Paula Usero: "Am I a young promise? Damn, but don't stop calling me or paying me well"

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(Valencia, 1991)

between the seven-year-old girl who was the face of the advertisement for the Famosa dolls and the thirty-year-old who has made her way into the world of cinema .

The one that, without knowing what to do, she got into studying Political Science and barely lasted a year.

The one who came to Madrid looking for an opportunity and found herself working in an Adidas store and in a nightclub wardrobe.

She was nominated for a Goya for Best New Actress, which made her a promise in the industry.

And the one who now, turned into a nun, stars with Carmen Machi

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“It amuses me to see myself in the habit because I have gone to a school run by nuns

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But the image of her as a nun girl has caught on.

That way we don't get you out of the roles of good girl. Well, I'm preparing one that I've been wanting to do for a long time, someone badass.

Casting directors always tell me that I have a naïve point, but I am very naughty and enjoy myself.

It is not necessary to look only at the essence that a person transmits.

My first image is of a good girl and there I have my double-edged sword.

Although first she has to be Sister Angelines, taking care of a group of orphaned children in a convent who aspire to be soccer players.

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JAVIER BARBANCHO

Does this movie break the concept of meritocracy? We have to break down the idyllic reality, this movie is about children who have lived in an irritable context and being alone.

Hopefully it will be a lesson for many that the most important thing is to have your life and be surrounded by people who want you to fulfill your dreams.

You have to talk about things that go down, I'm fed up with seeing only things about violence and murder. Where should I tell it from in that case? It's not necessary to emphasize how horrible, shameful and cruel life is in order to react.

I'm tired of so much aggressiveness, there's no need to learn from there, you also grow enjoying yourself. In fact, you've left Twitter for that, right? It's horrible because there are many people who have no limits and spend their time to harass

I suppose that someone who harasses you deep down wants to get closer to you and doesn't know how to do it,

but I don't understand it. After a while in this, does it still affect you?

It is impossible to escape and I have a very bad time.

I talk about it a lot in therapy, I can't get used to exposure and on many occasions I've gone to premieres and events because I suffer from panic attacks, I get very nervous. What don't you get used to? Being exposed, I think comes from harassment on Twitter.

That there are people involved in it that you can later find in other places causes me a lot of stress.

I have realized that I am a very vulnerable, fragile and sensitive person.

What don't you get used to? To be exposed, I think it comes from the harassment on Twitter.

That there are people involved in it that you can later find in other places causes me a lot of stress.

I have realized that I am a very vulnerable, fragile and sensitive person.

What don't you get used to? To be exposed, I think it comes from the harassment on Twitter.

That there are people involved in it that you can later find in other places causes me a lot of stress.

I have realized that I am a very vulnerable, fragile and sensitive person.

JAVIER BARBANCHO

Does being bullied at school have something to do with it too?

I was already making announcements when I was seven years old and from then on, in 4th year of ESO, I suffered harassment.

We all go through it at some point, but you have to be aware of how fucked up it is for those who suffer from it.

Over the years I have realized that I created a shell to prevent people from hurting me and that I am in pieces inside. At least that is already within the public debate. I have learned it, I don't know if the rest has done.

Although there is more awareness that it is wrong, we are reaching the limits of seven-year-old children committing suicide.

I had to leave school and they made my parents see that I was not the victim and the originator of everything.

No matter how little it has changed, it is already a triumph.

But it is like gender violence, abuse or street harassment, it is tremendous that it continues to be allowed.

Do the networks have more weight than they should now in the career of an actress?

And wrongly, you can't measure talent in followers.

There are people without talent in very powerful projects because they have many.

I think we always say the same thing, but I don't go to a hospital to operate.

Why are there people who have acting opportunities without talent?

Let them be models or influencers if they want, but not instrumentalists. From where you are, how much does having worked in a nightclub wardrobe and at Adidas help you not to climb? It helps me in hard times to realize where I was a few years ago and where I am now and lower the level of anxiety and stress.

I arrived in Madrid with 2,900 euros that my uncle left me to buy a mattress and pay 650 euros for a dwarf flat, which even my parents went to Valencia crying for.

Those were very difficult months because I couldn't call and worry my parents, and I did about 15 tests and it was always no. How did they go? I work because I didn't have pasta to go to dinner.

That's when I realized that at the age of 25 I didn't need to look like shit and I went back to Valencia one summer to gain strength.

The day my mother came for me I did the casting for Velvet, two days later I started at Zara home and two weeks later they had caught me.

It was very satisfying because I was fed up with folding blankets and towels.

I went back and slept at my representative's house because they paid me so little, but I'm grateful for that opportunity.

What about being told at the age of 30 that he is a young promise of the cinema, how are you doing?

I am very infantilized and since I look younger, many times they treat me with a condescension that I cannot stand.

One thing is that I was recently known in the profession, but I have been working since I was seven years old when I started in advertising.

Am I a young promise?

Damn, but don't stop calling me or paying me well.

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