Don’t assume that there isn’t a place for you in this world. There is, there is, but you have to make it. You have to make your place in this world. I come from a background in Chicago where I looked at the movies like this foreign country, there was no place for me there. And just through trying and staying optimistic and trying to grow as an actor, or as a human being, I made a place for myself at the table–John C. Reilly

Orson Welles’ troubled feature, The Other Side of the Wind, which was in production for 15 years, and then went into a limbo for four decades, was finally restored (in the best manner possible) and publicly unveiled, courtesy of Netflix (who else?), as a special event of the 2018 Venice Film Fest.

The real life character of Cleo, that for me was this nurturing, mothering presence. This film forced me to see her as a woman, and as a woman that comes from a disadvantaged social class, and also from indigenous heritage, living in a society where class, money, and race are directly related. So it was intense, and in some instances very painful–Cuaron

Orson Welles’ troubled feature, The Other Side of the Wind, which was in production for 15 years, and then went into a state of limbo for decades, was finally publicly unveiled, courtesy of Netflix, as a special presentation of the 2018 Venice Film Fest.

Our whole casting team went from little village to little village. That’s how we found Yalitza(who plays the lead). I asked Yalitza who her real best friend is and she introduced us to Nancy García, who in turn plays her best friend Adela in the movie–Cuarón.