In London, Gael Garcia Bernal is starring on stage in Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding". In The Observer in London, Kate Kellaway talks with the actor:
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. I just let things happen.' I try to get him to elucidate (how does he make a cup of coffee?) in vain. My translation: his love life is out of his control (the kettle's metaphorical).
