Spoonbat found a couple great articles about “NY, I Love You” from Spanish sites. The second will be posted a bit later but this first one is about dancer, Carlos Acosta, whom Natalie cast in short that she directed.

That was my debut as an actor. I must say I was very nervous, it was my first experience of this type, but she always trusted me, in spite of the fact that the producers recommended that she selected a professional actor, because of dancing she was able to “barter”. However, Natalie did not want to change her mind, knew I could do it, and eventually succeeded.

The full translated article is after the jump.

My relationship with cinema is nothing new, “says Acosta, who recently finished filming Day flowers in the Cuban capital. It began when Natalie Portman started called me, in 2007. He returned to London after having danced somewhere I cannot remember, and I was entering the airport when I received her call on his cell phone. It was to say to me that she had a project and that she had written the story with me in mind. We talked; she explained the plot to me and discussed some possible dates for the filming. Then she travelled to England.

The film will be released soon, two years after having filmed it. It’s called New York, I love you, and consists of short films from five to seven minutes, led by several directors. In mine, where I am leading, there are only 20 seconds of dance, the rest is a performance. It turns out that in the film I am a ballet dancer who has been in charge of his daughter after the failure of his marriage. His wife, tired of being with a man who scarcely manages to work, decides to leave him for a banker.

That was my debut as an actor. I must say I was very nervous, it was my first experience of this type, but she always trusted me, in spite of the fact that the producers recommended that she selected a professional actor, because of dancing she was able to “barter”. However, Natalie did not want to change her mind, knew I could do it, and eventually succeeded.