduces a tough police officer, and the voice of Harry Potter’s co-star. Michelle Jenner (Barcelona, ??1986) is in one of the best moments of her career: she has just released Eight Moroccan Surnames, the third installment of one of the most successful Spanish comedy films, and on December 29 she will become a professional robber. orders from Berlin, spin-off of La casa de papel, the most international Spanish series in recent years. And in February she begins her next filming. She can do everything.
In Eight Moroccan Surnames (directed by Álvaro Fernández Armero) she plays Begoña, the heiress of a traditional and prosperous Cantabrian canning business, upon whom falls an unusual last will: her father decides that she must travel to Morocco to recover the Sardinete, the first fishing boat in the company. On this mission she will be accompanied by her mother (Elena Irureta) and her ex-boyfriend (Julián López), who manages to join the expedition: three Spanish images of the Virgin in her purse, bracelet (and suspenders, socks, belt… ) with the national flag and the Spain brand as a philosophy, they will confront lifelong clichés in an unpredictable succession of entanglements.
“The film talks about prejudices and these always tend to come from the stories that we have heard since we were children: even if you have not experienced it, you grow up with it and as a result of that ignorance, the three of them are afraid of everything, even if it is absurd. Until they get there, they live together and get to know each other. We started filming in Essaouira, in Morocco, and the experience was great: everyone was very welcoming, the food was delicious, we were able to film in spectacular places like the port and the souk…”, Jenner tells La Vanguardia.
Along with the three from Cantabria is María Ramos (who plays Hamida) and a handful of local talents, among which Hamza Zaidi stands out, whom we met in the series The Prince and later we have seen in films such as The best summer of my life and As God commands. Born in Morocco but living in Spain since he was two years old, today he is a renowned influencer with three million followers on Instagram and 2.3 on Tik Tok.
Its other major premiere is the series Berlin (Netflix), based on one of the most charismatic characters from Money Heist. “It is prior to La casa de papel and contains comedy, love, thriller and action, all of the things that Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato do so well. Berlin does not yet suffer from his illness and is in love with life, with love, with theft, with living well. He’s still him, with that cynical point. We will meet his new band, which is actually his previous band. I love action!”
If Eight Moroccan Surnames places the protagonists against their prejudices, Michelle has also had to face prejudices in her career, although of a more subjective nature and, in the end, softer and with an expiration date: “I must look back. Maybe having started so young she didn’t take me seriously in some ways because she seemed very young. My opinion was not taken into account just because of my age; I am referring above all to work issues.”
A profession to which she was dedicated: daughter of Martine Husson, actress and music hall dancer, and Miguel Ángel Jenner, well-known dubbing actor, she grew up with the artist at home; In fact, her brother is also a voice actor. Michelle has voiced the boy in Life is Beautiful, Kiara in The Lion King, Hermione in the Harry Potter saga and Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls, to name some of her most notable works. “Of course, my parents warned me that it is a tough profession and that I had to keep my feet on the ground. But since I was a child it is what I have seen at home and what I like to do and they have always been my great support. I feel very lucky to be able to continue dedicating myself to what I like; It is a difficult profession in which you never know what can happen, so I seriously tell you that I don’t know if in ten years I will still be in this; Of course, I don’t lack will.”
Michelle Jenner is impregnable when it comes to her private life. We know that she recently ended a ten-year relationship with the father of her only child, who is four and a half years old, and whose name is irrelevant since she does not belong to the public sphere. Therefore, knowing the firmness of her convictions, asking her how she is feeling would be not only useless but as intrusive as uttering a scream during a Zen meditation. We chose to put ourselves on the other side of the prism: “I have always wanted my private life to be private and I am very grateful when that is respected. Nothing else. Obviously, I don’t like to sometimes read things that aren’t even true. I don’t understand. It seems fine to me if the two parties agree and one decides to talk about her life and that the media echoes it, but not when one of the two parties does not want to. But she keeps doing herself like that.” If the reader wants to play Sherlock Holmes to find out if the actress is even vaguely referring to some personal experience, we can tell you that she will have to travel very far back in the calendar.
