Jaime Newball, credited with ‘Sound of Freedom’

Panamanian actor Jaime Newball, with more than 20 years in the acting world and a filmography that includes domestic and international productions, is convinced that “The Sound of Freedom” will generate greater awareness of a problem that can affect us all.

“The Sound of Freedom”, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and produced by Eduardo Verastegui, is a film about human trafficking, in this case children, in which Newball is credited.

Newball commented Panama America that one of the reasons why people should watch the film is the subject it deals with. Everyone involved in the project knows something about their reality and has an idea of ​​what human trafficking wave sexual exploitation of childrenHowever, the tape is for the purpose of raising awareness, it gives you reality slapNewball explained

“(…) You can do something to change, be part of it solution to the problemit’s not a problem,” said the actor, who has credits in productions such as “Suicide Squad 2”, “Half and half” and “At the Emperor’s”.

With all the attention that is movieThe Panamanian believes that it is an important moment to raise awareness of Fr problematic which affects thousands of children around the world, something he considers unfortunate, therefore he argued that they should be demanded policies that protect the childthat this crime does not go unpunished.

As for his involvement in the production, Newball explained that Juan Pablo Rincón, the director castingexpressed interest in him playing Bam Bam, one of the bad guys, after viewing his profile on books operation of “Creando Panamá”, a place chaired by Yiniva Cárdenas.

The Panamanian sent his video casting in English, met for two or three weeks at Colombia with the director, they interviewed him and he did the scene again, then it took a while until they confirmed that he was cast.

“I am a guerrilla, a man who is in the middle of the Colombian jungle, I belong to a gang of bad guys,” said the actor, who assured that in his career he has made several bad rolesHe has already come to terms with that, he understands that it is not something personal, it is a matter of profile, his body structure, facial features and the tone of voice that arouses great attention among these characters.

For three weeks in 2018, Newball was in Colombia to film his scenes and at the same time production was coming to an end filmingsince then it took a long time to “The Sound of Freedom” will come to China. It will be released in Panama next month, August 31st, and even the actor thought it wouldn’t happen.

In the end, the Panamanian remembered the two anecdotes that happened during filming, the first was when they were doing the scene in the river, where he was standing in the boat, armed and against the current, also, his character had to scare Jim Caviezel (Passion of Christ), the main character of the film. “(…) There were many elements that could play against you,” he admitted.

Another anecdote was when before filming started he was asked to do a whole scene in Spanish, it was a bit complicated for a second, since he had learned most of his dialogue in English, although I had freedom to make a combination of Spanish and English, so he had to make a change chip and translate everything you have learned with the tension not to make mistakes.