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Sergi López. Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1965. One of the most international Spanish actors premieres La inocencia, Lucía Alemany's debut opera that was cheered in San Sebastián. It is recommended to read your answers in a vehement and sly tone.

Let's talk about 'Innocence' ... Innocence , huh. Good name for a country that has totally lost it. I don't know what happens to this country that every step we take we drag a fascist ballast that always appears and ... Host, I'm already messing it up (laughs). It's been you, I hadn't even asked yet. Yes, yes, it's truth. I come from seeing the endowment and I get hot. I center. Innocence is a wonderful film, with a young director (Lucía Alemany) who is a savage, with an enormous energy, who tells a story that is her story. That of a 15-year-old teenager who is discovering what it means to be a woman and to be an adult. It is a film that captures the brutal power of women. Many women have directed you, which is not very common in cinema. It is true, although more in France than in Spain. Here for a long time there have been the three or four directors that we all think, period, but now many more are coming. When you go to the Film Schools, there are many more girls than boys. It is true that they have traditionally dedicated themselves more to production and organization, but that is also changing. So I have been very lucky and I have two films in a row with young directors ( The innocence and the journey of Marta , of Neus Ballús), who have chosen me to be a father who does what he can, which is a bit what I have done I as a father, really. The experience is overrated as a father, it helps you a little, but nothing more. The other day I read a Socrates text that came to complain that in his Athens the young people were not interested in anything, they just wanted to eat and fuck ... Come on, we are eternally surprised with the same. Do you remember when you lost your innocence? Not in a traumatic way. I just realized that if you don't work, you don't eat. I have a very vehement father who stood firm without contemplation, so little nonsense. That's why from a young age I went looking for life and discovered that I don't need much to be happy. Food and some tobacco. The protagonist of the film is a quinceañera from a town who dreams of going to study circus in Barcelona. Did the same thing happen to you? Did you dream of leaving Vilanova and going to study acting in the city? No, I'm a potato. The most crucial things in life have happened to me in such a crappy way that you would hallucinate. I did amateur theater in my town to hang out and my father got up at four in the morning to go to work at the Pirelli factory. One day I was late rehearsing, I arrived when I was already awake and when I opened the door I saw that I was waiting for very bad milk. As at that time I had repeated BUP 3 times three times and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, whether mechanic or what, my father was desperate and improvised: "One moment, today I decided that I will dedicate myself to the theater. " And he calmed down a little, believing he finally had some future plan. I did it to save the skin, but the next day I decided to try, thinking it would last a year and return to town. The lie had a prize this time. I have spent years feeling a fake that they were going to catch, but now I think I will always live on this and hallucinate cucumbers. I until 25 knew how to speak Catalan and a Castilian with a lot of accent, I had not left almost my town, and now I see myself rolling in French, Italian, English ... It's the dick in vinegar. It never occurred to me to dream of being an international actor, I just wanted to save myself a host. You roll all over the world, but you're still living in Vilanova. It's pretty ... Well, pretty ... It's a town of bad death (laughs). I mean it's nice about the star that doesn't forget where it comes from. Well, it wasn't a plan either. I was studying in Paris and they told me that I will stay, but it was very expensive and I had no pasta. Besides, what had I missed in Paris? In my town I have the people I know, I can have a beer with them, rehearse in a garage ... So I turned. I already tell you that life takes me and I leave myself. Despite your prestige, do not lavish yourself in Spanish films. Is it your decision or do they call you little? Come in, but I don't know why. The same because until now I have always had a manager who was not a real manager, she was a colleague of mine I had to organize a little things that came to me, but I was not looking for papers. In addition, I am not in Madrid or Barcelona, ​​they all see me as someone external: "It is half French", "it will be very expensive" ... I am not very involved in the world of Spanish cinema and I am doing well, because I have had a filly that you hallucinate and I have finished working in many different countries, which is a luxury in this profession. Do you feel privileged? In Spain, where with the culture immediately the prejudice arises that we are saltimbanquis and puppeteers, 99% of my friends, actors and actresses have left it or have thought of leaving it a thousand times. It is emotionally complicated work. As soon as they do not call you, you think that you are bad, that you do not give for more, that everything is going to shit, than to see if you ride it as a taxi driver. In this sense I am an example that gives a bit of anger, because between pitos and flutes I get more things than I can do. You have even received the next Woody Allen movie. I was very surprised with him. He is a genius, an icon and everything we say, but he also has his stuff. I'm used to being sent the entire script of the movie, but he only sent me the three pages where I was going out. So I said yes without knowing what the movie was about. Then I got to the shoot and Mr. Woody Allen goes with a Woody Allen hat, Woody Allen shoes, Woody Allen glasses. He is dressed as Woody Allen and looking at the floor all the time. When he arrives, he does not say good morning, not because he is an idiot, but because he is his own. Does not speak. But when you start recording the scene, when you have to do comedy, it changes. It was a pass. He started talking to me, congratulated me, we understood each other very well. We connected the drug that is theatrical creation, see how a scene grows before your eyes. I, like him, plan to continue making films until the age of 90. Lately, some actors have not wanted to work with him or have returned the salaries of his films due to accusations by Mia Farrow that he abused his daughter. Was it something you had in mind? For me, there is no reason for it. We are in a complicated world of currents of opinion and social gatherings in which the media has a tremendous diffusion beyond its veracity. Woody Allen is an example. He has had two trials and has been acquitted in both, but the issue does not stop. It is a matter that you will have to drag all your life, even if it is not fair. Come on, I saw you wanting to talk about politics at the beginning. You are independentista and voter of the CUP, do you share your decision to vote with the right-wing block in the investiture? Of course, because one has to vote according to its principles and the CUP can never support this PSOE at this time. This explosion of the extreme right, with a very dangerous discourse that has been given legitimacy among all, is very toxic and everything gets muddy, but agreeing with VOX in the vote does not mean anything, because it comes from opposite points. There were many reasons to vote "no" for a PSOE who has backed people to be put in prison for trying to defend their ideas. This is a country where you can talk about everything, you can present an electoral program that defends any idea, but you cannot try to apply it or you go to jail. That is a bit odd and it is not only a matter of Vox, also of the Spanish left. Do you think that the negotiating table agreed by PSOE and ERC will be of any use? I don't trust Sánchez or the system. And people worry me, because an intellectual framework has been legitimized in which there are patriots and traitors, good and bad, when it is not true. It is increasingly difficult to discern between information and intoxication. I think that citizens have been abandoned by politicians. As in quiet times not much has been invested in education and culture, when times of crisis come like the present it is more difficult to defend against lies, manipulations and fascist speeches. Any nationalism has a supremacist point: I am better than you . Do you understand that a man from, for example, Murcia can feel this way about Catalan independence? In the CUP, or similar groups with which I sympathize, we are moved by a more collective than individual thought, more of helping people who have needs than the elites that are left over. What happens is that we have been watching our identity for a lifetime, having to explain that we are Catalan. Neither better nor worse, but Catalan. A Murcian or you, whether or not you are patriots, do not need to claim your nationality, which is what I want. Not having to go around the world saying I am Catalan as if I were a Martian. I am no better than anyone because I am, but it is what I am and what I want to be. Do you think that independence is feasible? I know that deconstructing the country, not breaking it, is complicated, but it is the only thing that could be done now. The idea of ​​unity has ended up running over everything. If that is non-negotiable, there is no fix. What happens in Catalonia is that the years go by and Spain treats it as if it were a minor. You have the impression that they have to give you permission for everything and people are getting fed up. What happens if we decide to leave home and our father does not leave us because he says we are minors? Well, people have even more desire to leave. Let's talk, let's look for solutions. I, as a comedian, still think that we can laugh, not hurt ourselves ... That the street does not panic, because we can continue to be friends even if we do not want to be compatriots. Why do you want independence? Why do we have to justify ourselves? I don't especially like flags, but I want to be independent to burn the Catalan flag, to poop myself in La Moreneta and in the national symbols. And for that I have to have a homeland that feels like mine.

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