For Garcia Bernal, film is 'Mammoth'-ly provocative
NEW YORK - Gael Garcia Bernal calls his latest film "provocative."
The Mexican actor says that he knew what he was getting into when he chose to work on "Mammoth" with Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, whose previous films have covered such subjects as forced prostitution and amateur porn.
"I definitely knew that it was going to be a confrontational film, that it was going to be provocative in a certain way," Garcia Bernal told the Associated Press in Spanish during a recent phone interview from Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he is filming a new movie.
He said that Moodysson's work "profiles people in a sharp, vulnerable way that many people can find irritating, while many others can love."
"Mammoth," which opened on Friday in selected U.S. cities, centers on a successful married couple in New York: Leo (Garcia Bernal), creator of a booming Internet site who begins to feel trapped in the rat race, and Ellen (played by Michelle Williams, ex-fiancee of the late Heath Ledger), a self-sacrificing surgeon who spends long shifts saving lives in the emergency room.
