Giannina
Esquivel, the actress from Costa Rica, was recently asked what advice she would
give to aspiring performers. Her sage answer sounded as if she was describing
herself and how she maintains her professional acting career. She basically
said: an actor should be prepared to work
diligently, and to keep an open mind, open to all the different learning
opportunities that life has to offer. Sometimes the key to a character or the
solution to a problem can come from the most unlikely source. The moment we set
aside our ego and learn to listen is an important one for actors.
We have been
following Ms. Esquivel for some time and each one of the elements she mentioned
could be taken from her life. She is definitely a diligent worker. That is, she
always comes to a movie set or location very well prepared. She even knows the
other actors’ lines. She has always had an open mind and that can be seen
clearly if you just glance at her academic resumé. She took acting classes when
she was fifteen at a Connecticut boarding school and watched all the great
classic movies with her parent while she was growing up. Then, having a very
open mind, she flew to Los Angeles when she was old enough and signed up for
acting classes at the famed New York Film academy.
Was that enough
for this brilliant actress? Of course, it wasn’t! She went on to Swarthmore
College and majored in Theatre. After graduation she studied at BADA, British
American Dram Academy at Oxford, England. Obviously, Giannina loves to travel
too. She then jetted back to L.A. and signed up for the two-year acting
intensive at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting. While there she realized that
she was learning more about the art and craft of acting than she had learned in
all the other schools she had attended, which is no small thing to say.
Giannina has
been in numerous films, commercials and theatrical stage productions. One of
her films, Insomnio, produced and
shot in Costs Rica, premiered in the country’s capital San Juan and was greeted
with high praise and great reviews. She is proud of all of her work but being
able to be a part of Costa Rica’s film industry awakening has been an
especially moving moment for her. She loves Los Angeles and loves being at the
hub of the film industry but Costa Rica will always have a special place in her
heart.
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