B-movie lovers know Analía Ivars mostly for her roles in films by Jess Franco from his 80’s and 90’s era. While some of them were prominent, there is very little information about this actress online, apart from pages listing her filmography and two video interviews in Spanish. I decided to fix this by interviewing Analía, and what I learned about her only confirmed the unfairness of the lack of information about this hard-working, highly professional, creative, intelligent, and brave woman. So let’s get down to business and learn more about Analía Ivars. As far as I know, your acting career started with theater. How did you become an actress? The truth is that my professional acting career began in film, alongside Jess Franco. Later on, I did theater. How did you start acting in cinema? I was discovered by Jess's makeup artist in a shoe store while I was shopping — Juana De la Morena, the late wife of Antonio Mayans. She came up to me and asked if I w...