Angels- Demián Bichir tragically lost his wife after the suicide on April 20, 2019. His wife, the Canadian actress and model Stefanie Sherk, was only 37 years old when she died.
Shortly after the same year, Robin Wright asked the Mexican actor if he would be interested in starring with her in his first film, the drama “Land.”
When Bichir realized that the story was about two strangers recovering from the loss of their husbands and children, Wright says the Oscar-nominated Mexican actor felt he had to.
“We are all suffering an irreparable loss. Yes or no, at some point in our lives, this will happen, whether we like it or not. It’s a fact. Whether it happens early or late in life, we are never ready. People … we celebrate and prepare for a birth, but we are not prepared to go through a loss. “That’s one of the things that caught my eye when I read the script for Land,” Bichir said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
In the film, Wright plays Edee, a woman who lost her husband and son in a mass shooting and, feeling unable to cope with the loss, moves to a secluded cottage in the mountains. There he meets Bichir’s character, Miguel, a man who lost his wife and son in a car accident. As Miguel teaches him the skills needed to survive in the wild, the two develop a bond and gradually begin to heal each other.
“I often say that sometimes the characters find me, they come to me. And when Robin invited me on this adventure, it practically happened when George Clooney invited me to do “Midnight Sky” (“Midnight Sky”). These two films deal with the same issues, “said the Mexican Oscar-nominated actor.
Bichir filmed “Land” and “The Midnight Sky” in succession after Sherk’s death.
In Clooney’s film, a post-apocalyptic story about an angry scientist trying to alert a team of astronauts about a mysterious catastrophe on Earth, Bichir plays one of the most experienced astronauts on the mission.
“We go through various pains and sufferings throughout our lives and move on. And then we understand that we depend on each other, “said the artist, whose credits also include” A Better Life “,” The Hateful Eight “and” The 8 most hated. ” Nun “(” Monahia “).
“We are on the same planet,” he added. “This is our great opportunity to show solidarity and empathy.”
During the pandemic, doing so is as simple as wearing a mask when leaving home, he said.
“And I think Land is talking about it. We talked about how important it is to receive empathy and help from others in the healing process, “said Bichir. “It simply came to our notice then. We are who we are. We are here for each other and few people understand that. “
“Land” opens in theaters in the United States and Canada on February 12, and in England and Ireland on April 9. “The Midnight Sky,” which premiered in December, is available on Netflix.