Belén Rueda: "I love being the screaming queen"

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She has faced ghosts in

and the supernatural in

has been a psychopath in

has lost her sight in the harrowing

, she has even played an exquisite corpse in

Belén Rueda is, in her own right and many other genre films, the queen of screaming in Spain.

And at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival she is always received like a horror diva.

A diva who nimbly climbs a tree, with her fine stilettos, to pose for the cameras the morning after receiving the Grand Honorary Prize of the festival from JA Bayona.

Is there a before and after

? Actually, for me there was a before and an after with Sea Inside. I did series and Alejandro Amenábar wanted me for the character of Julia and it changed my life. He believed in me, in an actress who worked on television and who could also make movies. He did not care that many said 'they are going to see you as Lucía de Los Serrano'. Later, The Orphanage joined me with the fantastic films. Do you feel like the Spanish Scream Queen? I love the Scream Queen, it seems like a wonderful title. For years I made a lot of fantasy films, then I went back to drama, then I had a desire for comedy ... I like labels because they last just long enough. What attracts you the most to the fantasy genre? Festivals like this are they doing than others festivals talk about films in general: that the genre is considered as quality films,just like a dramatic. We have seen it in Cannes or San Sebastián. Before, they only won dramatic films or films of social denunciation. The fantastic speaks of feelings and takes them to extremes that in a dramatic movie you would get out of reality. But, as Guillermo del Toro said, where is reality, in what we see or in what we have in mind? For an actor, in the fantastic there is less text and more interpretation. You have to say a lot with your eyes, with your body, because there are no words to explain what is happening. It seems lighter but there are very intense moments. How has the role of women evolved in horror movies? She has gone from being the victim to playing a strong role, be it a villain or a survivor. There is more diversity and psychopath roles are fascinating.When I did No Sleep I did a lot of research on psychopaths. I always try to give a point of humanity to the character, that does not mean that I justify it or agree. I try to find the reasons that it could have ... In this case, there were none. There are times when evil has no justification. There is talk of a childhood, of a trauma ... But there is a moment in your life that you can choose: do what they have done to you or try to prevent that terrible thing from happening to anyone else. women on the other side of the camera, directing? This is education. Women are as passionate about our work as men. But the day has 24 hours for everyone. Due to bad manners, they have instilled in us that we have tasks that men can skip just because they are men.We have to get rid of that phrase, which I have also said, of 'I have a partner who helps me'. How does it help me? No, you have to share. In his series

, some topics that are not common in fiction are discussed, such as family conciliation. It is that they are normal subjects, it is life. Perhaps what has hooked people so much with

is that they are recognizable situations and more everyday things. For some it is their life, it is important and you have to give a little visibility. Is the idea that women, at a certain age, are no longer offered attractive roles, is breaking down? We have come a long way, but there is still a long way to go . In Spain there are great actresses like Nathalie Poza, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón or Carmen Machi, she has broken several taboos ... We continue working and they continue to offer us characters. I am 56 years old and do not tell me that your career is over. When we go to other levels, like in the United States, actresses produce their own series and movies, that's where we have to go. When will a Bethlehem Rueda producer be? [laughs] Why not? For nowThis December I am going to Colombia to shoot a series of 13 chapters on the history of the Mirabal sisters, Las mariposas. November 25 is commemorated the day of the fight against violence against women by her: that day they were assassinated by the Trujillo dictatorship, although at first they refused.

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