Santiago Segura: "Ostentation embarrasses me"

Someone has written on Wikipedia that when he was 12 years old, at 12 years old!, Santiago Segura "began to have purchasing power", so much so that he bought a super eight camera....

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Someone has written on Wikipedia that when he was 12 years old, at 12 years old!,

Santiago Segura

"began to have purchasing power", so much so that he bought a super eight camera.

How can you have purchasing power at 12 years old?

Well, what happened is that he started going to the slaughterhouse, "but it must have been more around 14", he clarifies.

If it is that one cannot trust even Wikipedia.

So, he collected comics, his house was small and four people lived there, so it seems that his mother told him: "Son, we are going to have to leave home with so many comics."

And there went the little Segura to the street market to make "a quite interesting little business of buying and selling comedians."

The problem, in short, is that he came back with more comics than he sold.

Bad business for his mother... She was terrified.

I have always been a bit of a merchant, I have always liked to negotiate.

I remember that I rented my first comics to my classmates for a couple of pesetas.

I have always liked to negotiate, it is like a kind of necessity.

I don't know who told me the other day: "Uncle, those of you who have been poor always have a poor mentality."

I don't think it's a poor man's mentality, but a mentality that money is limited, that it's hard to come by and that it's a precious commodity.

Segura (Madrid, 1965) is finally "relaxed".

He has been promoting his latest film for a month,

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, and now that he has verified that the public has applauded and laughed in the cinema he can let go.

If the collection follows the trail of the rest of the saga, it will be, quia, a new success.

Since you're dedicated to dissecting humor, we suggest you get a little intense.

She accepts in his way, always laughing but always serious.

Does he laugh because he is serious or is he serious because he laughs?

It doesn't matter, because Segura speaks believing in what he says and that gives him seriousness.

And a lot of humor: «For me, the intensity... In an interview, I feel almost obliged to say something humorous, to see reality with humor, there is already so much seriousness in the environment... But come on, come on».

But, Santiago, you will also cry from time to time. Of course.

If that is the problem, that I cry more than I would like and suffer more than I would like.

I think that the complicated thing in life is to enjoy.

The enjoyment is not there for everyone and we are all happy, no, life is a valley of tears quite hard.

I am privileged, and you, because we are here, with air conditioning, talking about our nonsense.

Like when your heating breaks down and they tell you: "First world problems".

It's all so relative... I'm already intense.

It's all so relative because drama and comedy is a matter of point of view;

and of time and distance, you can laugh at certain things with distance and time.

What was that colleague referring to that "poor man's mentality"? I'm a bit absurd.

Right now I come from the radio, they gave me a car but I came on foot.

I always go by bicycle from the town hall, I still use public transport... Another example: when a record came out that I wanted at all costs, my friends would go to the Corte Inglés and buy it for them.

I knew that after three months I was going to get it at La Metralleta second-hand and the pleasure it gave me to get it cheaper I think is the origin of the sales.

A friend told me: "You're a rat for yourself. Because then you give gifts to people you care about, invite them to eat...".

But that is different, because it is giving to people.

Then I give myself whims too, but not one that could embarrass me.

I am embarrassed by ostentation.

When

I still use public transport... Another example: when a record came out that I wanted at all costs, my friends would go to the Corte Inglés and buy it for them.

I knew that after three months I was going to get it at La Metralleta second-hand and the pleasure it gave me to get it cheaper I think is the origin of the sales.

A friend told me: "You're a rat for yourself. Because then you give gifts to people you care about, invite them to eat...".

But that is different, because it is giving to people.

Then I give myself whims too, but not one that could embarrass me.

I am embarrassed by ostentation.

When

I still use public transport... Another example: when a record came out that I wanted at all costs, my friends would go to the Corte Inglés and buy it for them.

I knew that after three months I was going to get it at La Metralleta second-hand and the pleasure it gave me to get it cheaper I think is the origin of the sales.

A friend told me: "You're a rat for yourself. Because then you give gifts to people you care about, invite them to eat...".

But that is different, because it is giving to people.

Then I give myself whims too, but not one that could embarrass me.

I am embarrassed by ostentation.

When

I knew that after three months I was going to get it at La Metralleta second-hand and the pleasure it gave me to get it cheaper I think is the origin of the sales.

A friend told me: "You're a rat for yourself. Because then you give gifts to people you care about, invite them to eat...".

But that is different, because it is giving to people.

Then I give myself whims too, but not one that could embarrass me.

I am embarrassed by ostentation.

When

I knew that after three months I was going to get it at La Metralleta second-hand and the pleasure it gave me to get it cheaper I think is the origin of the sales.

A friend told me: "You're a rat for yourself. Because then you give gifts to people you care about, invite them to eat...".

But that is different, because it is giving to people.

Then I give myself whims too, but not one that could embarrass me.

I am embarrassed by ostentation.

When

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, that I earned some money, I went to buy a car.

I had always had second-hand cars and I had already seen a Mercedes SLK, one of those hard tops that lean back, beautiful, and suddenly I visualized myself in that car and said: "This is not the image I want give". If I wanted it! But I thought: "Why do I want this car? It's ostentatious. The irony of life is that I didn't buy it and I continued in my yellow Cinquecento and one day someone says to me: with the money he has, what a shitty car". It made me laugh, because if it had been the other way around, he would have told me that I'm showing off. At what point, in the words of your friend, did you stop being poor? I've never really felt Poor thing. There was a moment in childhood when I saw that there were things...

I really liked to draw and my mother gave me one of those notebooks with blank pages, not squared.

She then told him: "Mom, I've run out, buy me another one."

And she answered me that there were still blanks to fill in.

There I realized that we were not swimming in abundance, although I have always lived well.

Of my friends he was always the one who had something saved.

I remember, when I was 20 years old, that on weekends we used to go to the town of someone who spent everything and to return he didn't even have money for the train.

And then I would take a five thousand peseta bill out of my sock, the one for emergencies, and he would say: "Damn, we had that there and no we haven't spent it".

Goodness!

Otherwise you wouldn't have for the ticket.

I have been very farsighted in that,

I also think that the main function of money is to serve as a cushion so that you can live in a kind of spiritual peace if you have an emergency. Is that a humble family mentality? I have another friend who lives beyond his means, but with a joy and a happiness... He lives much better than me, as if he were wealthy, and he has nowhere to fall dead.

He comes from a good family.

I wouldn't like my daughters to think, like this guy, that everything is going to be easy. It's not bad that their immediate future is solved thanks to their work. standard.

No, no, the normal is the average and you are well above the average, maybe you are in the 20% of the lucky people who live with all the comforts, and that must be valued.

We would be happier if we were grateful for what we have and did not think about what we do not have.

We are going to change the third. Yes, because I am sinking. What has happened to the audiovisual law?

Independent production companies have criticized it because they say that the modification of a sentence harms them. When a government is going to approve a law and changes a word that can modify the content of the law, it is worrying.

And you talk to the Government and explain to them that the meaning is being distorted and they tell you that nothing is happening... Is it interpretive? No, no, the lawyers have explained that the law is losing force. when a government modifies a law with which they were in agreement and, when they are warned of the negative impact that it may cause, it maintains it? Vested interests.

I live this as an independent producer.

In the end you realize that there are so many things we don't know about... Do you like politics? It's necessary, but it tenses me up, it's something that seems murky to me, and it's a shame.

There are good politicians, who have a vocation for public service and to serve their country, for sure, but you have to discern them, vote for them, and it is very difficult.

A question about the movie, Santiago ["finally!" he exclaims].

Do you think that the family model on which it is based is conservative? I think it is a traditional family, it is not a family with two fathers or mothers of the same sex.

We always talk a little about what we know. Is that one of the factors of your success? laugh at what you don't know

This family is traditional, yes, but it is also dysfunctional.

The beautiful thing is that the mortar of this family is love, it works because they love each other, and I think that's nice to see.

With what is happening -the pandemic, the war, the heat wave...- I think that friendly cinema acquires weight, like humor, it becomes a balm.

If you're laughing, you don't think about the mortgage or your father dying of cancer.

Sometimes, in this world, oblivion is gratifying.

I think we got an hour and a half of real distraction with this film, the story drags you and you get into it and when you leave you are with a smile.