2024-01-12 15:59:17
He returns to the theater four years after the premiere of ‘Prostitution’, his last project on stage, directed by Andres Limawith which he toured until 2022. He does so with ‘Our hidden acts’, a thriller written to suit him by the Argentine director and playwright Lautaro Perotti, with whom he repeats after ‘Chronology of the Beasts’, and in which he shares the stage with Santi Marin y Macarena Garcia, his ‘daughter’ in ‘The Messiah’ and with whom he has, also here, a complex and tormented relationship. Inspired by ‘Yerma’, by Lorca, ‘Our hidden acts’ premieres in the Spanish Ships in Matadero of Madrid on January 16 and it is a story about the desire to be a mother and about the desire not to be one, about mental deterioration and the deterioration of our ties, about the inability to speak and about those dreams that, from being manipulated so much, , they have become ghosts.
He has been working since he was 17 years old, he has done theater, film and television, He has won a Goya, three Max and the Valle-Inclán de Teatroit is nominated at the Feroz Awards for best supporting actress for her work in La Mesías and has, on the horizon, the premiere of two films – ‘Summer in December’, by Carolina África and ‘We treat women too well’, by Clara Bilbao – but the Machia wonderful actress, is one of those artists who you ask what professional moment she is in and she tells you: “I look back and look at today, and the truth is that I am very lucky with the projects and with the people with whom what work”.
Surely those projects are also lucky to have you, right?
Well, but they are the ones who call me and, really, what luck that I happen to them.
Who is Azucena, her character in Our hidden acts?
This function is offered to me by Lautaro Perotti after Beast Chronologys and he also wrote it thinking about me and a specific cast, but at that moment we all had a lot of iron and we left it aside. And being in a pandemic I say, how do I suddenly feel like doing something with very close friends… And I called Lau and we said, hey, what are we doing with this function? Shall we give it a chance again? This Azucena is a woman artist, a pianist with a certain frustration because she does not develop her career as she wanted or as she could, due to family circumstances, because she was a mother and has a somewhat relationship with motherhood. heavy. He has complicated human relationships, he manages affection very rarely, but he madly loves a person who is not of his blood, the character of Santi Marín [un joven discapacitado al que quiere como un hijo].
It is very difficult to accept on a social level that a mother publicly says that she does not love her daughter. This is not the case, because she does love her, of course she loves her, but they barely have a bond. That, socially, we don’t fit in well.”
The work, inspired by Barren, talks about motherhood, but also about the family as hell and sick bonds. Your daughter wants to be a mother, you don’t love her daughter, and everyone seems emotionally crippled.
Yes, it is true that it is very difficult to accept on a social level that a mother publicly says that she does not love her daughter. This is not the case, because she does love her, of course she loves her, but they barely have a bond. That, socially, we don’t accept well. The thing is that this woman, this mother, had talent. That is the problem, she is a person who gets frustrated, who considers that she does not receive support from anywhere, that she did not have wings to fly and that, if she had not been a mother, perhaps she would have had more opportunities.
Her character blames motherhood for not having succeeded.
Completely. Which is stupid, but in his case, the relationships he has, as you said, are so complicated because they don’t get to say things to each other, because they haven’t known how to love each other, they haven’t known how to understand each other, they haven’t known how to communicate.
Reading the text I thought that this is also a work about illness and old age…
Now that there is a lot of talk about mental health, that is what is happening to her, yes, although she does not receive the support she needs because they believe she is an alcoholic, but she has Alzheimer’s. And she is a young woman, 65 years old, but the big thing about her is that she is aging neurally, she is running out of weapons to live and she is left speechless, of course. The thing is that it is ‘dominant’ and can be sarcastic, but she is fragile.
She is his second mother with mental illness after the one he plays in The Messiah and, furthermore, in this work he reunites with his daughter in the series, Macarena García. How did she experience that moment when they stopped offering her roles as her daughter and instead offered her those of her mother?
Well, what joy and how beautiful. It’s a very good sign. The terrible thing would be if they stopped calling you because you could only play the daughter. Well, I have been a mother since I was very young and a grandmother, but I don’t want you to think that it is something traumatic. The luck is that they continue writing interesting mothers. Because it is not about playing a mother, but about playing a woman who, apart from that, is a mother.
Are you aware that it is a box office guarantee?
No, I know that, I don’t know if I’m a guarantee, but today it seems that one sells, for whatever reason. I don’t know, the truth is that maybe so. I don’t think about it. What do you want me to tell you, that I’m a super box office hitter?
One should be proud of that, right?
What do you want me to say…
Well, he has worked a lot to make that happen, for example.
No, to me… It makes me ashamed, it makes me very ashamed.
Because?
Because I am very modest and very shy and these things make me very ashamed. Imagine that there is a headline that says: I am a high-grosser. I would never say that, it’s not my way of speaking. You ask me: “do you know that you are a high-grosser?” But do you know that those questions cannot be asked? (Laughs) Don’t ask me that because I’m just going to tell you that it’s great that people go to the theater and, if I contribute to that, then great. But the word blockbuster… I’m not going to say that, you say it for me, but I’m not going to say it.
Are you also embarrassed that they call you Machi, which is like saying Espert, that there is only one and it is huge?
Do you know what happens? That all my life at school they have called me Machi, Machi is coming. So I don’t associate it with something of greatness. And that also seems silly to me.
Does the diva stereotype bother you?
No, no, I’m not a diva.
[El estereotipo de diva] I’m lazy, all that has nothing to do with me, really. Because when you feel that you are that, you also feel that you are above something, and that seems terrifying to me in a work that is absolutely collective.”
I’m referring to that image of a star and almost a myth that is sometimes projected onto some actresses.
I’m lazy, all that has nothing to do with me, really. Because when you feel that you are that, you also feel that you are above something, and that seems terrifying to me in a job that is absolutely collective and in which you need the person next to you like May water. And I know it’s something that people mention, but believing it seems ridiculous to me. It’s not that I’m humble, it’s that this is a dizzying place where you have to do very well every day for it to make sense for you to get paid.
And then what a burden it is to not disappoint, right?
That’s what happens. I have done theater all my life and it is something that, when you become well known for audiovisuals, puts your feet on the ground a lot. When you work in film or television, a production car takes you home, another takes you to work, another person dresses you… But in the theater you do everything yourself and that puts you in a place that is very good, although it is Another also helps you realize that you have to be pampered a little so that you give one hundred percent. That balance is very cool and those things don’t fit there. There are plenty left over.
What engine has moved your career?
Don’t know. I guess making other people’s lives makes you happier, you forget about a lot of shit that’s on your plate. Since I haven’t done anything else in my life, don’t you think that either… But what moves me is the pleasure of doing what I do. And live. In other words, combine it with life, because if not, it’s not worth it.
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