Javier Bardem: "Creating enmity or a rival to beat should not be the way of feminism"

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Denis villeneuve says of him that his gaze is that of a tiger. He affirms it after his voracious and even cruel work in

. In one of his last films

, he himself preferred the one about the hippopotamus. For that of the ferocity hidden in a kind body, for fluffy. In

instead embodies something more than just memorable, a true chameleon. His character as Mr. Blanco, owner of White Scales, is a businessman as candid and friendly as a bastard, as tender as he is merciless. The film of

chosen by the Academy as a

candidate for the Oscars, reaches the undercard this Friday 20 years after

.

If then Bardem gave life to an unemployed worker, now his is the same role, but just from the other side.

That is to say, identical and completely different.

Be that as it may, tiger, hippopotamus or chameleon, his thing is to roar.

Always.

On one side and the other of the screen.

Are you disappointed to go without a prize in San Sebastián after being first on the list of all pools? Slightly.

As it has already happened to me several times and one, precisely, with

I was quite cautious. You have to be aware that the award for best actor has been taken away ... You do not agree with the decision to eliminate the distinction between actor and actress, I deduce, I think it is a good bad idea. This to put better interpretation and better secondary interpretation I believe that it diminishes importance to what an acting work means in masculine and feminine. What is the problem with that? When that change took place, you knew they were taking away the best actor award, he considered himself defeated ... As I arrived in San Sebastián, I already said that an actor was not going to win, that he could not win. And it couldn't be an

award either

because that was as much as making amends for the festival. Then I saw the record and it seemed very combative.

Exclusive video of 'The Good Patron', with Javier Bardem

So don't you agree with the award [no man was awarded except for the best script for Terence Davies]? I haven't seen all the movies and I can't go that far. But from the outside, it sounded to me, I say, very combative, too much, and I don't know if this is feminism. Feminism is not going against men. I think that feminism should consist in giving women the place they deserve, which is the place that men today have or attribute to themselves. But in this we need each other and I detect behaviors that I think help little to progress. Creating enmity or creating a rival to beat is not the way, do the prizes still influence you? I mean, if we do the math, I don't think he's missing any ... No. There is a part of me, which has to do with vanity without a doubt, that always welcomes a good review.That is universal. On the other hand, and from a commercial point of view, any award is an underline that makes people pay attention to you and more at a time like this when it costs so much to pay attention with so many stimuli around. The Academy has chosen the films for the Oscars. Go one for the other. Yes, but it must be clear that there is nothing more strange or absurd than measuring a creative activity. The good pattern is a film that does not reward anyone, that does not leave anyone unscathed. Terrible is the image of the businessman, but no less devastating is that of the working class ... Is the society in which we live so discouraging? It is that sad. Discouragement is the criticism that the film proposes to the absolute lack of union or empathy in which we live.Every day we attend a virtual revolution in the networks that is not going anywhere because it is precisely that, virtual. Before there was a sense of social identity that we have lost. And how do you think we got here? Perhaps one of the reasons is that we are living in much more violent, more aggressive times. Just look at what the politicians in Congress are saying. And that is seen in the street. It gives me the impression that no one takes the trouble to listen to anyone, that no one belongs to anything anymore. Beyond the little flags on the bracelet or in the cars, who are we as a society? We are completely divided. The only thing that has given me some hope is this mobilization of young people against climate change. But I think of 15-M and that was 10 years ago. Its insistence on political and social commitment is striking.Why this effort to show your head? To what extent do you feel responsible as a public figure? Otherwise, the responsibility of fame is suffered or enjoyed? I enjoy it and suffer it, but above all it is something natural, it is not something built or forced. It comes from my mother. I grew as I grew. I have seen my mother in those times when being an actress in Spain was little less than being a whore (with all due respect for them). And she defended him with three children and divorced, with all that that meant in those years. I have seen my mother fight for what she considered unfair and stand up for her and her companions. We lived with the most just and, even so, my mother had no problem in donating money for the Sahrawi mothers. That is creating a relationship with the other and with the world ... And then everything changes in 2003 ...With the No to war, that's it. Suddenly, you go out to say something that you think is fair, because you are like many in favor of stopping that war, and the next day on the cover of

It says: «Javier Bardem pro-ETA». And you say to yourself: "Wow, this is the point." Well, you become aware that you have to live with it. I didn't make any decisions I just learned that I had to live with it. When my mother left home and crossed the Retreat to go to work at the theater, she was threatened by the people of Fuerza Nueva. And some cases had to run badly. Both in France and in the United States, for example, the commitment of the actors in general and his in particular is interpreted as a trait of prestige, of commitment to society. Here, in Spain, it gives the opposite impression ... Do you feel more loved outside than inside? And that is why we live in Spain. I have never lived outside, no matter how much they say that if Miami, that if I have closed plants of I do not know how many hospitals ... On the street,and Penelope Cruz said it recently, the only thing I have felt is respect, admiration and affection. Regardless of whether they like my work more or less. There is always a car from which they tell you that "Red shit." But hey, it is one and it qualifies itself. So, let's say there is no complaint. If it is true that it was, the acting profession is more respected in general. The actor is recognized for a social role beyond entertainment. It is understood that the actor works with creative tools that, in addition to entertaining, produce something with which society reflects on itself. Good cinema makes you put yourself in someone else's shoes on a very intimate level. And yes, there is respect for that. Here we are still a little lame about it. But it's like that forever. It is not new.When he collaborated at the beginning of the pandemic by bringing planes with medical supplies, that too was criticized ... We did that and other things that we did not disclose. And why do we advertise it? Well, nothing more than to encourage others to do the same. And we know from the food bank that the fact of being news made many people dare to do it too. They asked us to say so and we did. It cost me a lot personally because I knew that the first thing they were going to tell me was that I was doing it for the gallery. He has never worked with an entrepreneur. Where did the entrepreneur getAnd we know from the food bank that the fact of being news made many people dare to do it too. They asked us to say so and we did. It cost me a lot personally because I knew that the first thing they were going to tell me was that I was doing it for the gallery. He has never worked with an entrepreneur. Where did the entrepreneur getAnd we know from the food bank that the fact of being news made many people dare to do it too. They asked us to say so and we did. It cost me a lot personally because I knew that the first thing they were going to tell me was that I was doing it for the gallery. He has never worked with an entrepreneur. Where did the entrepreneur get

Never.

Although as a waiter I did once meet a good patron.

As a good actor I have been a waiter before.

But I have not been inspired by any one in particular ... On one occasion I mentioned Harvey Wenstein ... He was someone who walked into a room and took all the energy.

He was a really fascinating guy.

He expanded a candor that made you enter his world without problem.

The problem is that you entered and did not leave. Isn't that a Spanish phenomenon, that of the good boss, the nice scoundrel? I don't think so.

Internationally, in fact, it has been understood very well and I think that is going to help the Oscar campaign.

The system does not make distinctions of nationality.

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