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Clara Lago

(Madrid 1990) belongs to that select group of people who are impossible to contradict.

And it is not so much that she is right, but probably also, as something previous and hardly identifiable that keeps her out of doubt.

The poet said that those who cannot have anything else end up being right.

It's not her case.

The problem is that this actress who was seen as a child in series like

, who at just 12 years old was already a revelation actress in

and who, after daring to corner characters in movies that boasted edges like

or

, acquired the glory of excessive fame thanks to the most watched film in history (do I need to quote it? Come on, all together:

);

the problem, we said, is that she smiles, her eyes narrow and she disarms.

And it is not about poetizing the evanescent smile in the manner of mellifluous poets.

No.

Then comes another.

That said, if Clara Lago falls ill, the problem is the affected person, not hers.

It is so.

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Now he is recovering his Argentine accent, the same one that he exhibited perfectly in

and

and is preparing to star in

, the Disney+ series in which the always restless

and

have been involved . Those of

and

.

In it, Claro Lago gives life to a rich woman sick with wealth.

and bad.

Very bad.

Think of

and now forget it.

On the other side of the Zoom, Clara Lago smiles.

That Argentine accent is beginning to be a genetic trait... Call it a double personality.

Of course, in this series, due to the characteristics of the character who lives between Madrid and Buenos Aires, it is justified that he is not perfect.

Let's say that everything I tried before to make a clear and very Buenos Aires accent, now has been a job of dirtying it.

It is neither from here nor from there.

It's a hybrid. How do you get along with being rich?

Is wealth more photogenic than poverty? It's definitely more fun to be rich.

And although it is very angry and very unfair, it is also more photogenic.

If you have more money you can buy more things that beautify you.

Society, not the series, is like that.

Much of the success of Succession, a series with which there is some promotional effort to pair it with Limbo, consists in the possibility of gossiping about what the rich do.

..The truth is that I had not thought about this until today.

I imagine it has to do with empathy, which is what moves us when establishing a bond with a character.

And no one empathizes with the perfect.

We like to see what the rich do, but we like more that the rich suffer.

Society demands perfection from us.

It's constantly there on social media.

There is a social obsession with getting where you probably will never get. You mentioned social media.

Are they the problem? In part, I imagine so.

Look at Instagram and the filters.

Everyone shows up with perfect skin and you wonder: Why not me?

And that creates incredible frustration.

That's why when they show you millionaires who screw up, who aren't perfect... something comforts.

Pleasure of consolation...Well,

I have always defended that there is a part of my acting profession that fulfills a social function.

Through fictional characters one can see oneself as well.

By empathizing with the lives of others, we rehearse situations in our own lives.

It's a bit of therapy, even if it's unconscious. What relationship do you have with social networks?

I'm a mess.

I always tell the joke that instead of being an influencer I'm an influencer.

And it makes me angry sometimes.

I can't think of fun things to do that I see other people think of.

I don't quite understand them very well.

From time to time I get to thinking that either I have nothing to tell the world or what I have to tell is of no interest to anyone at all.

I don't quite understand that showcase that networks are. But he uses them.

Yes, but I use them more as a consumer of certain accounts.

I'm not interested in knowing what people do with their lives.

If I want to know what a friend is doing, I don't use social networks, I call him directly by phone or meet him.

I'm a bit old, I admit it.

Social networks do not serve to know the emotional state of anyone.

They serve to know what you have eaten and with whom.

But that doesn't feed me. And how do you manage the power and responsibility of fame? Yes, I am aware of the responsibility because by being known you know that there are people who will listen to you whatever you say.

But it gives me more shame than responsibility.

I have the Fundación Ochotumbao and I promote it without a doubt.

But personally, I'm bad at it.

Have I ever uploaded a photo of a plate of spaghetti that I ate and then felt horrible.

But who is going to care about my diet, for God's sake?

And intimacy... If you share it,

it ceases to be intimacy.

Other times, I've worked hard and I've written a thoughtful and lengthy text about something and, nothing, people don't read that.

[Series].

If there are more than three emoticons there is no mode.

But I have doubts.

Let's change the subject.

What does this series mean now?

Or in another way: Did you have to go to Argentina because you couldn't find what to do in Spain? No, no.

I feel very well.

For me this series is a real gift.

Right now I choose the projects solely based on whether I feel like it, or nourishes me.

I feel absolutely privileged.

If I look back, I realize that it is a constant in my career.

I have never done food papers.

I am directly responsible for everything I have done.

And that is a luxury considering that I started as a child.

I have the impression that I have always been growing slowly, but without pause,

being careful what he did and with whom.

I am well aware that an acting career is built as much on what you do as, more importantly, on what you don't do.

It's in a good moment then... No, very good, very good moment.

[Breaks out laughing]. By the way, isn't a vegan contradictory in Argentina, the country of meat? And more so with Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (the creators of the series) who dedicated a film,

, to the meat.

But no, the amount of vegan offer in Buenos Aires is surprising.

The more meat culture, the more counterculture is generated. Is it urgent to become vegan? Yes.

We have to become vegan or reduce the consumption of meat for love, for love of the planet, of humans... because if we don't go to hell.

It is the individual human act that has the most global impact.

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