When Lilith Curiel was offered to participate in the casting of the series Earth Eater He didn’t think twice and took the flight to go. He knew that the series adapted an Argentine novel, so at the airport he looked for the book by Dolores Reyes, he read it and, when he finished it, he thought: “don’t mess around, this is incredible, I want to be part of this.”
Although the production had to make some changes to the story to adjust it to the fact that at that time she was not yet of age, Lilith was left with the role of Aylín, the main character, a teenager with the gift of finding missing people by eating dirt and who becomes of great help in apparently insoluble cases.
“I am very, very happy to be able to make the representation about this girl and the power she has and what she does in her life with that power. And how it affects her, but at the same time it helps her and helps others. And obviously it was an emotion of ‘don’t stain, I’m with Prime Video, I’m with Yalitza (Aparicio), I’m with Mabel (Cadena), I’m with these other super famous faces’. I think it’s a project with a super big weight and I’m very proud to be able to be part of it.”
The showrunner of this production from Prime, the Amazon production company that is betting on making original content in Spanish, is the Argentine Daniel Burman, who is known for films such as The broken hug (2004), with which he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Festival.
The novel by Dolores Reyes, published in Mexico by Alfaguara, takes place in a suburban area of Argentina. “They have to resort to a girl who is psychic, who is a suburbanite, who eats dirt, something linked to poverty and dirt; and to all the derogatory speech that the poor have that I was also interested in addressing,” the author said at the time. In the series, the story takes place in a popular area of Mexico City, where two brothers have to fend for themselves after the death of their mother.
In fact, the character of the mother appears in a video and her interpretation is handled by Mabel Cadena, an actress whose filmography includes The goddess of asphalt, The dance of 41 y Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. “I love Dolores Reyes’s novel,” says Mabel in the same interview, “and when they invited me to be part of the project, I was very excited because there are few novels that suddenly, in their contemporaneity, can have an adaptation that continues to resonate and continue to make sense for me. And with the simple fact that they represent them, for me it fulfills what matters to me, my social commitment as a woman. As an actress, sometimes one does different things, but I think that Prime Video had an enormous success in bring to life Earth Eater”.
For her, the novel echoes that we must not forget those who are different, those who do not think alike, the orphans of drug trafficking. “Earth Eater She is a little heroine who, without considering being a heroine, has a power that makes her different and that her environment does not see her different, her environment does not understand, but accompanies her in this search for violence that affects us, regardless of gender, to begin to build narratives that become much more powerful and that begin to heal these wounds a little more.
Yalitza Aparicio, who plays teacher Emma, the first victim that Aylín helps search in the company of Ezequiel (Harold Torres), a police officer who does not stop searching, coincides with Mabel Cadena. “When I read the script, I thought: ‘It would be incredible if a gift like this really existed and could help us move forward in a magnificent way.’ I think there are many things in the series that do exist, which is that support that is given among Aylín’s friends, how her environment does not judge, how she recognizes herself and discovers so many things, especially in this very complicated stage that we have all gone through, which is adolescence, where there are many changes around you. And in adolescents the turn to see what they are going to judge about you, if you are going to be accepted or not, but here there is a camaraderie that becomes like a family and that support network that she has to continue promoting the ability or gift that she has.”
He adds: “Hopefully this will also help young people reflect, giving us the opportunity to watch the series, how each quality that each one of them has makes them important: character, their charisma and everything.”
Earth Eater can be seen through the Prime Video platform.
*Javier Pérez He does reports, chronicles and interviews, as well as film criticism and coverage of cultural issues. Direct ForoFoco. Nobody wants to accompany him to the movies: he won’t stop eating popcorn or talking about something else.
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