¿Querés ser mi hijo?: Wanda Nara and Love Without Prejudice

A woman trying to win back her ex-husband ends up falling in love with a neighbor twenty years her junior: that's the premise of ¿Querés ser mi hijo?, the romantic comedy starring Wanda Nara and Agustín Bernasconi, directed by Hernán Guerschuny. Through generational differences and social expectations, the film explores relationships that challenge convention. Speaking to Time Out, the stars and director discuss their characters, the prejudices at the heart of the story and the challenges of bringing it to the big screen.

Wanda Nara and Agustín Bernasconi Make Their Film Debuts

¿Querés ser mi hijo? also marks the big-screen debut of Wanda and Agustín, who are taking their first steps into cinema with a story that will soon reach audiences. "A little nervous, but happy. We've been looking forward to releasing this film, which has had us excited ever since we started shooting. It's a beautiful story with an incredible cast," the actor shared.

The upcoming premiere has also made him realize what it means to appear on the big screen for the first time. "I'm ten days away from my cinema debut. It's crazy," Bernasconi admitted. Having already watched the film in a movie theater, he described the experience as overwhelming. He also reflected on how his perspective on his own work has changed and how he learned to move beyond excessive self-criticism. "I learned to be kinder to myself. I think I learned to watch it from the outside, the way audiences do, or the way I watch someone else. You're not as critical of every little detail, and that helped me loosen up a bit," he explained.

Speaking about his co-star, Bernasconi highlighted the connection they developed during filming and admitted he was surprised by her down-to-earth personality. "When you hear the name Wanda Nara, you imagine a world completely different from your own, naturally, because of everything surrounding her. But I met someone incredibly down-to-earth, very much like me, relaxed and low-key," he shared.

A Love Story That Challenges Prejudice

The age gap between the protagonists is one of the film's central themes. For Wanda Nara, the conflict also exposes the double standards society applies to romantic relationships, particularly when a woman chooses a younger partner.

"Women are judged for so many things that men aren't, and a woman dating a younger man gets singled out. An older man with a younger woman... nobody says anything," she told Time Out.

For Lucía, that age difference also translates into different habits, expectations and life plans. "For Lucía, it's a major challenge. The age difference, their different habits, the plans each of them might have and their ideals. Above all, their ways of living," Nara explained.

"Women are judged for so many things that men aren't"

Hernán Guerschuny: Adapting a Story and Creating New Characters

For director Hernán Guerschuny, bringing this story to Argentine audiences meant preserving the original premise while creating a film with its own identity. "What we found most interesting was the film's disruptive nature, this powerful concept of a woman falling in love with a younger man," he explained.

But keeping that premise didn't mean simply reproducing the original formula. The director sought to adapt the story to local sensibilities, with humor rooted in irony and double meanings. "The adaptation work we did was essentially about giving it a much more Argentine tone, one that's more grounded in irony, double entendres and things left unsaid," he noted.

Beyond the premise, Guerschuny focused on creating characters with contradictions and emotional depth. "The most interesting thing stops being that high concept and becomes creating characters the audience can empathize with, characters in whom you can find contradictions, those little cracks that make a character feel alive," he said.

For the director, that complexity is essential to understanding Lucía's journey. Behind her initial intention to win back her ex-husband lies another search: to stop living in his shadow and discover her own identity.

"What she's really looking for is to become someone in her own right, to stop living in her husband's shadow and find herself," he explained. Along the way, the character's contradictions become central: "A good character always has a relationship between their desires and their contradictions, and that's when they start to come alive."

The Challenge of Playing Lucía

The project also marked Wanda Nara's film debut, requiring her to prepare for entirely unfamiliar territory. The process involved voice exercises, script comprehension and character development.

"It took a lot of work, a lot of preparation. Dedication and, above all, stepping outside my comfort zone and preparing myself for something completely unknown, extremely demanding and of such a high professional standard," she recalled.

Guerschuny acknowledged that directing Wanda Nara presented a double challenge: it was her first acting experience, and there were also preconceived ideas surrounding her public persona. "Audiences came with a whole set of prejudices when sitting down to watch a film starring Wanda Nara," he explained.

"Audiences came with a whole set of prejudices when sitting down to watch a film starring Wanda Nara"

For the director, the process is something of a craft: "It's an almost poetic construction, where you have to create someone who feels alive but, at the same time, has their own characteristics that distinguish them from reality."

Beyond technical aspects such as intonation and voice control, the focus was on ensuring that Nara understood the script, each scene and what Lucía was experiencing at every moment. For Guerschuny, the process had one particular advantage: approaching acting through play, without the previous experience that can sometimes constrain more seasoned performers. "A child plays, and that's how I approached it, basically through play. That was a huge advantage because that's how we tackled the whole process," he explained.

Combining romance and humor, ¿Querés ser mi hijo? brings to light the prejudices surrounding relationships and the contradictions that arise when our desires take an unexpected turn. A romantic comedy that invites audiences to question how much of what we believe about love comes from our own desires, and how much is shaped by other people's expectations.

FILM DETAILS

• Year: 2026

• Runtime: 95 minutes

• Genre: Romantic comedy

• Cast: Wanda Nara, Agustín Bernasconi, Jean Pierre Noher, Charo López

• Director: Hernán Guerschuny

• Original Concept: Ihtzi Hurtado

• Screenplay Adaptation: Sofía Szelske, Hernán Guerschuny

• Production Companies: Amazon MGM Studios, IP4 Media, Zeppelin Studio, Cimarrón Cine, FilmSuez and Telefe Studios

• Producers: Pablo Iacoviello, Lucas Jinkis, Santiago López, Mariano Suez, Pablo Ini, Diego Robino, José Bastón, Fernando Szew, César Rodriguez and Miriam Luciow