Henry Zakka
According to Henry Zakka, an actor with a 46-year career path, the most important thing in his career is gratitude and remaining in vigor. Zakka, who is in Mexico since the early ending of the shooting of Como Tú No Hay Dos in March for Televisa, participated in #PRODUprimetime with Richard Izarra where he said that although his main career is acting, he is also a producer because you have to remain “alive, producing, and generating”.
“I don´t wait for the phone to ring. I am a sort of Bedouin, I have to make that call, I need the summon to exist,” he explains. He adds that this is the reason why he has Epic in Emotion, Shark in Dominican Republic, La Fundación, where they have managed to make three documentaries and two films in partnerships in five years.
He mentioned that the casting is being rethought. He wonders if the audience will accept these changes. “There is an ABC in love stories, how am I going to tell you `I love you´ standing three meters apart?” He detailed that they are doing self-tape castings where he has to adapt to the new protocols. If they ask you to do a self-tape for production in Madrid and we are in Mexico, you have to do it that way. Self-tape speeds production”.
Zakka, who achieved great international success with novelas such as Topacio and Cristal from Venezuela, highlighted that it is important to have made a comeback after so many years with products such as Amar a Muerte from W Studios and Lemon Studios for Televisa.
He feels that events like Mipcom, LA Screenings, and NATPE, will return. “There is a way to sell, that is hugging, kissing, look at what I’m writing, what I’m doing. That will make a comeback, I don’t know if in a different way, but it will come back,” he explained.
Watch interview with Henry Zakka on #PRODUprimetime with Ríchard Izarra
