Walking out of Miss Bala after it screened at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, two things stood out in my mind. The first was the beautiful camera work. The second was the staggering lead performance. Loosely based on the experiences of a real life Miss Hispanic America, Gerardo Naranjo’s film tells the tale of a beauty pageant contestant caught up for three harrowing days in the brutal Mexican drug war. And in the part of the model turned drug mule, in her first major screen role: model turned actor Stephanie Sigman.
In the lead up to the film’s Australian theatrical release at Melbourne’s Cinema Nova next week, I had the chance to talk to Stephanie about her role. Check out our discussion, below.
Tom Clift: What was the casting like?
Stephanie Sigman: It was crazy! The auditioning process was long and hard, because they were auditioning for ten months. I did my first audition and then the second one, and then met the director, and then they weren’t sure about it and so kept going with the auditions. So in the end it took like ten months to get the part.
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