Meg Ryan is back in front of (and behind) the camera in her new romantic comedy, What Remains After, which she has presented in our country and in which she stars with David Duchovny.
The North American actress Meg Ryan presents her second film as a director at the 8th Barcelona Sant Jordi International Film Festival (BCN Film Fest), the romantic comedy What Remains After, in which she co-stars alongside David Duchovny, and has assured that "cynicism It is too easy".
She said it in a meeting with the media in Barcelona when asked if the world is becoming less romantic and more cynical, and she said that she does not know if it is more or less, but she is "proud that it is not a cynical film ".
Ryan presents her film at the festival, where she is one of the main international presences of this edition of the festival along with director Richard Linklater.
In The Aftermath, Wilha (Meg Ryan) and William (David Duchovny), lovers in their youth, find themselves standing at an airport in the middle of a snowstorm that cancels all flights and, waiting for their air connections resume, they face their past misunderstandings.
She has explained that romantic comedies look to the future but that she has done so "towards the past", looking for an opportunity to untangle the misunderstandings of her protagonists, a look at the past that is also noticeable in music with a continuous criticism of the character. from Duchovny to algorithms.
He has stressed that the film is a comedy but with underlying plots such as melancholy, nostalgia, having children and failure, which can be "useful", and considers that there is depth in both light and darkness.
Ryan, who created iconic couples with Billy Crystal and Tom Hanks in When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail, has praised Duchovny, "a fantastic partner," and has noted that many viewers identify with his character.
The actress has recalled great directors who directed her and who have served as an example in her role as a director, such as Nora Ephron, Jane Campion and Diane Keaton, and has stressed that she made four films with Ephron: "She was part of my life" , and defines her as a friend and mentor.
"I never thought that because I was a woman it was a job I couldn't do. It's probably because I had seen these women doing it and they did it at a time when there weren't many women directing," she added.
She has assured that the Hollywood industry is "a commercial artistic form, two terms that sometimes cancel each other," and has highlighted how lucky she was to work with directors as creative as them.
The actress and director believes that the position of women in the film industry has improved, but that in some aspects it has gone backwards and in others it has advanced, "as in everything."
In addition, she has defended Campion's bravery with the erotic thriller In Flesh, and has taken the opportunity to remember an interview that was done with Ryan herself for that film and that she assures that she is taught at university as an example of a bad interview.
