Do not expect to find in what is now an interview or anything like it.

This is a monologue with two voices: those of

Antonio Resines

(Torrelavega, 1954) and

Miguel Rellán

(Tetuán, 1943).

It is the memory of a decade, the 1980s, which for them began in 1982 with

Pares y nones

, their first film together.

It is the story in the first and third person of those who almost did not survive Covid and those who lived it from the outside.

This is even a long scene from the Cuerda cinema with Rellán playing the piano and Resines offering himself for the double bass.

We only need Faulkner.

«We have a level of the host, damn.

If we were more handsome...

If we are already like that, being more handsome we would have no rival.

What a pity that we are bald

».

Resines says it and Rellán laughs.

«That I in

El crack

had long hair.

It is also true that the bitch would be for Alain Delon, Brad Pitt or Paul Newman to go bald, even though they are handsome.

But let me go bald...».

Now Rellán says it and Resines laughs.

As if they were a comical couple on tour in gambling dens in Spain instead of two of the most recognized actors of our cinema presenting

We are sorry for the inconvenience

, the latest series devised by Juan Cavestany and Álvaro Fernández-Armero that Movistar Plus+ premieres this Friday.

As if nothing had happened in Resines' life, as if he hadn't spent 36 days in a coma in the Gregorio Marañón ICU bed due to Covid.

P. Antonio, what is it like to see yourself back now after that?

AR

I don't reflect on that or think about it, but now that you ask me, I tell you that it's a joy because the other option was frankly unfortunate.

It was either stay in the hospital, which would be more screwed up, or not be here, so I'm very happy.

Look, it's my turn to do the promotions and all that, but I'm very happy to do them and they are appreciated.

P. Are things valued differently?

AR

The only thing I know is that I don't want to repeat it.

I've been to the hospital many times, almost always breaks and once for something not very big at heart, and it wasn't fucking funny anymore.

But this time I got really scared because the other thing doesn't leave you disabling aftermath and this can do it.

It was fucked up because I was very ill, very weak and I didn't know if I was going to be able to recover, but I was lucky that I was.

Even so, my values ​​remain the same because if you are satisfied with your life, you maintain it.

What this has reaffirmed for me is that my friends and the people who love me continue to love me and that there are many people who love me and like me and that is very satisfying.

I would rather have died if I had to endure exhaustion and suffering

Anthony Resines

Here Rellán intervenes and a dialogue opens about those days, about the consequences of the pandemic and, especially, about facing death when it looms large.

MR There

were several very bad days, all the forecasts were very negative, they told us that we could die.

It was horrible, really.

AR

[Laughs] I didn't know about that, but a very absurd moment makes me laugh.

On the day of discharge, the 71-year-old head of intensive care at the hospital

told me that he didn't want to be very exact, but I had between 95 and 97% chance of giving it up.

There you realize everything and you get scared.

I understand what it has been like from the outside because I have experienced it when my mother died, who spent a good period in the ICU.

In addition, she had a tracheotomy like me and she worried that they would have me intubated for the rest of my life.

MR

It's that those days, which were more than we would all like, there was one thing of not believing it, of not being able to be.

How was Antonio Resines going to die!

AR

I must have been in the same situation, how could I die!

In my hallucinations I felt in danger of death, which corresponded to reality, I was almost dead.

In the end there was a moment when I wanted to end it, it was a terrible suffering.

And it wasn't physical pain, it was exhaustion.

I preferred to die there, I wouldn't have cared, it was better than continuing like this all my life

.

People who know they're not going to get better and stay like that for a long time must be awful.

MR

Being a fan at his side, I had 48 hours that I don't remember because of the fever, I was exhausted, and I asked the doctors if I was dying because since I had never died, I had no history.

I didn't die but when they ask me if I see life in a different way I remember what Gabilondo says about going out to the countryside with friends and that one says when seeing millions of stars that he realizes our smallness.

I don't need it, I know what can happen, but I don't want it to be now.

Or I am abnormal or more mature than I thought seeing people around me with the psychological problems that this has left them

.

Even in the middle of their disquisitions about death, humor escapes them.

But they can't help it.

They only lack one of the most famous sentences of

Amanece, which is not little

, where they shared a cast: «I had never seen anyone die as well as your father is dying.

What to go, what to turn off, with what parsimony.

I'm enjoying that you can't even imagine."

It was that, 33 years ago, one of the projects they shared back in the 80s with

La Colmena

(1982),

Pares y nones

(1982) and

Café, coca y puro

(1985).

And here they continue.

Today turned into a couple of friends who do not want to assume that old age arrives in the new series by Cavestany and Fernández-Armero.

Although they do seem to have assumed it.

“I am aware that I am turning 68 now, but I do not look old.

My father at that age was an old man, just as I see myself with good eyes.

It is a matter of head and attitude, the only bitch is the physical part that does begin to be lacking

.

But it already happened to me after I was 20 years old and I'm not telling you about my 40s and 50s. The only thing that bothers me is the hair thing, the hell with it.

I'm not going to plant my head now, but if I had more hair and were taller," Resines starts.

Either I am abnormal or very mature seeing the psychological problems that the pandemic has left around me

Miguel Rellan

«

Can we say that Mick Jagger is an old man?

Because that bastard is going on a world tour now

.

I am 78 years old, but I see my father, who was a doctor, at the edge of his bachelor's degree at 22 years old and he and everyone else seemed like an older man.

Just like in the movies of the 40s, there were detectives who were back from everything and one was Robert Taylor who was 24 years old.

Now Clint Eastwood has to do it for you to believe it, "Rellán concludes.

But the years go by, as evidenced by the anecdote that Rellán tells, to which his partner smiles with complicity: the prizes they receive are no longer for a specific performance and are now “for a lifetime”.

"

But if they give it to you, you have to be very grateful and go pick it up, as if it's in the last place in the world because they remember you

," says Resines, who now looks back on his career: "When someone sees you and he's surprised it's you, it's horrible.

That is, more than 20 years have passed."

It's actually been almost twice as long since they met and became friends.

Like his protagonists in the series.

“We have been friends for a long time, we have always had contact, but our relationship is different, it is not as daily as that of these guys,” says Resines.

"And we don't have that ongoing feud.

We cannot go around the world with the ax drawn all the time.

In the end, this is like relationships in which if someone bothers you if you leave the lid of the toilet open or the toothpaste not closed properly, either you kill yourself or nothing happens.

The second is better because if we don't go around screaming all day and we're screwed

», adds Rellán.

Although here his colleague has something to confess: «

Me with my friends when I have to shoot with a bullet sometimes I do it either seriously or as a joke, what the hell

».

And, at that moment, in this room of the Teatro Real, Rellán sits down at the piano again to put an unexpected end to this.

Up to the rest.

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