Paola Núñez puts on the boots (and the bruises) in ‘Venganza’
For Paola Núñez, her new film ‘Venganza’ was literally a dream come true. Not only because of the leading role, but because he was finally able to demonstrate his athletic skills by hitting several men on screen. Yes, you read that right.
“It was fulfilling everyone’s fantasy,” he responds with a laugh about those scenes where he annihilates his opponents.
The Baja Californian actress plays a high-ranking military officer in this film that premiered last Thursday. A world where corruption and those who want to fight it face. And although it sounds like hard work, she enjoyed every second of it.
“We rehearsed the scenes a lot, we ended up with bruises, but fine. One scene was going to be filmed in two days and ended up being filmed in one,” he points out with that mixture of pride and fatigue that only intense filming gives.
From ‘Bad Boys’ to national heroes
Núñez does not come to the action genre blank. He already has experience after participating in the last two installments of ‘Bad Boys’ alongside Will Smith, and in the series ‘Resident Evil’. But doing it in Mexico has a special flavor.
“I don’t see any difference and obviously it’s a question of budgets, but we also have stories worth telling,” he reflects. “Believing that we have heroes in our national army… I know that we are in an extremely violent and corrupt country, but we also have heroes and it is worth exalting them.”
The film follows a group of special forces that fights big bosses. The plot is unleashed when one of them (Omar Chaparro) is attacked and his wife is murdered, unleashing a search for revenge with his companions.
For Núñez, the message transcends the local. ‘Venganza’ is the debut feature of director Rodrigo Valdés and has Pablo Cruz (from ‘Luis Miguel: the series’) as producer.
“You can tell this story everywhere because there are human beings and where there are humans, power and ambition, there is corruption,” says the actress. “We are not talking specifically about the army, but about human nature that is corrupted.”
The film is the second Mexican production that tries to praise the figure of the army in the last year, after ‘Contraataque’ on Netflix. It seems that Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on heroes in uniform.
