Edgar Ramírez on Falling for Jeddah’s “Sensorial Overload”
Edgar Ramírez shared his fascination with Jeddah during a talk at the Red Sea International Film Festival, reflecting on the city’s history and the warmth of its community.
The Venezuelan actor spoke about spending several hours exploring Jeddah, from visiting a mosque and wandering through its market to trying local food and experiencing the city’s customs.
Describing the experience as a “sensorial overload,” Ramírez said he enjoyed taking in everything the city had to offer.
From the interview
Full transcript · English
I'm so fascinated. I think as I was telling you yesterday that it was a brilliant idea. It's a brilliant idea to put together a film festival in a city that was ready. It was ready to welcome people from all over the world because you have been welcoming people from different worlds through centuries. And I think that actually we should know more about Jera. You know, even at the festival, because it's really interesting, the amount of history that this city has is incredibly rich. And the hospitality of the people, the food, the smells, the senses, I mean, it's a sensorial overload, which I love, because I'm very intense. So I can take it. And yesterday I spent, what, like six hours in the city? I talked to everyone. I tested everything. We had an amazing conversation. We went everywhere. We even went to the mosque. We saw people coming to prayer. We went to the market, to the soup. I cleaned my teeth with mustard root. It was, it was, it was fantastic, yeah.
