The Spanish Theater is surprised with emotion, tears and silences to say goodbye to Verónica Forqué

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The short coffin of the actress arrived

Spanish Theater in Madrid

. He did so in an expectant silence that was soon broken by surprised applause. In front, the bustle of the terraces of the Plaza de Santa Ana oblivious to the slight tumult of the cameras, the flashes and the curious. On the façade of the odeon, the poster for the play

, a wide banner fluttered by the wind that, rather than announcing a show, titled the entire scene. Verónica Forqué entered the theater, her theater, but she did so as if she were walking for the first time through a foreign place, unlike her, floating through a strange land.

The coffin was laid on the stage. Behind, twelve crowns. In front, the stalls converted into a place for meditation, prayer and weeping. For the thrill and the guilt. And in the background, a rosary of images of the usual Verónica Forqué. In all of them without exception, she smiles. He does it, as his partner

because the happiness he transmitted did not fit either his body or his mouth. And in all of them, his unbearably blue and flooded eyes

Shortly after, a strange parade of bowed heads began, of excited acknowledgments, of words that wanted to be unique, special and perfect, and as soon as they touched the air they collapsed exhausted, tired of themselves. Broken The actors

were the ones who opened the procession. The first spoke of joy as a gift as a gift "that only she possessed." And after them,

. All of them went through the door and in front of the microphones with hardly being heard. Not so much silent as empty. They were also aware, perhaps, that the theater was no longer theater, that Madrid's sunny morning was nothing more than a witness to a broad, black and shared defeat. All and all in a strange land.

"She is an actress who managed to hide the pain that she carried inside,"

half a colleague by profession, the other half representative (by president of the Academy) of all Spanish cinema in which and with which Verónica could do everything. "Time has not treated her well," said a

more than surrounded by cameras and microphones, directly harassed by them. As if his words were the key (or relief) to a mystery that burns everything. Not in vain, it is to him and his cinema that Forqué first reached the true size of myths. Her role as Cristal in

He defined her to the core, to the very meaning, fragile, hard and deep, of the character's name. "She was all light ... I remember her as a very happy, great person and an incredible comedian. She defined the comedy of the 80s and 90s ... How Chus Lampreave keeps the innocence of childhood ... She is the last person to which I would have imagined with this ending. " Almodóvar spoke and it seemed that he did so not so much to explain anything as to drive away fears.

As the morning wore on, the theater filled up, yet it seemed more and more empty. At about one o'clock, two hours after the forced excitement of the novelty and television, a line of people was already arriving at the corner. In the stalls, the masks hid who knows what. But they were hiding it.

walked broken with tortured gaits. And

followed him without a voice, wanting to say something that he couldn't say. As soon as he approached where the tape recorders were waiting for him, he began to cry. The

more committed

actor

was the first to speak of a "call for reflection." All deaths call us, but this one more.

I cry.

Nothing more.

His statement was a crying silence.

And vacuum.

In a strange land.

The Minister of Culture

remembered her in Almodóvar's films and, as it happens, he stopped to describe the obvious, which is everyone's business and what institutions should do.

Bad we go when they forget.

"You have to celebrate his work and his life," he said.

And after him, the president of the Community of Madrid,

.

And after her, the mayor of Madrid,

And then the vice mayor,

.

Ayuso spoke of "humility, sincerity and his smile" and also of the loss it entails for all Madrilenians.

Everyone.

Actresses

the theater director

, the writer

the director

the chef

.

Everything was being seen.

From the theater, from the cinema, from the television, from each of the corners of Verónica Forqué, of a Verónica Forqué who, despite occupying the center of the stage that was always hers, really seemed to be in the very center of a strange land.

This afternoon she will be cremated.

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