GQ Mexico
GQ Mexico
  • 10 months ago
Ester Expósito responde a las preguntas reales de sus fans. La actriz de “Elite” y “Perdidos en la noche” comparte detalles de su vida que intrigan a todos en Internet, desde cómo se prepara para darle vida a sus personajes hasta su película favorita.

STARRING: Ester Expósito

DIRECTOR: Yollotl Alvarado
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sara Ramos
PRODUCER CNE: Laura Escribano

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marta Berzal
TALENT COORDINATOR: Loreto Quintanilla
CAMERA OPERATOR: Claudia Barco
GAFFER: Tomás Parra
SOUND: Julio Cuspinera

MUA: Rubén Marmol (Kasteel Artist Managment)
FASHION Direction: Joana de la Fuente
STYLING: Juan Luis Ascanio
STYLING ASSISTANTS: María José Villar and Miguel Ángel Pardo

LOCATION: Plato Cenital

EDITOR: Luis Ramírez
COLORIST: Florencia Bottinelli
GRAPHICS: Pamela Becerril
POST COORDINATOR: Sebastián Fernández

CNE Mexico and Latin America Team:
Digital Programming and Development VP: Juan Pablo Gallón
Head of Programming and Development: Salvador Abarca Arriaga
Development Lead: Alaín Heredia
Production Manager: Gerardo Tagle
Production Coordinator: Aimeé Estrada
Senior Creative Editor: Sebastián Fernández
Talent Coordinator: Sofía Reyes
Programming Lead: Nancy Fernández
Video Operations Lead: Daniela Torres
Production Coordinator Assistant: Alexis Sánchez
Transcript
00:00 Suddenly I see something black here,
00:02 rising up to my neck,
00:05 and I'm like, "Please, get me off!"
00:07 Well, no, no.
00:08 Hi, GQ, I'm Esther Expósito,
00:10 and I'm going to go online unknowingly
00:12 because this is really me.
00:14 [Ester Expósito]
00:16 [Ester Expósito]
00:20 Let's open some accounts.
00:23 [Ester Expósito]
00:25 Who is Esther Expósito?
00:27 Good question.
00:28 Well, a 23-year-old girl
00:30 who's always dreamed of being an actress
00:32 and today she's lucky enough to be able to do it.
00:35 She likes to dance,
00:37 she likes to go diving, the sea,
00:40 the white sharks, the cats, the moon...
00:43 I think that's a bit of the basics of me.
00:46 Where does Esther Expósito live and why?
00:48 Esther Expósito lives in Madrid
00:50 because it's the best city in the world.
00:52 It's that simple.
00:54 How did it happen for Esther to film in Mexico?
00:56 What did Mexico take to her heart?
00:58 Mexico, for me, is, I can say today,
01:00 the only country in the world where I feel at home,
01:04 apart from mine.
01:05 I have an incredible connection
01:06 and Mexico has brought me beautiful things,
01:09 including two projects already.
01:10 A movie, "Lost in the Night" by Amate Scalante,
01:13 and "Bandidos", a Netflix series I filmed this year.
01:16 I've been there a lot, I've lived there,
01:19 I've been able to get to know the culture, different places,
01:21 and I don't know, I love everything.
01:22 I have so many friends, I've made such good friends there
01:25 that I think people are one of the most beautiful things
01:28 that Mexico has.
01:29 What's your favourite food?
01:31 Does Esther go to the kitchen?
01:32 Well, no, Esther and the kitchen, no.
01:35 I don't know if one day, I don't think so,
01:36 because I don't think I have that talent,
01:39 even if I try to develop it.
01:41 But I like it, I like to eat,
01:43 and my favourite food is Galician octopus.
01:46 But since I saw my friend's documentary, "El Pulpo",
01:49 I've decided to stop eating it because I feel very sorry.
01:53 How does Esther prepare to build her characters?
01:56 Well, I think each one of them faces it in a different way.
01:58 Depending on the character, sometimes I document myself more,
02:01 and other times I create it more, also based on references,
02:04 movies that the director can recommend to me,
02:06 building a lot the inner world, the different layers,
02:09 their previous life.
02:11 Esther, I'm your fan and I hope that one day you'll read this.
02:14 I love you.
02:14 Well, I've read it.
02:15 I've read it.
02:16 Thank you for the love.
02:17 I love you too.
02:18 Next.
02:20 Is it true that Esther was going to enter a competition
02:22 to cut Serrano ham with the best in the world?
02:25 I hadn't even heard of it.
02:28 No, I love Iberian ham.
02:31 I mean, if I ever enter a competition, it'll be Iberian ham.
02:33 But someone could get hurt, so I'd never think about it.
02:37 What's Esther Expósito's favourite movie?
02:39 When should I invite her to watch movies?
02:41 For a cool evening,
02:42 for someone to invite me to their house to watch a movie.
02:44 "Acierta", for sure, with "El Señor de los Anillos"
02:46 or with "Pirates del Caribe", the first one.
02:47 What sign is Esther Expósito?
02:49 Do you believe in signs?
02:50 Well, I'm an Aquarian. I don't believe in signs.
02:52 I love to know...
02:53 I mean, whenever someone knows about signs,
02:56 I ask them because I'm interested
02:57 and I find it very funny how...
02:58 all the explanations and the characteristics of each sign.
03:01 But, well, I'm quite skeptical and I don't believe in it that much.
03:05 It's true that what I know about Aquarius,
03:06 what I've been told,
03:07 I think it's quite accurate with my way of being.
03:09 But then I get to know a lot of Aquarius that I think,
03:12 "You're not Aquarius."
03:13 How tall is Esther?
03:14 I'm about 67.
03:16 A few years ago, I said I was about 68,
03:18 because once I went to the doctor and he said I was about 68.
03:20 But, well, I don't know what happened later,
03:22 if the doctor was wrong or what,
03:23 but I've measured myself more times later
03:24 and I'm already about 67.
03:26 So, I've shrunk or the doctor's pistol has been thrown,
03:29 or who knows?
03:30 About 67. Let's leave it there.
03:32 What's a perfect day for Esther
03:34 and what should happen to make it the worst day?
03:36 This is difficult.
03:39 I'm going to tell you something that happened.
03:40 My boyfriend took me to some beautiful domes in Uruguay
03:44 and inside the dome I was able to count 15 spiders,
03:47 but spiders, not these tiny ones...
03:49 No, like this.
03:50 And I have arachnophobia, so, of course,
03:52 it became a nightmare.
03:53 The worst thing is that the next day,
03:56 when we were about to leave, we were packing everything
03:58 and when we were finally a minute away from leaving through the door,
04:01 I just needed to pick up the necessary and leave,
04:04 suddenly I see something black here in the back of my eye,
04:07 going up to my neck and, of course, I looked and...
04:11 Yes, I had one here.
04:13 And I was like, "Please, take it off."
04:15 Well, no, no, no.
04:16 I almost got something.
04:17 I knew I wasn't going to leave without a fight,
04:20 face to face with one of those in the room.
04:23 What is something that Sterexpósito can't stand?
04:25 I don't know, I have a memory of a public bath,
04:28 or a public public pool bath,
04:30 with the floor all soaked, wet,
04:32 a mixture of water and dirt,
04:34 like, of footsteps, of...
04:36 I don't know, a little bit of dandruff.
04:38 What makes Sterexpósito fall in love?
04:40 I don't know if I want to tell this,
04:42 because, of course, anyone can come and...
04:44 But, well, I think the things that I like the most
04:47 and that attract me are intelligence
04:49 and a sense of humor, too.
04:51 Smart, agile, I think that's what attracts me the most.
04:54 And the mystery, that there's a bit of mystery,
04:56 that not everything is sung,
04:58 but that they're, I don't know,
04:59 difficult people to decipher a bit.
05:01 What was the biggest challenge in your career?
05:04 "Lost in the Night" was very intense
05:06 and it was like a very...
05:07 I don't know, a process of a very cathartic character.
05:10 And then, well, there was also a scene that was shot in three days,
05:14 because it was just...
05:15 Amat wanted to shoot it with a specific light of dawn,
05:18 just when the sun was coming out from the roof of the house.
05:21 And, uff, it was very hard,
05:23 because the scene itself was already very complicated,
05:26 but then having to shoot it in three different days,
05:29 imagine the pressure and the extreme delivery of the emotions,
05:34 having to dose it in three days, and also at 6 in the morning.
05:37 Imagine what body we had there.
05:38 What do you need to follow me on Instagram?
05:41 Luck and faith.
05:42 What project is Sterexpósito now?
05:45 That travels everywhere.
05:47 I've been in Mexico for a long time, shooting "Bandidos",
05:49 and, of course, going and coming, going back to Madrid and such.
05:52 And then, now I've been to Milan's Fashion Week,
05:56 Paris, so maybe that's why you saw me coming and going,
05:59 but right now I'm not shooting anything.
06:01 This is great.
06:03 From Facebook.
06:04 Why do you sleep without pillows?
06:06 First news.
06:07 I don't know if anyone has seen a picture of me
06:09 lying down without pillows, maybe from a shoot.
06:11 But I've never said this, have I?
06:13 I think, I don't know.
06:14 I don't sleep without pillows.
06:16 I sleep with pillows.
06:17 Well, those were all the questions.
06:19 Thank you for sharing this little bit with me and listening to me.
06:22 Like this.
06:26 And fat, even a little, they don't reach the armpits,
06:29 but they had their thickness, their texture, their hair.
06:33 (upbeat music)
06:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]