{"id":257328,"date":"2026-01-25T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:12:10","slug":"alberto-guerra-talks-ha-chan-shake-your-booty-at-sundance-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257328\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Guerra Talks ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ at Sundance 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tName: Alberto Guerra<\/p>\n

\n\tNotable past projects: The Cuban actor has starred in Netflix series including \u201cGriselda\u201d with Sof\u00eda Vergara<\/a>, Mexican thriller \u201cThe Accident\u201d and \u201cNarcos: Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSundance project: \u201cHa-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,\u201d which premiered as part of the festival\u2019s U.S. dramatic competition. Set in Tokyo\u2019s ballroom dance scene, the film<\/a> stars Oscar-nominated Rinko Kikuchi as a widow navigating grief who begins working with a new tango instructor, played by Guerra.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u200a\u201dThis is the journey of a woman who\u2019s not scared to feel and to show her emotions,\u201d Guerra says. \u201cAnd at some point in her journey be open to, \u2018OK, let\u2019s try new things.\u2019 The whole movie is packed with metaphors and beautiful wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWalking up and down Main Street in Park City after the premiere, the actor was moved by how many people were stopping him in the street to applaud the film<\/a>\u2019s message. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne of the messages of the movie is it\u2019s OK to be messy sometimes,\u201d Guerra says. \u201cWe wanted to show that not every process has to be as painful as it looks from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGuerra credits writer-director Josef Kubota Wladyka\u2019s approach to the \u201cserious and painful\u201d subject of loss and grief. \u201cHe made her journey through grief be fun and entertainment, and still very deep and emotional at the same time,\u201d says the actor. \u200a\u201dThrough her imagination and her dreams and her nightmares and her disordered reality, it\u2019s a beautiful cinematic experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is anchored in several dance sequences, an experience that took Guerra out of his comfort zone as an actor.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"at<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAlberto Guerra<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200aI\u2019m Cuban, and there is this misconception that every Latino, especially Cubans, we know how to dance. Well, not me, I don\u2019t know how,\u201d says Guerra, who worked with choreographers over the course of the two-month rehearsal process. \u201cIt was quite the experience to be a Latino and going to Japan and learning over there, in Japan, how to tango and how to mambo, how to cha-cha, from the ballroom dance perspective. That was hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor also appreciated how his role subverts common portrayals of Latino characters onscreen. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u200a\u201dUsually it involves violence and it involves a harsh reality. And this was not about that,\u201d he says. \u201cThis was about dancing. This was about human beings connecting to each other from different levels. It\u2019s about how complex we all are and how we connect to each other. At the end of it, we all help each other, even if we don\u2019t know each other, to go through life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the festival, Guerra was heading home to Mexico City to spend time with family. He was several projects coming out this year, including series \u201cMIA\u201d for Peacock and a campaign for Dolce & Gabbana that will launch in February.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was so busy for almost four years out of home, working all over the place, that I really want to take a few months just to hang out with my kids,\u201d he says, adding that the downtime also supports his creative endeavors. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a life, you don\u2019t have a life to tell.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"at<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tat Sundance 2026 on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland\/WWD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Name: Alberto Guerra Notable past projects: The Cuban actor has starred in Netflix series including \u201cGriselda\u201d with Sof\u00eda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,79812,878,85,46,48764],"class_list":["post-257328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-eye-interview","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}