Eiza González, protagonist of “Ambulance”: “I am proud that Michael Bay shows a different female character”

He made the leap to popularity with Baby Driver: The Apprentice of Crime and gained a foothold with other film tanks, but it was with the repercussion of I Care A Lot, the Netflix film so talked about for weeks, that his face reached millions around the world. Today she is one of the Latin stars of Hollywood and is proud to be able to perform roles like the one she has in Ambulance: “Cam, my character, is the heart of the story, and her participation is really crucial. She is a woman who is not being beautiful or anything like that: she is dedicated to what she has to do.”

Alone with Infobae, on the subject of the film's release in all cinemas in Latin America, Eiza González praised the director: “There is no one who does action like Michael Bay”. The director of The Rock, Bad Boys and 13 Hours is synonymous with entertainment, but he is also one of the most important of the nineties and early 2000s, with works always outstanding on the commercial circuit.

Eiza knows Bay's career and admires his work: “He is the king of doing action, and the way he does. I had the opportunity to work with directors of that style, people like Robert Rodriguez or like him, and it's something super special.” Part of that feeling stems from Cam's meaning in the story: “I'm proud that Michael made a film like this, because it shows people a very different female character.”

In Ambulance, the Mexican actress is Cam, a young paramedic who works in the emergency room in Los Angeles. In a brief introduction of the character, she is considered one of the best in her own, even with records. She is held hostage by two thieves who steal the ambulance in which she works, after a blow does not go as planned, forced to escape.

The challenge was no less, and the context gave it more drama: “What we have been through in the last three years put a lot of pressure on me. When I read the script, I felt an urgent need to bring this character to life because that was just when we were going through the hardest part of the pandemic. There were no vaccines, people were crazy and I saw ambulances in Los Angeles here, ambulances here, people sacrificing their lives. When this script arrived I didn't hesitate for a second, and I fell in love with Cam.”

On training to play Cam, Gonzalez acknowledged that it was a tough process because it had to feel real, true. He had to get into ambulances, talk to doctors and surgeons, and all when California became the place with the most COVID-19 infections in the world. “I had a plastic arm in my house, which was given to me by one of my paramedics, and with a timer I did all the processes of putting a line in a vein,” she laughed as she recovered those memories. He added: “I prepared for months and months and months because I felt a lot of pressure. At the time we are living, I had to honor and give the right place to the people who have been sacrificing their lives.”

Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul Matten II star in the film alongside the Mexican actress. The three, today, are highly sought after figures in the film industry, but also dedicated to their work. None had any doubts about filming in the midst of a pandemic. “There was a special connection, because it was precisely the moment when no one else was without a mask. We were inside the ambulance 24 hours a day. Three months! We were very comfortable with each other. I feel that translates to the film,” González opened up and stressed the professionalism of his colleagues: “That situation, that discomfort we were experiencing, the fear we had of getting covid, what we could affect the project, etc., brought us together in a very unique way.”

The tension moves from the screen to the spectator in Ambulance. Beyond the camera direction, the actions of the characters and the central axis of the story, there was a fundamental factor for the actors to express their condition in that moment of stress, and this is how the young actress referred to the constant screams during the filming: “We got used to talking to Michael [Bay] like this. We get along really well. We talk to each other and we are very direct.”

Ambulance, Michael Bay's new film, is in every movie theater in Latin America.

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