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[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Culpa Tuya.]

Summary

• In the sequel ‘Culpa Tuya,’ Noah (Nicole Wallace) and Nick (Gabriel Guevara) face challenges in their romance as their parents try to keep them apart.
• The third part of the Culpables trilogy, ‘Culpa Nuestra’ has already been shot and is set for release in 2025.
• Nicole Wallace reflects on playing Noah for three films and shares love for the character’s strength.

The second film in the Culpables trilogy, Culpa Tuya, sees Noah (Nicole Wallace) and Nick (Gabriel Guevara) facing new challenges and obstacles to their romance. While their parents work to keep them apart, temptation and someone from the past also play a role, pushing their new relationship to the test in ways that seem insurmountable. With everything, Noah and Nick must decide if their love is worth fighting for.

Based on the popular book trilogy by Mercedes Ron, Noah and Nick’s story started in Culpa Mia and will come to its conclusion with Culpa Nuestra, which has already been shot and is expected to stream on Prime Video in 2025. In the meantime, Collider got the opportunity to chat one-on-one with Wallace about all things Culpables and what it’s been like to play Noah across three films.

During the interview, the rising star talked about why she loves Noah, the craziness of the success of the films, the launch of a UK version that will be out in February 2025, what she learned from her time on the TV series Skam España, and how she’s gained confidence in being a leading lady. The Spanish-American actress also discussed the fun of reliving teenage love, enjoying the stunts so much that she’d be down to do an action flick, the importance of Jenna’s friendship for Noah, the advice she’d give her character, how she feels about that iconic moment with Noah and Nick in the rain, how rewarding it was to complete Noah’s story with Culpa Nuestra, and her desire to cross over into Hollywood productions.

Nicole Wallace Loves the Strength of Her ‘Culpables’ Character Noah

Collider: I love the strength of your character. I love how she goes after what she wants and that she’s able to voice when she’s not happy. What have you loved about Noah, from day one? And what have you enjoyed about getting to explore that growth throughout the story?

NICOLE WALLACE: She’s a very strong character. She’s a very strong woman. I love so many things about her. Just being able to express every feeling that she has so directly and without second guessing is very beautiful and is something that sometimes I don’t do as well. Being able to do it through her has been very fulfilling. And seeing her growth, I’ve been with her for a little over two years, so it has been like seeing a friend grow and go through a breakup and go through everything that she goes through. She’s very strong in her vulnerability, and that’s something that I really like for other girls to look up to and see.

What has been most unexpected about the success of all this? The first film did so well that you pretty quickly got to make a trilogy. How has it been to step into this fandom that was already there and that’s really just built with the films?

WALLACE: Yeah, it’s crazy. It was my first film, ever. It’s not something that happens all the time. For an actress to do her first film and be a lead and for that to become known worldwide is something that I don’t really process. I’m actually processing these days when I’m doing the promotion. When I did the interviews last year, the film wasn’t out, and all of this hadn’t happened. So, I understand the growth of it now.

What is your reaction to there now also being a UK version, with My Fault: London? That’s something that sometimes takes years to happen, but we’re getting another version of this story already.

WALLACE: It’s interesting. I didn’t know about it until they were done filming and the whole thing was done. I think it’s fun for the world to keep growing and for there to be another. Obviously, it’s a very cool way to make everything go bigger and to even get the first movie to more places. But yeah, it’s weird because you normally would do it a couple years after you finish. But no, we don’t have any time to waste here.

You did the TV series Skam, early on in your career. What did you learn from playing that character, over a few seasons? What did you learn a lot about acting and being on a set, making that TV series, and did any of that help in stepping in to lead this?

WALLACE: I learned everything, completely. It was my first ever project. I had an amazing opportunity to work with these two wonderful directors and my whole career is because of them. Also, having other castmates that were new to this and we were all learning together was amazing. I learned everything that I know from Skam. I never took classes. I never did anything. I learned how to stand on my mark and wait for the sound to go away. It was like a masterclass for me, being able to do that for two years in a very safe environment and in an amazing workplace. I’m very grateful for that project.

‘Culpa Tuya’s Nicole Wallace Is Finding Her Confidence as a Leading Lady

The first film was the first time you led a film set. How different did it feel to walk onto the set of the second film? Did you feel more confident and more centered as a leading lady, the second time around?

WALLACE: Yes, 100%. I don’t know if this is a good thing, but I’ve always been into leadership. I’ve always been the person to start projects in school and do all that type of stuff. So, I do feel comfortable in that place. After the first one, I also did a TV show where I was the lead and I worked on a couple more things. And then, I came onto this set and I did feel more confident, especially in my talent and in my voice, and with how to move around a set and how to understand what was going on. But yes, I did feel more confident, thankfully.

In the first movie, Noah and Nick (Gabriel Guevara) had to sneak around, so that their parents didn’t know what was going on between them. And in this movie, it’s a bit more of a reality check. She’s graduated high school and turned 18, and he’s working for his father. What was it like to explore this side of them and have them clashing with each other while they’re still trying to figure out who they are?

WALLACE: It’s one of my favorite things, a coming of age story and being able to do that at the same time with a relationship. That period when you turn 18, and you go through all of this, is very life-changing for a person and for a teenager. When I went through it, it was a complete drift of my personality. I learned so much about myself and what I wanted, and what I didn’t want, in relationships and everything. So, it’s very cool to be able to go back and do it again, but just with none of the consequences of it. Just being able to see it from a different perspective, it’s very beautiful, and I think it’s very well done in the film.

Noah is not the only someone who finds herself in car races, but she knows cars and can race herself. Did you know anything about cars or care about them at all before doing this? Is there a stunt or something involving the cars that you got to do, that you had the most fun with?

WALLACE: I’m not a car girl. I wouldn’t say that I’m a car nerd. I do like cars. I do like driving a lot, actually, and I do think I’m a good driver. I don’t know much about cars, and I didn’t learn much about cars for the film, either. In the first film, I did get to do more stunts and more driving scenes. With this one, since we were filming the second one and the third one (Culpa Nuestra) at the same time, we really didn’t have enough time to spend on those scenes, so we did it all on a set with screens and lights and stuff.

Nicole Wallace Would Be Game To Do a Big Action Movie

Did it inspire you, at all, to want to be an action star? Would you want to do a whole movie as an action lead?

WALLACE: Actually, when I was on [the promo] tour, one of the movies I kept watching on the airplane was Charlie’s Angels, and I would love to do a Charlie’s Angels reboot. They’re so cool and so badass. I do have so much fun doing those types of scenes, so I would love to do any type of action or superhero thing. You get to look super cool. Why wouldn’t I want that?

The one constant that Noah has in these movies is Jenna (Eva Ruiz). What do you like about that relationship and getting to explore their friendship?

WALLACE: I love it. It’s such a good thing, in a teenage movie, to have two girls that are never against each other and that are always together and always have each other’s backs. Even if one of them does something wrong, they always accept and love each other, which I think is so important to have in real life. They’re two very different girls that have two very different lives, but that found each other. We all have that person, so it’s very nice to see it in a movie.

What Advice Would Nicole Wallace Give Her ‘Culpa Tuya’ Character Noah When It Comes to Her Relationship With Nick?

It’s hard to have and maintain a relationship when your parents are all working against you. If you were a friend of Noah’s during the time of this second film, what advice would you give her?

WALLACE: I would probably tell her, “If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. If it’s meant to happen, then it will happen. What is for you is for you, even if people try to take it away from you.” I would tell her, “Focus on you. Focus on yourself right now. Focus on your school and on your passion and your friends and knowing yourself. If Nick is going to be, then he’ll be. You have time for that.” That’s probably my advice.

How did you feel about the ending of this movie? There’s a lot of drama that happens at the end of the film, so thankfully we’re getting a third film, Culpa Nuestra, to tie everything up. What was it like to have that scene in the rain? That’s such an iconic movie moment.

WALLACE: Yeah, it is. It was a very hard scene to film because it was raining a lot. It was 2am in the middle of winter in Madrid, which is completely freezing. I had a wetsuit under the jacket that I was wearing. It was very bad. I was very sick afterward. It was horrible. But it is iconic and it looks amazing. I love it. I actually really like that after everything happens, they actually don’t even talk to each other when it ends. She just passes through him. I don’t think Noah has any guilt. She did what she was feeling and what she wanted to do in the moment, with the hurt that she was feeling and the way that everyone acted. I like that she doesn’t say, “Sorry,” and she doesn’t try to beg for forgiveness. She doesn’t really feel sorry because she doesn’t really feel like she did anything wrong. I really like that scene. It was really cool.

The ‘Culpables’ Trilogy Will Be Complete With the Release of ‘Culpa Nuestra’ in 2025

What was it like for you to complete telling this story? How hard is it to say goodbye to a character that you’ve played for three movies?

WALLACE: It was very rewarding to finish filming. I haven’t seen the third one, but when I see it, I think I’ll feel very proud. I’ll probably cry. It’s been such a long journey and such a roller coaster of a journey, trusting myself as a young actress in this whole crazy trip that has been this trilogy. It has a bittersweet taste to it. It’s very sad to say goodbye to a character, but at the same time, I’m dying to do other characters. I’m excited for fans to have the whole thing.

Do you know what you’re going to be doing next? Are you hoping to also cross over into Hollywood productions now?

WALLACE: I just finished filming The House of Spirits (La Casa de los Espíritus) for Prime. It was amazing to be able to do that. Those were very, very hard shoes to try to fill, playing Meryl Streep’s character, Clara del Valle. For the next year, the main objective is to try to take advantage of my American roots and be able to work there. I’m also very excited to rest.

Culpa Tuya is available to stream on Prime Video. Check out the trailer:

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