“I remember being afraid. It was overwhelming. And then Damien just said, ‘Action,’ ” the actor recalls of his first day on set.
There was a “metafictional” element to Calva’s experience on Chazelle’s ambitious film. Like his character, Calva, 30, is a newbie to Hollywood suddenly in the orbit of some of the biggest stars in the business, in this case Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. Calva’s first day on theset was also Manny’s first day on a movie set. “I stepped out of my driver’s car and I saw this enormous desert with cranes and, like, 2,000 people there,” he says. “I remember being afraid. It was overwhelming.
Similar to Manny, Calva got his start in his home country by doing whatever would get him closest to film production, whether that be construction or catering. In fact, one of his early acting gigs in his home country came when he was operating the boom on a friend’s short film and stepped in for a performer who didn’t show up.
As Manny, who we meet hauling an elephant to a debauched Hollywood party, Calva is the audience’s eyes into the indulgent world of the silent era. But while other characters had direct historical analogues, Manny is entirely a creation of Chazelle and Calva. Chazelle gave Calva the go-ahead to create Manny’s backstory, and he did so by researching the Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine, now the home of Dodger Stadium.
As part of his process, Calva also went to the Los Angeles Zoo. “It was really cool to watch the elephant and then go back to my house and read the elephant scenes again with the notion of, OK, this is the size of an actual elephant,” he says. Calva didn’t have to spend much time developing a rapport with his co-star Robbie, who plays the wild-child actress for whom Manny falls hard. As soon as they met for the first time in Chazelle’s backyard, “something happened,” according to Calva.
This story first appeared in a Jan. stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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