If the star system exists in Spanish cinema, it is thanks to Mario Casas (La Coruña, 1986). And Resins, of course. But that is another interview. No one like him is capable of provoking so much. And in so many different ways . From the most dedicated enthusiasm to suicide even through all the intermediate states of the soul, it is impossible not to take sides. Not for nothing, he, only he, is profitable. And he knows it. Now he says Goodbye , by Paco Cabezas; the same director with whom he made Neon Meat in 2005. The film arrives in theaters at the same time that the actor finalizes two more projects in cinema and prepares a series for television. Be that as it may, and despite Federico Moccia, from Alberto Rodríguez to Álex de la Iglesia, no one has resisted taking sides. Suicides, yes, have not transcended.
Q. If you work with Paco Cabezas, the only possible question is how close or far you are from Nicolas Cage (with him made Tokarev ) ...
A. Well, the truth is that Goodbye owes Cage a lot. When Cabezas arrived in the neighborhood of Seville of Las 3000 Viviendas, where the film takes place, nobody seemed to be impressed that I was going to be the protagonist. But as soon as he explained that he had worked with Cage, all were facilities. For the rest, I am waiting for you to tell me the secret of Cage's hair ... [laughs].
P. His second film after The Way of the English was Neon Meat with Heads and in Seville. What does it mean to return to the crime scene with the same accomplice?
R. Everything. It was my unconscious entry into the cinema. Since then, I didn't stop. The criticism put me very well. Something that has not happened in much of what I have done next.
Q. Don't you have the feeling of being permanently justifying yourself?
R. Let's see, I defend commercial cinema. I am a consumer of all kinds of cinema from Marvel to Scorsese. I would do without problem Three meters above the sky 3. I neither regret nor be ashamed. In addition, that cinema then gives me the opportunity to do The Practitioner with Carles Torras, which is just the opposite. Those who criticize me many times have only seen the thing that of the shirt ... If you continue my career, you have to admit that I have healed it.
Q. And don't you feel used by directors who need your box office hook?
A. I wouldn't say so much ... Maybe yes ... Everyone knows what they are doing. Anyway, I am very heavy. If they wanted to use me, I squeezed them. I am a guy with a very German conception of curing, curing and curing. I like to be tested and taken out of my comfort zone.
Q. We will then try to get out of the obvious. You were born in Galicia, you have lived in Barcelona and Madrid and, as you confess, your best works are in Seville. How do you see what is happening in Catalonia?
R. It makes me sad. I lived from four to 18 years in Barcelona; All my best friends are from Barcelona ... I wish that all the characters I've done here and there were one person. We would do better ... Actually, what happens is more scary than sad .
Q. You have trouble talking about politics ...
A. Yes, I prefer not to. I want to take people to the movies and I don't want to offend anyone. I have been criticized, but I took that position a long time ago. I prefer to keep it for myself and mine.
Q. However, some time ago he declared that Franco was the worst thing that had happened to Spain ...
A. I did it during the promotion of The Mule , which was about the Civil War ...
Q. Now with the exhumation, Vox and the publication of the will ...
A. Well, yes, I still think the same. I named a very clear situation. It is the worst thing that has happened in Spain.
Q. I keep trying. Goodbye , among many other matters, speaks of the wounds of the past, of revenge, of forgiveness ... It is worth it as a description of what we live in Spain.
A. There is something, yes [laughs]. I think we have to ask for more forgiveness for a long time. We would have to constantly apologize. And I notice that it also costs me.
Q. Before starting the interview, your people warn me about personal questions ...
A. Well, I have no problem. What bothers me is how they ask themselves according to what things. Anyway, in my life I prefer to enter the fair. If you enter once, you have to do it always.
Q. Talk about the obsession with work. Is that your way of defending yourself from the image that the media projects of you?
R. Not at all. I am obsessive since I was little. My house is all perfectly tidy. I need to have control over things and situations ... If I change the type of character it is because I get bored of doing the same.
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