Acting, like living, is an exercise in sympathy, which is what empathy used to be called. Gonzalo de Castro (Madrid, 1963) is, basically, a likeable actor. And this, which when read aloud may sound like patronizing criticism, is actually the most sincere and obvious compliment. The grace of this Madrid actor with a finished law career is his ability to be any of us. And, in addition, to be it with grace, grace and intelligence. It is not that it replaces us or simply represents us, it improves us. And that is true both on television, which has given him fame (and we imagine money) since the mythical Seven lives, and in the theater, which gives him the gift of prestige, through cinema, perhaps the only medium that is resist. Now premieresThe curse of the handsome , by Beda Docampo, a comedy in which he plays a mature rogue with a certain tendency to be a bad father. That is to say, like any of us, but friendly.

Since theaters have been opened, everything is comedies. Are we in such a hurry to forget what happened? It can't be any other way. It is not a question of forgetting in a general sense, but of, if only for a moment, thinking about something else. The cinema is the safest place there is. A mask is enough and you are safe from everything. Of course, you can't forget that much pain, but you have to take a break. Can you laugh at everything at all times? Can we laugh at everything we are going through? Comedy is the most lucid way to approach and understand reality. Another thing is disrespect. The comedy is a glass of water, it is the petroleum jelly that relieves us from reality. Why is this love for the character of the rogue in the Spanish comedy? Who does not like to be a rogue? The character that seduces you and then tucks it in is the only one you can forgive. Yes, you screwed me, but how well you did it. It also has a bitter reading ... Are we really so incapable of being correct people and admiring honest man? Well, this is so since Quevedo, it is part of our national idiosyncrasy whether we like it or not. Think of Don Quixote. Rascals and scammers are attractive and we like them. They are defeated heroes, but majetes. What differentiates the rogue from the corrupt? Corruption is something else, it is a bad rogue way of being. The rogue is an artist, the corrupt is a motherfucker . And the difference is humanity. A rogue has humanity that the corrupt does not even know. The rogue does not humiliate; the corrupt one, yes. Do you think the cinema uses you little? I will be frank. The cinema in this country does not want me. I say this openly and without any problem. I have forged my career in the theater, which is what I like. It must be that the cinema is not worth it. I have made only six or seven movies. I am not in the movies that I would like to be because they do not call me. I do not neglect the cinema, it is the cinema that neglects me. What has television meant in your career? There was a before and after Seven lives . That series made it possible for me to live worthily of my trade. And that is already the hell. Before, television lived in disrepute. What gave color and tone was the theater and television was made by others. Fortunately that has changed. The best cinema in this country is now made on television. And that despite the fact that the sense of measure has been lost. It sounds contradictory. Yes, an extraordinary TV is made, but in worse conditions. Before there was more time to rehearse, the productions had more ambition, more bellows ... Before, a chapter was made in 15 days and now, in only five. That is detrimental to quality. The recent exception is what I did with Mar Coll, Kill the father. Now you either dance the twist or you don't dance. Don't see series? Never. It seems that if you are not watching series you are not always a person. I refuse. I go at my own pace and see what I feel like. What is your pace? I hardly watch television. I look less and less at a window that was once full of life and now it is a lot of publicity and shit . I see cinema. I'm analog for everything. What will the post-pandemic world be like? If it comes, I don't know. What I do know is that what I see on the street seems to me a lack of respect for the toilets, who have left their lives, and for the population in general. People's behaviors piss me off. We all resent going with a mask, but you have to put it on. Don't you think that the pandemic will make us better, that it will make us rethink our preferences ...? No. One is that he is from the beginning and for the rest of his life. There is no memory. Now the important thing is to sell cars, computers, mobiles ... And I do not want to seem pessimistic. It hides it quite well. Well, I am already more than 50 years old.

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