Eduardo Noriega

Eduardo: (on his role in the movie Lobo) I didn't want to play the hero. I wanted to play a simple guy who is manipulated, who didn't know how far he was going to go. A guy who is trapped as an animal between two dangerous worlds much bigger than him. His story's really tragic. He spent two years inside ETA feeling fear. He had to act all the time, control his behaviour the whole time. And it's based on a subject really important to us in Spain.

Eduardo: (on playing Che Guevara) If I felt responsibility doing Lobo, imagine what I felt doing Che Guevara. The problem with Che is that now, he's everywhere in the world. He's a symbol, a myth. He's a symbol of so many things but not necessarily true things. Everybody thinks that they know Che Guevara but not so many people really know the story. I didn't want to play the poster, I wanted to play the man.

Eduardo: (on playing a real character in the movie El Lobo) I always feel the responsibility when I am working. It is going to be for ever. I take my job really seriously. But when it's a real character, it's bigger. It's a weird feeling knowing that someone is going to look at it and ask, 'is that me?.'

Eduardo: (on how he felt about watching his hero at work in Cameron Crowe's faithful but rather messy remake Vanilla Sky – a role Noriega originally made his own in Open Your Eyes) I felt really proud. If Tom Cruise thinks about a film I did it is a compliment. It's weird but it's okay. I have no problem if Tom Cruise wants to remake every movie I do.