Rome, October 17 (askanews) – Among the most anticipated stars at the Rome Film Fest, especially by the younger ones who loved her as Wednesday Addams in the TV series, Jenna Ortega arrived to present “Klara and the Sun,” alongside Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi, presented in the Grand Public section. The actress received a round of applause, arriving at the press conference wearing a short white dress with a design of concentric colored circles on one side, and generously accepted the many autographs requested by fans. The film is based on the bestseller by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ortega plays Klara, an Artificial Friend who is purchased to keep teenager Josie (Mia Tharia) company, who has a conflicted relationship with her mother (Amy Adams).
Not a cutting-edge robot, a slightly older but optimistic model, capable of showing a human family how to experience emotions and, above all, express them. "Her emotional intelligence and wonder for life are truly one of the story's strongest points," the 24-year-old actress said at a press conference. "Klara is able to recognize love in the people around her and, in a certain sense, guides them to reconnect with each other in this dystopian world where they previously ignored each other, perhaps because they were too self-absorbed.
I think it's sweet that he focuses on human connection, not artificial connection." Ortega, who rose to fame as Tim Burton's Wednesday, then joked when asked what would happen to an artificial friend like Klara in the hands of her Wednesday Addams character. "Well, he would definitely never speak and he would end up depressed," she said, then miming an explosion with her hands: "Maybe that's what it would be like."
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