Marisa Paredes, Acclaimed in Almodóvar Films, Is Dead at 78

 

 

"While her decades-long collaboration with Mr. Almodóvar was mutually beneficial, it was not without its complications — in part, because of Ms. Paredes’s acting process. As Mel Gussow wrote in 2001 in The New York Times, “Whatever the movie, Ms. Paredes is known for besieging her director with questions: ‘Why do I do that? Where do I come from? Why do I think those thoughts? And what kind of books would my character read?’”

The demanding Mr. Almodóvar also bore some responsibility for their choppy relationship, which included an extended period of not speaking to each other. A 1996 profile of Ms. Paredes in The Guardian noted that the director looked “like a petulant boy” and was “renowned for living up to the description on set.”

“He says that I asked too many questions; I was a little too mouthy, a little too arrogant,” Ms. Paredes told The Guardian. “He said that I didn’t deliver myself fully, that I insisted on rationalizing what I was doing. Not something he liked. And he was right. I’m a very methodical actress, a little too concerned about the whys and wherefores of things.”"

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