The body and even the art of
Javier Botet (Ciudad Real, 1977)
reproduce in each of its edges and its turns what Nietzsche believed to identify as the Dionysian in the birth of the Greek tragedy during several sleepless nights.
For passionate, for dark and even for vital.
Capable in his hypermobility of the most strongly La Mancha comedy and the most abstruse prosthetic horror, this creator by actor, screenwriter, director and cartoonist has spent years discussing the balanced rules of the very apo
common cinema line.
From the height of a body as imposing as two meters as it is light in its barely 60 kilos of weight because of the so-called
Marfan syndrome,
Botet queen.
"For me, my body is a source of inspiration," he says by way of a statement of principles.
And he continues: "It has always been very aesthetic for me and the challenge has been to get the public to see it as a tool to produce beauty."
And so it is. Now, this actor known for his roles as the Medeiros Girl in [
REC
], by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró, and by the maternal nightmare of
Mother
, by the Argentine Andy Muschietti (also by the leper Hobo in
Item
or Crooked Man in
Warren expedient)
stars
Friend
by Óscar Martín.
And he does it face and body uncovered.
It could be considered that it is the first time that the main role is yours
.
Although in justice he shares it with his colleague David Pareja.
«I already starred
Two pigeons
by Dominic Bridges, but it hardly had an impact.
In addition, the story of this film is mine and I also sign the script with Oscar and David.
Yes, it can be said that it is a full stop ”, he says.
The film, which opens at Filmin tomorrow after passing through the Sitges Festival, tells the story of two friends chained to each other.
And alone in a house lost in the middle of nowhere.
One is ill, the victim of an accident and the other is a caretaker and guardian angel.
Soon, Dionisios will do his thing to turn calm into pure poison: “Terror is always on the side of the hidden;
terror is in the gaze of the victim, "he says, not so much to discredit his work as an eternal being from hell as to value precisely the one that occupies him now.
«I have incarnated countless monsters after a thousand hours of makeup, and yet there is no worse monster, no matter how terrifying, than the human and very recognizable isolation.
The loneliness that distances you from others is the origin of all fears. ”Not so long ago he was seen in what is the other extreme (in a radical sense) of his very long work as a creator.
In
The queen of lizards
, from the directors who go by the name of Burnin 'Barnacles, gave life to an alien in love.
It was a love and absurd humor very close (or only in tune) to the one he shares with people like Joaquín Reyes in the series
Chapter 0
.
«It is difficult to define the humor of La Mancha.
I imagine that since there is nothing there but a huge secarral you are obliged to invent something », he comments just before or shortly after giving a long list of people who
Mota to Cervantes
passing through Cuerda and Millán Salcedo define the Castilian creed. Botet tells that because he is the way he is, because he stays as far away from Apollo as he is close to Dionisio, in his life there has been no lack of struggles "against the whole world."
But his tale is as safe from affected heroism as it is from useless resentment.
“Since we were always back and forth with my father's work, I was obliged to do acceptance work every two to three.
Thanks to the drawing and the nonsense that I did, I ended up having the point of the matter.
There have always been fools, but I knew how to defend myself, "he recalls.
He also tells that, despite his "seven or eight operations" and despite
"To his little lungs with so little capacity"
, do not be disappointed.
«I am careful, but I have lived and I live to the fullest.
I do not want to reach 200 years at half gas, "he says while recalling how badly he had it because of the Covid.
"I ate it whole in March."
And concludes:
«I am only a string of bones within a bit of skin,
but with a lot of desire to do everything ».
Voracious and Dionysian.
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