Our interview with Fernanda Urrejola regarding her performance in the Lionsgate movie, “You Can’t Run Forever”
Miranda, a young woman already suffering from acute anxiety due to a past tragedy, faces a new terror when a serial killer chooses her as his new target. In a harrowing hunt through the woods, Miranda finds strength she never knew she had as she tries to elude her murderous tracker. Academy Award® winner J.K. Simmons stars in a spine-chilling thriller about the strength of family and the astonishing power of the human spirit.
In Theaters, On Digital and On Demand May 17
Criticólogos:
This is a scary situation. You play the friend of the victim. And you’re trying to do as much as you can to help, even though this is a work of fiction, this is something that has happened in real life, as scary as it seems. I want to ask. A person who has gone to this. What would you tell them? What piece of advice would you give them?
Fernanda Urrejola:
Whoa. I think in those kinds of situations people just react from their inner, uh, most primitive, uh, side. So it’s really hard, really hard to give some advice because I think when you’re in those types of stressful moments, you don’t even think you just go with it, right? Um, but what I must say about Jennifer is that her strength is her family. So for her, that’s where she got her energy to move forward to and to do all that she needed to do in order to save her daughter. What she needed and what she could, because she didn’t have a lot of tools at that moment to do more.
Criticólogos:
Let’s speak about Jennifer. what is it about the character? Obviously, she’s pregnant. She’s having to deal with a tough situation, having to deal with his daughter and his stepdaughter. And, you know, the whole situation that’s happening with his family. What is it about the character that when you saw the script, it was like, hey, this is something you must do?
Fernanda Urrejola:
Oh, because she’s a fierce mother. That’s what I wanted to do. Uh, and I love the emotional rights. So when I read those scenes, uh, for me, it was really fun to play, and that’s the things that I, that I want to keep doing, you know, like things that really make me connect in an emotional sense. That’s what I choose. And, this was also very interesting for me because I was going to act with one of my favorite actors that is J.K. Simmons. So yeah, I wanted to do it immediately.
Criticólogos:
And that brought me to the other question I wanted to ask about working with J.K. Simmons. how was working with somebody like him?
Fernanda Urrejola:
He’s unbelievable! Being with him, like it was a class from the start for me. Like, everything he did, I took it as a class, you know, like something to actually help my own career. So I was really aware of everything that he was doing. I was ilent, like I was really seeing how much I could interact with him, in and outside the scenes.
But I was responding to everything that he was giving me, and when you have an amazing actor in front of you, it’s really easy to connect to and to go with the flow. And that’s how I felt. Even though those things that are really, really hard, like because there’s very tension, there’s a lot of tension. And, and it was the physical scene. And when you don’t know someone, um, and it’s the first time that you’re acting with him, you have to understand the ways that the, that that he approached the scenes and he needed to be super clear of each movement. And that also helped me be more secure.
Criticólogos:
What do you expect people to take away from the story?
Fernanda Urrejola:
I really expect one, is for them to have a lot of fun. I really think that’s to start. But second, to be able to stop and reflect upon mental health, like to take a space and to have conversations and to really understand how critical this is now especially after Covid, after being in lockdown. But now with the kind of society that we built, with the kind of society that we live in now, we don’t take the space to connect. So that’s something that, for me, is very important about this film, that it will give you the chance to reflect on those themes.
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