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Chile’s Antonia Zegers, Star of Pablo Larrain’s ‘The Club,’ Boards Peruvian helmer Joanna Lombardi’s ‘The Comeback’(EXCLUSIVE)


Chilean actress Antonia Zegers, a Pablo Larrain regular and lead of Lucia Puenzo’s ‘La Jauria,’ has boarded Joanna Lombardi’s ‘The Comeback.’

Zegers, who also toplined Lucia Puenzo ’s lauded series “The Pack” (“La Jauria”) serves as a juror at the Ibero-American Fiction section of the ongoing 40 th Guadalajara Film Festival(FICG), wrapping on June 14. As the city celebrates Aug. 28th, which marks the anniversary of Tacna’s return to Peru after its war with Chile, her plans are upended by her sister’s sudden illness, forcing Martha to stay in the place she hoped to leave behind. Chile’s Florencia Larrea(“My Tender Matador”) and Uruguay’s Agustina Chiarino of Bocacha Films (“Agárrame fuerte”), both key drivers of Latin American cinema, have also boarded as co-producers.

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