Glenn Close will join the cast of the “La bola negra,” an original film produced by Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in co-production with Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo and France’s Le Pacte.
“La Bola Negra” is written, directed and produced by Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.
Close will head the cast alongside Penelope Cruz, Guitarricadelafuente, making his acting debut, Miguel Bernardeau (“Élite”), Carlos González (“Veneno”) and Lola Dueñas (“La Mesías”).
Interweaving the interconnected lives of three men in three different eras, “La Bola Negra” depicts three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance and also incorporates one of Federico García Lorca’s last, unfinished works.
It marks Calvo and Ambrossi’s return to filmmaking after creating series “Veneno” and “La Mesías” which established them as one of the most exciting young film-TV creative duos in Europe.
“We are really happy to confirm Glenn Close as part of ‘La bola negra’s’ cast,” Calvo and Ambrossi said Thursday. “It will be an honor to work with such a legend, an actress we had always admired. She read the project and fell in love with it. We are in love with her.”
Close scooped the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical Performance for her role as Norma Desmond in the London production of “Sunset Boulevard.”
She has also won three Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Tony Awards and eight Oscar nominations. Close is currently starring in the independent film “The Summer Book” and will star this fall in the Ryan Murphy series “All’s Fair” followed by Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery.”
Her TV work takes in the film “Serving in Silence” and the series “Damages.”
Calvo and Ambrosia broke out internationally with “Veneno,” which won a GLAAD Award and premiered on HBO Max to large acclaim, being considered by Variety, The New Yorker, Vulture and The New York Times as one of the best series of the year.
The first Spanish series to be included in the Sundance Film Festival program, “La Mesías” took two of the top awards at France’s Series Mania, the most important TV festival in Europe. Premiering on French public broadcaster Arte, it was hailed by French newspaper Liberation as “one of the most beautiful series of the year.”
“La bola negra” went into production in Spain in August. Cast also includes Lorenzo Zurzolo (“Baby”), Julio Torres (“Fantasmas”), Natalia de Molina (“Superestar”), Antonio de la Torre (“The Realm”) and Albert Pla (“La Mesías”), as well as new talents discovered by the directors, such as Milo Quifes.
Elástica will release “La bola negra” in cinemas in Spain. Goodfellas handles international sales.
