Eva Hache’s career in comedy is enormous. Her monologues have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube, and her career in front of television cameras is admirable. But this time the communicator has taken the other side, making her debut as a director in Anybody Has a Bad Day, the new film that has Ana Polvorosa as the protagonist, and with which she expands her comedy to other formats. “It’s like learning a new language. It’s another vocabulary, another technique. Something she had never done before. Having so many people at my disposal making all my wishes is actually wonderful and gratifying, but it entails a great responsibility to make decisions all the time and pretend that I am sure,” says the philologist, who also takes advantage of the film to laugh at the subject. , although he admits that he loves it.
Eva Hache’s debut feature follows Sonia (Ana Polvorosa), a doctoral student with an enviable adherence to rules, hours away from defending her thesis. While she goes down to throw out the trash, she meets a friend of hers who invites her – or pressures her – to have a few drinks. From there, her tranquility turns into chaos and a night journey begins, which continues to worsen with torrential rain, problems with the police and avant-garde artists, with Ana Polvorosa almost alone as she tours Madrid. She “she had never been so alone when it came to co-stars. It’s the first time and it was hard. They are very intense jobs and you want to share with colleagues. I am often alone and exposed in front of the camera and when you have colleagues who are supporting you and it is more of a team effort, it is good for you,” says the actress who was one of the main characters in Cable Girls, the series from Netflix released in 2010.
The film, which was produced by Álex de la Iglesia, was a great challenge and a lot of learning throughout filming for Hache. “I wasn’t able to think in plans. When approaching the work I had to learn another language, another way of telling stories,” says the director who saw the idea of ??directing as something distant, almost impossible. “I didn’t imagine directing. Maybe in some remote corner of my brain there was an illusion, but a rather utopian one. “The work of a film director seems so impressive to me that I had not even dared to verbalize it.” And then why did she get into this trap? “Álex de la Iglesia called me and told me that he had a script that he thought was a very good idea for me to direct and I said yes, it was that easy. “Crazy,” clarifies the comedian. “But that’s it, it’s out in theaters now and I’m impressed. “I still can’t believe that this historic moment in my life is going to happen.”
Now the film is already in theaters, but the process was not at all simple, especially for the comedian who gained notoriety with her monologues in The Comedy Club. “Several times I felt overwhelmed, but I tend not to let myself fall and think that if someone trusts me, I can’t blow myself up. But yes, the truth is that it is such a complicated job, it is the most difficult job I have ever done in my life,” says Hache. “Many times I doubted myself, but I always finish what I start. I knew that this was going to end and I was going to try to do it with all the dedication and love of which I am capable,” adds the Segovia-born woman.
For Ana Polvorosa, who made her acting debut in 2000, the film meets her expectations and shows great pride in the production written by screenwriter Jelen Morales and which is distributed by Warner. “I really liked it when I saw it for the first time. It seems to me like a movie that goes by at a speed that you hardly even notice. Very cool things happen within the movie. One of the things I like is the character arc. Where it begins and where it ends seems brutal to me,” comments the actress who was part of the cast of Aída, the television comedy with which she won two awards from the Union of Actors and Actresses of Spain. “I already found it very fun when I read the script and then doing it. Seeing the result, it seems excellent to me. It was not an easy thing to do, it is difficult to maintain an emotional connection like that,” adds the film’s protagonist.
Although Eva Hache’s name can generate expectations and emotions, she hopes that this does not affect the film or condition the viewers. “At first it will cause some surprise and I hope that the expectation is satisfied. We are very happy with what we deliver for the cinemas. It is a film for all ages, fun, but also different. It is not a typical comedy,” says the comedian. “This is done for the people. We are dedicated to entertainment, we give people time for happiness and fun. That’s the goal. Let people go to the cinema and leave saying “what a good time I had!”, concludes the director about her film, which has already hit theaters.
