In the mouth of Marta Nieto (Murcia, 1982) the word universe takes on an astronomical meaning. He pronounces it many times, with full awareness. Because with the movie ' Mother', by Rodrigo Sorogoyen - November 15 in cinemas - it has plunged into one extreme. To the point of having awakened new sensations and fears .

That universe that the actress has inhabited is born in the fiction of a loss: that of a son, Ivan (six years), disappeared on a beach a decade ago. And also in a short film of the same name (with which the film starts) that Goya took in 2018 and traveled to Los Angeles this 2019 to try his luck with the Oscar. He did not win it, but by then Marta Nieto had already celebrated the fate of a character who has transformed her to all possible levels. Yes, Leon won the best actress in the Horizons Section of the Venice Film Festival.

'' With 'Mother' I have realized that I want to do this kind of cinema. Elena [her character] has awakened my creativity and my desire to take responsibility. There are stories of other people that interest me a lot and there is one that I want to tell, so I am writing my own film thanks to some scholarships from the Film Academy that came out this year. A thousand projects were presented, 15 were chosen and mine is among them. It's a nine-month residence where I'm putting all my energy ... and I can't feel happier! I have always liked to write, but I had never dared. I was asleep. Now I have a life that I look at and say: 'I love it!' ''

Marta Nieto with Blumarine knit dress. Geometrie ring in white gold with aquamarines and Suarez diamonds. Messika diamond and white gold bracelet and Jimmy Choo solo glasses.Photographer: Rafa Gallar - Creative Director: André Gianzo - Production: Isabel Moralejo

I DONATE.- definitely, Mother has changed your life ... Marta Nieto Totally! My mother used to tell me the other day: "Doesn't it seem very strong that you won a lion for a movie called Mother?" And my son's name is León ... It's closing the circle. Everything that is happening, from the short film to the movie, is a dream. Winning the Goya for best actress would be to fulfill another one, nor is it the most important thing, or right now I feel that this will change me nothing. I have done the work and what I want is to share it with people. What I would like is to be placed in a place thanks to which I opt for similar jobs, something that will be difficult. Characters like Elena are scarce in our cinema ... Yes, I am fully aware of the opportunity they have given me. I had a very deep need to feel fulfilled as an actress, to let off steam, to really get into another skin and enjoy what it means to interpret and not just resolve, which in the end is what we normally do. And with this character I have achieved it for the first time, for everything: because the director has let me participate in all the creative processes and give my opinion, because I have been very close to the project since he was born and I have had time to work it, which is not normal. I just want to work like that! The director is also your partner. How do you get your balance when you share everything? I don't know! [laughs] We have very defined lives. The cinema goes first, the professional capacity of both is above the personal. Essentially, the movie came first; It is and it will be. In the film 10 years have passed since the short one and Elena, more aged and thin, dragged her life along the French beach where everything happened. Working those 10 years has been very hard and wonderful at the same time, because what is transmitted with thinness, movements, old age, are strokes of where she has gone. That universe is my work material. I had to imagine why, when the movie starts, she survives; why they call her the crazy woman on the beach; why he hasn't left that place ... I talked to people who have been the same as Elena and it's a terrifying reality. You cannot turn the page or the duel, since no one has died. You do not know if it will appear and you cannot help thinking that it may be so. You are mother. How have you managed this emotional journey? I had a hard time getting into that role, because doing so provoked me to physical reactions. I lived with my son and suddenly some images began to come to my head, I wanted to vomit, I was in anguish, I cried ... And once I got in, I had a hard time getting out. I think I still have some of those emotions ... In fact, Leon was not with me during filming. He came to see me in France one day with his father and I explained it to him. We have a very intimate and very beautiful relationship. Jean, the French teenager who reminds him of his son, will Elena's salvation chart be? Yes. She is dead, dry, surviving life, because she can't even kill her in case her son appears. And he hates father. Live with those two pains. Jean represents love, a strange love that could be uncomfortable from the outside, but that is pure. This love makes her wake up, take the reins and overcome fear. The movie really is an awakening. Yes, it is an unconventional love. I think we live in an increasingly polarized society, everything is white or black, and that is why this movie is uncomfortable. It is necessary that we inhabit the chiaroscuro, gray places, to which we are not accustomed and that are so natural, organic and essential. The margins of emotions are also human. How much has it transformed you to be a mother? I think about it and get excited ... I was born again after Leon was born, in contrast to him. My silhouette has to do with his and my way of being and wanting to be a better person also have to do with him. It is somewhat inspiring. The most important thing is to settle the values ​​and get to be the best version of it, for which I also have to show the best version of myself, something that I had never considered before. You are no longer yogi or vegetarian, are you? Why? I had to lose weight quickly for the movie, so I started eating animal protein. And yoga anesthetized me, it made me feel so good that it became my way of resisting entering the drama. And I have not returned yet. Precisely because I also need to have a lot of feelings for the subject I am writing about. And now, which ones do you feel? Something good has to come! I would love to continue making movies. I feel like the artisan process and there are directors who freak me out, like Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Juanjo Giménez (from the short Timecode), Paco Plaza ... I would love to get into their universes and contribute. Don't just go to sign.

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