When Sasha Calle was 18, she purchased herself a aircraft ticket to Los Angeles and moved from South Florida with the dream of changing into an actor. The now 29-year-old is days away from the theatrical launch of her star-studded movie “On Swift Horses,” cementing her as a must-see rising expertise.
“It’s a visit,” she says in a second of reflection.
Calle stars in “On Swift Horses” as Sandra, alongside Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter and Diego Calva. The story follows Muriel and Lee (Edgar-Jones and Poulter), a married couple who settle in California following the Korean Conflict. Lee’s brother, performed by Elordi, enters the image, making a slew of drama, all whereas Muriel begins her personal self-discovery and develops emotions for a neighbor, Sandra.
The position was one Calle wished so desperately that she didn’t enable herself to consider it an excessive amount of.
“I’ve this factor with auditions that’s form of like a boomerang: I simply form of throw it, and if it’s meant to return again, then I catch it, and this one was a kind of that got here again,” she says.
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Although the script went by way of varied modifications past what Calle first learn, her love for Muriel and Sandra’s relationship is what saved her invested.
“It’s a queer movie set within the ’40s and a time of oppression and a time the place it was harmful to be your self. It was harmful to like somebody that appeared such as you or had the identical elements as you,” Calle says. “And I discover that these tales are so vital to inform, and sadly, they’re nonetheless related right this moment. However I actually hope that folks can watch the film and really feel seen, as a result of I positively felt that with Sandra. I feel I knew that that’s why I wanted to play her, as a result of I simply felt her so near me.
“She’s a robust homosexual girl who loves ladies, and she or he loves music, and she or he looks like she’s in her physique and she or he’s pleased with who she is,” Calle provides. “What’s to not love?”
As a musician herself, Calle acquired into character by way of sharing songs backwards and forwards with Edgar-Jones, in addition to with director Daniel Minahan. Whereas Minahan’s selections had been time interval particular, comparable to “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” by Jimmie Rodgers, Calle and Edgar-Jones targeted extra on feeling.
“Daisy was actually beautiful in simply making a friendship with me, as a result of I feel that’s required. You’re connecting with somebody. You’re falling in love with somebody on the display, so having comfortability is the hope,” Calle says. “We each love music quite a bit, and we made a joint playlist as we had been filming and that was one thing that tied us as people, and I feel additionally tied our characters.”
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Calle beforehand was greatest recognized for enjoying Supergirl within the 2023 film “The Flash.” As a young person in South Florida, the daughter of a single mother, Calle initially targeted on music, “my divine pressure.”
“I by no means had cash to essentially pay for any lessons or coaching, and I lived in a spot the place arts weren’t actually [a focus]. I simply didn’t have the sources to do what I liked,” she says.
She utilized to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in L.A. for faculty and initially was rejected.
“I used to be heartbroken. I known as the faculty and spent an hour speaking to them about how they wanted to let me in,” she says. “On the time, I used to be elevating my little brother with my mother, I used to be working the identical job as my mother, and I simply felt in my chest that I wanted to create artwork, and I simply wanted someone to consider in me and I wanted to be taught.”
Calle would finally land herself a spot at AMDA, from which she graduated in 2017. Forward, she stars within the upcoming crime thriller “Rip” with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun and Teyana Taylor, and is at present filming the second season of the Colin Farrell-led collection “Sugar.” The present is filming round L.A., and a latest day on the job took her again to a road proper close to AMDA.
“It was a kind of moments of ‘Wow, 11 years in the past, you had been simply beginning on this school and also you had no thought, and also you solely simply wished,’” she says.
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