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  ChicagoFilm.com - Interviews - Bernal
Bernal, who speaks four languages fluently, studied acting in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and after a childhood of acting, went on to star in "Amores Perros" as his first major feature film, followed by "Y tu mamá también," directed by Alfonso Cuaron.
When we spoke with Bernal on a Chicago press tour, he was soft-spoken and apologetic about his command of the language, but offered up far more calm, composure and wisdom than a man his age should probably possess.
Bernal is clearly a force to be reckoned with.
www.chicagofilm.com /interviews/bernal/default.asp   (736 words)

  
 GaelGarcíaBernal.net | Your Source for Gael Garcia Bernal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gael Garcia has been an actor from a very young age and was a soap star in his native Mexico.
Gael Garcia Bernal is 28 years of age (born on November 30 1978) and is a rising star in Hollywood.
Gael Garcia Bernal was becoming a soap heartthrob in a Mexican TV series but quit to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Acting in London.
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 INTERVIEW: Padre, Padre: Mexico's Native Son Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in the Controversial "The Crime of Father Amaro"
Bernal plays a recently-ordained young priest sent to work in a village where he learns that the senior padres are caught up in some dirty business.
Bernal was recently in town for a quick weekend (coinciding with Mexico's independence day celebrations, more on that later) to do press before jetting off to South America to begin filming a Walter Salles film.
Gael Garcia Bernal: No, but there were protests against the people who were trying to prohibit the film.
www2.indiewire.com /people/int_Bernal_Gael_021112.html   (1302 words)

  
 The language of love | Review | The Observer
Gael plays Lorenzo, who is more an emotion than a character, driven by a sexual obsession that will - when he steals away with his former sweetheart on her wedding day to another man - prove fatal.
Gael identifies with this: 'Passion is inflammable, it can spark out into impetuous actions that lead to disaster in most cases.' He adds a puzzling postscript: 'Unfortunately, I am born in a time and place and context in which I don't even allow myself to put the kettle on.
Gael seems so ready to wear his heart on his sleeve that I ask him what it is like being described as a romantic idol ('doe-eyed soulfulness'...
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1473999,00.html   (1777 words)

  
 Gael Garcia Bernal Another Man | Just Jared
Bernal first grabbed the attention of the art-house crowd in 2000 in Alejandro González Iñárntu's Amores Perros, an extreme story of three lives thar collide in one car crash amid the chaos of Mexico City.
Bernal's commitment is thrown into sharp relief when he talks about his move to London to go to drama school at the age of 17 a decade ago.
Bernal and his family lived comfortably in Mexico City - his mother is an actor, his father an actor and director - but like many kids of his age he was swept up by the energy and sheer excitement of the capital's mass support for the Zapatistas.
www.justjared.com /gossip/2006/03/gael_garcia_bernal_another_man.php   (2478 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Rise to fame of Che Guevara actor
Cuaron snapped Garcia Bernal up to play one of the three lead roles in the lusty 2001 film Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too), which saw Garcia Bernal reunited with Luna.
Garcia Bernal played the character of Father Amaro, a young priest who falls in love with a young girl whom he gets pregnant and then abandons.
Garcia Bernal also courted controversy at the 2003 Academy Awards ceremony, where he was asked to present an award.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3571182.stm   (673 words)

  
 Gael Garcia Bernal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gael often cites this Italian actor as one of his all-time idols.
Like Gael, Marcello sought to subvert the Latin lover persona he had thrust upon him by picking challenging movie roles that required him to play quirky characters.
Gael studied acting in London at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk /celebs/g-guys/Gael_Garcia_Bernal/default.asp   (208 words)

  
 IGN: Interview: Gael Garcia Bernal
Bernal recently spoke to IGN FilmForce about his involvement in the project, and discussed his career trajectory as audiences clamor for more movies with him in them.
Bernal says that the role was especially challenging not because of a dearth of background information, but because of its seemingly endless availability.
Bernal says that the defining moment in the film, both for Ernesto and for himself, was when young Guevara swims across a river to celebrate his birthday with the inhabitants of a leper colony instead of the nurses and doctors who reside comfortably on the other side.
movies.ign.com /articles/550/550849p1.html   (1321 words)

  
 Then It Must Be True - Gael Garcia Bernal
Gael Garcia Bernal demonstrates this transformation in The Motorcycle Diaries with an internal conflict visible in every expression on his face.
Yet his performance is all-embracing and captivating enough to bring a universality to the character – the pre-legend – that audiences viewing it feel they, too, are on this journey and can experience a life change.
Even the men are rapt with attention, trying to clue in to the secret that makes this guy tick so as to perhaps employ it on their own time.
www.thenitmustbetrue.com /garciabernal/garciabernal1.html   (2827 words)

  
 Señor Bernal : a Gael García Bernal fansite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Garcia Bernal, actor Diego Luna and director Alfonso Cuaron were among 51 people who published a half-page open letter in local newspapers supporting the law passed this month by local lawmakers.
Garcia Bernal, star of ``Amores Perros,'' ``Y Tu Mama Tambien'' and ``The Motorcycle Diaries,'' frequently weighs in on politics.
During the filming, Bernal was exactly the same age as Guevara at the time of his expedition, and he read the same French existentialist writers that Guevara would have read at the time.
www.senorbernal.com   (5175 words)

  
 Gael García Bernal - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Gael García Bernal (30 de noviembre de 1978, en Guadalajara, Jalisco, México) es un actor mexicano del teatro, televisión y el cine mexicano.
Gael es hijo de los actores José Ángel García y Patricia Bernal, inició con ellos su carrera artística actuando en teatro.
Gael Garcia Bernal Total Página en español con imágenes y información.
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 Gael García Bernal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
García Bernal was becoming a soap opera heartthrob, but at age 19, he left Mexico's television world to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, becoming the first person from Mexico to be accepted to the program.
He has been nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for "The Motorcycle Diaries" and, in 2006, was nominated for the Orange Rising Star award which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry.
García Bernal's press officers began the rumor that he dated Natalie Portman from March 2003 to April 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gael_Garc%C3%ADa_Bernal   (559 words)

  
 Gael García Bernal
Born in Mexico, Gael García Bernal began acting when he was a child.
Bernal's performance in the film earned him a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and a Silver Ariel Award in Mexico.
Returning to his native language, Bernal played the lead role in El crimen del padre Amaro (2002), which was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=7118   (372 words)

  
 Gael Garcia Bernal Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Bernal was born in Guadalajara to actor parents who often included their son in theatrical productions.
Bernal next reunited with Iñárritu for the director’s complex and emotionally-wrought drama, “Babel” (2006), a heartbreaking examination of confusion, fear and the depths of love.
Bernal played the drunken nephew of the couple’s housemaid (Adriana Barraza) who tries to smuggle her and the couple’s two children into Mexico.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/1113819   (1273 words)

  
 The Gael Garcia Bernal Contact
Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal made his international breakthrough with a starring role as a young man who falls in love and wants to run with his pregnant sister-in-law in the Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film nominee Amores Perros (2000; a.k.a.
In Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Gael Garcia Bernal was born on November 30, 1978, to actor parents Jose Angel Garcia (also a director; born in 1959) and Patricia Bernal (also a former model; born in 1944).
Meanwhile, Bernal was handed a more challenging role, as a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town who is tempted by politics and sexual passions (to a 16-year-old local girl), in the very controversial Mexican film, El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002; a.k.a.
www.superiorpics.com /gael_garcia_bernal/contact.html   (1538 words)

  
 The Gael Garcia Bernal Interview, May 18, 2006 - Gael Garcia Bernal, Gael Garcia Bernal interview, The King
Gael Garcia Bernal has been called Mexico’s answer to James Dean so many times it’s almost a cliché.
Onscreen, Bernal radiates movie star charisma of the dangerous old school brand- he’d just as soon kiss you as kill you, and in James Marsh’s new film “The King,” murder is a serious factor.
Bernal plays Elvis, the king of the title, who (ironically) doesn’t show much an affinity for rock n’ roll.
www.clubplanet.com /news/archive/the_gael_garcia_bernal_interview.asp   (594 words)

  
 ..Gael Garcia Bernal.
Garcia Bernal said Canana was launched to create a platform to tell interesting stories that often go untold in feature films.
GGB: I guess the starting point for Ambulante was our very good friend, Eugenio Polgovsky, who did a film as his thesis for CCC, one of the biggest schools for cinema in Mexico.
GGB: There was this writer, [Georg] Büchner, who said that for him to begin to write anything, his point of departure was not the story, but rather he had to completely understand the politics of it and then develop the story to fit the politics.
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 Gael Garcia Bernal impresses at Cannes - Cannes - MSNBC.com
Bernal is a huge star in Latin America, and his strong showing in Cannes put him on magazine covers around the world.
Bernal, who lives in Mexico City and went to acting school in London, did months of research for both Cannes roles.
Bernal’s parents were in Cannes, taking in movies and touring local villages, while Bernal has spent the last week giving interviews.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5014727   (823 words)

  
 Gael Garcia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gael became an actor because his parents Jose Angel Garcia, and Patricia Bernal, are both actors in
Gael also acts in Motorcycle Diaries, interpreting the role of the Che Guevara, a film of the Brazilian director Walter Salles.
2004 Gael Garcia attended the Film Festival of New York, as a special guest to the homage that was done in honor of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
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 MTV Movie News | Behind 'The Motorcycle Diaries': Gael García Bernal On Portraying The Young Che Guevara
Bernal felt 'there was never a point where I really had it,' but critics disagree.
He's not only the most visceral actor of his generation, he may be one of the very brightest guys I've ever met."

"It's really hard to play someone like Che Guevara and#8212; it's a big responsibility and no one else could have done it," De la Serna added.

Gael Garcia Bernal on the preparation he did for "The Motorcycle Diaries"
www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1491411/09242004/story.jhtml   (1083 words)

  
 Gael Garcia Bernal News - Page 2
Babel, TBA Brad Pitt and Gael Garcia Bernal compete with several simultaneous story lines depicting international troubles: Americans kidnapped in...
Here's how to lure an A-list star to your project: Tell her that for most of the shoot, she'll be lying in a dark hut in the North African desert, pretending to be seriously wounded, fading in and out of...
Humane laws meant Gael Garcia Bernal couldn't pull the head off a chicken for real in his new movie Babel, but the Mexican actor has done the dirty deed in real life.
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 Amazon.com: Vidas Privadas: DVD: Cecilia Roth,Gael García Bernal,Luis Ziembrowsky,Chunchuna Villafañe,Lito ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And the fans of Gael Garcia Bernal would not be disappointed, whose character plays the crutial role in the latter half of the film.
Gael García Bernal's fake Argentinean accent is alright, but he still gives a good performance.
Never understood why/how Garcia Bernal falls in love to a woman that only gave orders, didn't show her face and almost didn't talk.
www.amazon.com /Vidas-Privadas-Cecilia-Roth/dp/B00066FBEI   (2141 words)

  
 Gael Garcia Bernal News
Gael Garcia Bernal has joined other Mexican celebrities to voice support for Mexico City's new law legalizing gay civil unions.
Gael Garcia Bernal is A-Ok with Gay Civil Unions
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal joined other Mexican celebrities Tuesday to voice support for Mexico City's new law legalizing gay civil unions.
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 Gael García Bernal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gael García Bernal began his acting career as a child, working with his...
Gael García Bernal has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
Find where Gael García Bernal is credited alongside another name
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 Gael García Bernal - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An actor nearly all his life, the endearingly handsome Gael García Bernal began performing in stage productions with his parents in Guadalajara,...
Gael Garcia Bernal, persisted with a Latino-style 'Ba-bell'.
Gael García Bernal (born November 30, 1978) is a Mexican...
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 London Film Festival - Events - Gael García Bernal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An actor from a young age, Gael García Bernal began his career performing with his parents before going on to appear in several plays and soap operas in his native Mexico.
In it Bernal starred as Octavio, a young man who becomes embroiled in the savage world of dog fighting.
It was a breakout role for the actor and his remarkable performance would lead to equally impressive turns in Y Tu Mamá También, El Crimen del Padre Amaro and, most recently, Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries and Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education.
www.lff.org.uk /events_details.php?EventID=46   (304 words)

  
 GAELONLINE.COM || The Gael Garcia Bernal Network
Announcing the line-up for the LFF two months ago, Trash did give the film company a deadline of closing night to come up with a definitive pronunciation but American studio execs insisted on calling it 'Babble 'and its star, Gael Garcia Bernal, persisted with a Latino-style 'Ba-bell'.
Also, huge new interview by The Guardian (they also have a podcast of the interview as well) and a few articles included in the Press section.
Along with the official Babel site opening up we've got a new nifty little picture of Gael to go with it.
gaelonline.com   (348 words)

  
 Celebopedia - Gael Garcia Bernal
A Mexican actor, Gael Garcia Bernal's film credits include "Y tu mamá también", "El Crimen del padre Amaro", "I'm with Lucy", "The Motorcycle Diaries" and "Bad Education." His TV credits include "Fidel", "Teresa" and "El Abuelo y yo."
Gael has played revolutionary Che Guevara twice ("The Motorcycle Diaries" and "Fidel").
This site is not endorsed by Gael Garcia Bernal or any organization Gael Garcia Bernal is, was or will be associated with.
www.celebopedia.com /garciabernal   (167 words)

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