Woody Allen, meet Martina Garcia. She’s a sexy Colombian- born actress who wants nothing more than to be in one of your movies.
“Who wouldn’t?” she asked me rhetorically during a brief encounter at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. It was there that the Spanish movie “The Mosquito Net,” in which she has a lead role, took the top prize last weekend. (Agusti Vila directed.)
Garcia, 27, plays Ana, a maid who has an affair with her male employer. But that’s nothing. The mistress of the house gets it on with her son’s best male buddy.
Garcia appeared in Colombian telenovelas before graduating to the big screen. She now lives in Barcelona with her youngest brother, and also spends time in Mexico and Paris.
Garcia walked the red carpet in Cannes in May to promote another movie, “Biutiful,” which stars Javier Bardem. “I have a small role, but I can’t talk about it,” she insisted.
Allen isn’t the only director she’d love to work with. There’s also Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier (Garcia would gladly have taken the lead female role in “Antichrist,” which she calls one of her favorite films of all time) and Abel Ferrara (“His movie ‘Ms. 45’ made me want to become an actress”).
There are a lot of animals in “The Mosquito Net” — the family has five dogs and two cats — which suited Garcia just fine.
“I really love and care about animals. I’ve been a vegetarian for 10 years and I’m against animal testing.”
When not working, Garcia enjoys movies, the theater, traveling, writing and reading Camus and Nietzsche. She’s clearly a beauty with brains.
Interview over, the actress offered me both cheeks to kiss. And you wonder why I love my job.
V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com