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Garcia is well aware of the fragility of the ecosystem in which most independent movie deals are nurtured. Right now, we’re going to make it for $11 million to $12 million.” “I’d be happy if we could get to $15 million. “If this were a studio movie, it would probably cost $30 million to $40 million,” Garcia says. Sitting on the patio outside his office, Garcia pulls out an iPad and shows a set of photos of fishing skiffs being built for Fuente to pilot in the film, modeled after boats of the period, the late 1940s and early 1950s. Garcia’s production company has found and refurbished a couple of aging Wheeler Playmates to stand in for the 38-foot fishing boat, Pilar, that Hemingway owned and kept in Cuba and Key West. “I’m already four years into this project.” “If the movie gods are with us, we’ll shoot it at the end of the summer,” says Garcia. Garcia cowrote the script with Hilary Hemingway, the writer’s niece, and will star opposite Jon Voight later this year. Hemingway & Fuentes will focus on the Nobel laureate’s friendship with a Cuban fisherman who inspired him to write The Old Man and the Sea. Garcia is almost ready to take the plunge again, several years into the planning process, on his next film as a director. The movie gods seemed to be saying, ‘When you can play the piano, you can make this movie.’ The movie ended up taking me 16 years to make, and I ended up composing the original score on the piano. So when I was in Rome doing Godfather, I rented a piano and started bashing away on it, with two fingers, then three fingers. But we never had a piano in the house when I was growing up. “I was always interested in the piano my aunt and grandmother both played. “In the first draft of Lost City, the protagonist plays the piano and it’s pivotal,” Garcia recalls. Trained as a percussionist-he won a Grammy and was nominated for a second for producing albums by Cachao-he was taken aback when he first read the script by the late Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who died before the film was released. Garcia’s debut as feature director, the film was finally made and released in 2005.īut it took him so long to get the film up and running that he had time to learn to play the piano in the interim. He spent 16 years trying to make The Lost City, an elegiac drama about a way of life that disappeared when Fidel Castro toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista (before turning Cuba into a communist dictatorship of his own). That new feature-a film about Ernest Hemingway set in pre-Castro Cuba-will require exactly the kind of terrier-like persistence and passion for the projects that drove him to direct his first feature. He’s just completed a five-minute film about one of his favorite subjects, the late Cuban master musician Cachao, and he hopes to direct his second feature film before the end of the year. Two films in which he starred-At Middleton and Rob the Mob-will be released by the end of April. I always have things I want to do, films I want to make.”Īpproaching the age of 58, Andy Garcia is busier than ever. If they ran out of paint, then they’d sell something or borrow money-anything to get more paint. He draws on an Arturo Fuente Don Carlos and continues: “If you’re Modigliani or Picasso, you don’t wait for someone to hire you. But I can’t sit around and wait for the perfect creative opportunity.”
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If someone thinks of you for a part, great. That is something I can focus on, whether I’m acting, producing or directing. “In my case, I have ideas, passion and a lot of stories I want to tell or at least approach. “You can control what you decide to do with your life,” says the star known for such films as The Godfather: Part III, Ocean’s Eleven and its two sequels. He’s sitting in the yard behind the Sherman Oaks, California, house that is home to CineSon, his production company. Andy Garcia takes a sip of Havana Club Añejo Reserva rum and sets down the shot glass on the patio table.