Tamara Falcó: "My family was more about hunting than books"

• 'La Marquesa' Release date and trailer for Tamara Falcó's reality show on Netflix

Tamara Falcó is a perfect synthesis of Spanish ancestry.

In the family album, which is the ¡Hola! inherited the Marquisate of Griñón.

And as

, she appears in a

for Netflix that premieres on August 4, nine years after the previous and unsuccessful experience of

for Cosmo.

Winner of Masterchef Celebrity in 2019

, Tamara has found a vocation and a new vein in the kitchen with which to enrich her public facet as an

.

The challenge and the plot of

are precisely to set up an ephemeral restaurant in

, the dilapidated family palace in Aldea del Fresno.

The culinary challenge and the preparation of the mansion for the occasion articulate the plot of this first season.

Tamara appears with a small entourage at the Netflix headquarters in Madrid to talk about the series, with the sympathy that is presumed to her and a Spain with 30,000 tamaras jelly a little because of her.

She aches from a broken shoulder that needs surgery-"they think I've had an accident but they don't know when"-but she can't stop smiling.

As in the opening bars of

when in the photocall of her 40th birthday party, her representative, Chus Martín, recommends: "don't talk, just smile."

Do you think that those of our generation are installed in a perpetual youth? It is possible.

Does it happen to you?

When I was a child, the older ones were very old.

I remember walking into the typical dark wood paneled office and thinking that you never wanted to get to the age of those who were there.

Now offices are kind of

, like this one on Netflix, and people wear slippers, like you. There is the cliché of Tamara Falcó as a naive, innocent girl... Silly girl, say it, say it, nothing happens. in the forms it is actually a tool to get what you want.

Because you say on the reality show that you are very stubborn. I don't think so!

I don't see it as a strategy.

I really think it's my way of being.

There is a part of me that is like that, and in fact many times I also recognize it in my mother.

Although she doesn't have her voice, nor this childish thing... But there is a part of her in her that is very innocent, and she is not a fool.

What is certain is that I ask everything.

When I went to study in the United States at the age of 15, as soon as I arrived they told me that there was no stupid question.

In Spain I was more silent, but then I said to myself,

this is mine.

And until today. You studied Communication.

Has it helped you to manage your public image and to calmly face the maledicence of

and the bad drool of people on social networks?

It gives the feeling that what they say slips by you. For that, the only thing that has helped me has been my friends, managers and partners of The Lab Talents, who are the ones who encourage me and help me with all these issues.

My social network is my community and I try to take care of it.

I am lucky that the girls who follow me, and I say girls because 82 percent are women, we have all the

[here for a few seconds his voice changes, it becomes serious, businesslike], they are very similar to me.

Many times, when people get into my profile to criticize me, they defend me like a beast.

I also try to delete the comments and block those people.

They are harmful, and I like peace, tranquility and harmony. At one point in the reality show your mother says that at home, when you were little, they called you 'the actress'. Yes, Sarah Bernhardt, she called me.

I've never really known who Sarah Bernhardt was, but she liked to use that reference.

The truth is that I loved her.

As a child she had a very good memory and learned entire dialogues from movies and plays.

I knew it all. How? The movie, not the novel.

Yes, because I loved it.

When I had to write an essay to get into Stoneleigh-Burnham, my school in Massachusetts, I wrote about

.

"Some love her, others hate her...".

When she saw it, my mother picked it up and tore it to pieces. She didn't think it was appropriate. She didn't think it was appropriate at all.

But it is something that Mario and I have in common, because

is his favorite novel. How is your relationship with Vargas Llosa?

I loved reading Mario before he was my mother's boyfriend.

... It is wonderful.

He was a close friend of my uncle Miguel and he came to our house for dinner from time to time.

In a scene from the reality show, during the trip to New York, Mario takes me to a fantastic bookstore and gives me a book.

I have it at home.

But lately I have completely parked reading. Like everyone. You too?

The truth is that you have to find peace, space and silence, and now with all the technologies and life we ​​lead it is very difficult.

I remember a vacation in Kenya with some English friends.

At one point I walked into a room and everyone, each one in a corner, was suddenly reading.

The life of the English is very different. Is there a library in El Rincón, the castle that you inherited from your father? My Falcó family was not much of a reader, mind you.

They were more hunting.

Neither did my father, but his ex-wife, Fátima de la Cierva, did.

El Rincón is one of the protagonists of 'La Marquesa'.

Has he reciprocated with you or does he belong to all the brothers? El Rincón corresponds to the five brothers, but my father leaves some debts, especially with Manolo, my older brother.

We have to settle accounts with the banks, with his widow, and in the end Manolo buys his share from all the brothers except me.

He wanted me to buy and stay fifty percent, but I just bought a flat, I've got a mortgage, so I told him, Manolo, you're a

and in the end Manolo buys his share from all the brothers except me.

He wanted me to buy and stay fifty percent, but I just bought a flat, I've got a mortgage, so I told him, Manolo, you're a

and in the end Manolo buys his share from all the brothers except me.

He wanted me to buy and stay fifty percent, but I just bought a flat, I've got a mortgage, so I told him, Manolo, you're a

, great, but I don't have money for that.

So what I've done is keep my share.

He has 85 percent and I have 15. Besides, all that has to be fixed, El Rincón is falling apart;

You will see it in the series.

We have to repair the roof, the gardens... Of all that I have to pay 15 percent, and half I couldn't.

The truth is that the whole theme of El Rincón coincided with the reality show, and we thought that visiting it was one of the things we could do.

Total, we are going to see it with Netflix and we are received by a guard with a car with zeal. How with zeal? With CE-LO.

During Filomena a tree had fallen on top of the car and everything was sticky around it, on the windshield.

Me freaking out. Then you went to see him wildly. We went wildly.

The house had been closed for three years.

It was freezing cold.

They started recording everything.

I said, don't record!

And Juanpi [Juanpi Cofré, director of

], record!

He was delighted.

He told me, this is very good on television.

And I thought, I don't know exactly where the idea of ​​glamor and luxury that we want to give is here.

They had to convince me, but then I thought about it and said to myself, well, here begins the plot. Wasn't there a plot previously designed? I think we skipped pre-production a bit, and it would be important to do it if there is a second season.

There was a plot, a spiritual part, a trip to Jerusalem that finally could not be done due to Covid.

But, as my father used to say, divine providence never abandons its little birds, and El Rincón is falling apart and it was phenomenal for us, and then Carolina Herrera did her parade, and we all went to New York, we had the audience with the Dad...Are you worried that your spiritual side will be perceived as frivolous? I'm not worried.

I think it should be normal.

People see faith as far away because they don't know ordinary saints.

Faith is identified with churches, older people, habits, and I think it's great that people like Ani and Cas Finat come out, who are cute and fun girls, praying the rosary with me.

I think you have to show that side of normal people doing normal things. You have been building the reality show a little bit along the way, then.

At least you've taken the opportunity to give El Rincón a hand. Definitely.

My idea is that opening a restaurant there could be a long-term project.

For now it will be a

who are cute and fun girls, praying the rosary with me.

I think you have to show that side of normal people doing normal things. You have been building the reality show a little bit along the way, then.

At least you've taken the opportunity to give El Rincón a hand. Definitely.

My idea is that opening a restaurant there could be a long-term project.

For now it will be a

who are cute and fun girls, praying the rosary with me.

I think you have to show that side of normal people doing normal things. You have been building the reality show a little bit along the way, then.

At least you've taken the opportunity to give El Rincón a hand. Definitely.

My idea is that opening a restaurant there could be a long-term project.

For now it will be a

, initially three weekends in a row in September. Doing a reality show with your boyfriend is a kind of commitment.

Have you thought of it that way?

Does the season end with a ring? The idea at first was not for Íñigo to participate.

But the problem when you do a reality show is that you need people to talk to (laughs).

This, the people who want to do their reality show, take it into account.

You have to find people who are willing to go out, and that's a problem.

In my environment, first, my main relatives or each one has their manager or they charge their

, and the rest do not want to leave.

My friends run away from the press.

The last thing they want is to be in a Netflix thing.

So in the end we had to convince Íñigo. Imagine then that the first season is a success and we have to do more. Well, we're terrible.

Because we have caught them once, but the second will be worse.

And if this continues to be a success, imagine the eighteenth.

They were already stressing me out, like, we have to start recording in August, but I'm not going to start anything, I have to have surgery on my shoulder, leave me alone, I almost didn't survive the first one... They told me that was one of the questions I couldn't answer and I've already messed up, right? And about the menu at El Rincón, can you tell us something in advance?

With what it has cost me to get that menu forward.

Now that is a state secret.

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