After a decade of hard work in the entertainment industry in Mexico, Mariana Treviño Ortiz was presented with the great opportunity to work with one of her most admired actors, Tom Hanks.
Following the purest Hollywood script, the actress from Monterrey won a role in the film A Man Called Otto, which in Spanish is titled A grumpy neighbor.
And it is that, to participate in the casting, Mariana he recorded a video with his mobile phone from a hotel room in Spain, through which he showed his talent for handling comedy in both Spanish and English and this eclipsed the German director Marc Forster, who did not hesitate to give her the character of Marisol, a pregnant Mexican mother who tries to soften the heart of a grumpy old man characterized by the winner of two Oscars.
In this regard, the 46-year-old Mexican expressed the pleasant feeling that working and meeting an icon of contemporary American cinema left her.
“Seeing myself on set with Tom Hanks was amazing, it was surreal and I had to breathe, because I didn’t believe it, but at the same time, since he is such a human person, who has such great generosity, those illusory barriers that we then put up with people and with hierarchies, come undone, melt away,” he said in an interview with the newspaper excelsior.
The likeable interpreter who gained notoriety after her participation in the Netflix series, Club Cuervos, between 2015 and 2019, assures that after her experience in A Man Called Otto, she is ready to face new challenges next year.
“I keep telling stories with all the affection and love and I hope they appear elsewhere. I am ready for whatever comes”he stressed.
It should be noted that Mariana Treviño’s acting career is based on a solid background since she studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
In addition, the Monterrey native studied Modern English Language and Literature at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
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