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When

(Barcelona, ​​1995) goes out for a drink with her friends, they are C. Tangana or Anna Castillo.

When she meets her father for lunch, her companion is Eduard Fernández.

She lives surrounded by a level of fame to which she was heading unstoppably in 2019, when the success of

and, above all,

made her the best actress at the San Sebastián festival,

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on Instagram.

She was everywhere and suddenly she was gone.

Now it opens in theaters

, his first film in three long years.

"They stopped calling me and it was screwed, that's the truth.

, but I know what this profession is like, I'm young and here I am. I'm going well where I want to go," the actress relativizes.

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Are you a person with a clear destiny?

Yes. I'm not very obsessive and, if life takes me to another place, I leave myself a lot, but I am a girl who is clear about what she wants, what I like, what I don't, where I am headed and what kind of projects I want interest.

And I have been very lucky because life has accompanied me in that direction and I have not had to fight so that the projects that come to me conform to what I want.

I don't have to turn down papers all the time, far from it.

What happened after the

of 2019? Nobody gave me a job.

Totally stopped, until I started shooting this project, I was a year.

It was tough, I'm not going to lie to you.

It's good to learn that all the ups come down, but it was very difficult for me.

I have the excuse of the pandemic, which works a little in my favor because I can ask myself what would have happened without it.

Would they have called me more?

We will never know and the reality is that it was a total stoppage.

Luckily, I got through it because it didn't take me completely by surprise: I didn't succeed all of a sudden, I've been doing this for many years and I have an actor father.

I know the trade.

The thing is, I had never had the opportunity to really show my work and my talent and when they gave me those two films… Boo!

It was a super high and then just as strong a crash.

It's okay,

because then I have had some more breaks and I already take them with more calm, I know that this is how it goes, but until it happens to you the first time you do not just believe it.

Rare is the actor who always has work.

Yes, but there are also exceptions and I am surrounded by exceptions.

My father is one.

He is very good and he deserves to be working all the time, but it is not normal.

Anna Castillo is another who does not stop.

She is an actress and my bosom friend, but she is not ordinary.

Even if you are a very good actor, having quality, well-paid work all the time is an exception.

Unlike other people who live this world far away and have it idealized, I know what the reality of the job is and that bad moment has been good for me to realize my place and feel comfortable in it,

that it is important in an ego job like this to not be jealous or envy.

I really admire the people around me, both the exceptions like my father or Anna and other people who work hard, but don't have a job.

And I am somewhere in between.

I am not an actress who is working all the time nor do I get scripts every day.

I'd like to work a lot more, but I'm in a good place: I've done leading roles, I have four films to release this year and I'm aware of my privilege, although... You thought it would be different. Yes, because it didn't work for me. It's easy to reach what I achieved in 2019. Everyone can think what they want when I say this, but the reality is that it was very difficult for me to get a leading role and, above all, that it works and is of quality.

So when I got it,

Yes, I thought that so much recognition, the Silver Shell and the nominations, already put me in a place, gave me peace of mind, stability and status... Well, no.

Did you scratch a lot?

I'm not very neurotic or very obsessive.

My fears are financial or boredom, not because my self-esteem is lowered and I get whipped.

The industry is what it is and it is complicated, but I am calm because I believe that I am doing things that are good, even if they are not many, and I receive a

very nice

You can't blame everything on yourself.

Greta Fernández. JAVIER BARBANCHOMUNDO

Have you had any bad reviews?

No, none.

At least that I remember.

Better, because it must hurt. Conclusion: that you continue living for rent. You see.

This is my fifth year in Madrid, although everyone thinks I live in Barcelona, ​​and here I am, juggling to pay these crazy rents like any young person.

There are quite a few preconceived ideas about the money you earn as an actress or actor.

I wish with two movies I could go buy a flat!

Impossible.

Besides, I'm not a series actress.

I've done one on Netflix,

, which has been very good for me because it has given me economic peace of mind that I did not have and I do not mind saying it openly, but auteur cinema is not enough to live in Spain, even though certain malicious people like to promote the idea that the actors are millionaires.

Those are four, but it generalizes. Who generalizes?

It is that the right is dedicated to lying, it is his way of being, and he loves to attack Spanish cinema.

Lies so blatant that they don't make sense, like exaggerating the cost of the campaigns of the Ministry of Equality or spending the day with the fact that the actors from Podemos are lining ourselves up with public money and I don't know how many other hoaxes.

But, let's see, how much money do they think they pay us?

That we earn a million per movie?

We are crazy?

That nonsense happens in Hollywood, not in Spain.

They believe that idea that the left-wing actors take the subsidies and remain so wide.

All lie.

I am also Catalan, so they adore me [laughs].

How are you doing the airlift?

Now I am happy because I feel that the climate of confrontation has decreased.

It has been difficult, because I feel that Barcelona is my home, but I am madly in love with Madrid.

As soon as I arrive in Barcelona I think: "I really want to go back to my house, which is Madrid".

I don't know, just as at the time it was very strong and very tense, I feel that everything is calmer, that we are gradually returning to normality.

I have many pro-independence friends and, also, many friends in Madrid who do not understand anything about what happened, and I notice both of them much calmer.

It is appreciated.

Tired of the topic?

I share many things about myself, I am very feminist,

I think about everything and at the time I got into politics a lot, but the truth is that, and it feels bad to say it, how tiring.

I have almost stopped looking at Twitter because, since everything is political, I only find discussions and reproaches.

We are in a very unpleasant place right now, although I refuse to fall for that fashionable thing that all politicians and parties are the same.

No, they are not.

That is a very dangerous message.

No politician has to represent you, not even my friends represent me, I hardly represent myself, but not all ideas and all politicians are the same.

How is one part going to be the same as the other?

That is bullshit and what the right wants us to believe, but we cannot fall for that, resign ourselves and neglect the social, which is what is really important.

This is how I have been educated at home and I do not forget it.

Speaking of your family, have you already removed the label of 'Eduard Fernández's daughter'?

Yes I think so.

We both take it very naturally now: I'm doing my thing, he's doing his thing and, in fact, we recently commented that let's see when they offer us a good father-daughter movie, because we'd like to do one now that I'm older. greater than in

.

I would like.

I'll leave it there in case they listen to us. How can you tell that you're young.

it's from nothing.

Yes, but at my age life changes very quickly [laughs].

They keep making me very young in the movies because physically I can give 20 and I can give 30, but let's not kid ourselves: I'm already closer to 30. And that's a melon that I don't want to open, growing older in this profession and what it costs to get papers.

I prefer not to think about it, because if it's hard for me now to get a job, in 15 years it could be... But, well, it fits me, it fits me.

Hopefully, by the time you reach that age, the scarcity of roles for women over 40 will have disappeared.

Don't you notice an improvement? The truth is that right now I have a bit of trouble with the industry.

Many people say that we are in a good moment because there are many projects, but that is in the series.

I feel that the cinema is hanging by a thread.

This year very good films have been made in Spain, but as an actress, like Greta, I know that there are not that many, that there is still a lack of work.

The directors of big movies like to work with their actors and they repeat themselves, and small movies are made five or six and, perhaps, only one of them stars girls my age and my profile.

So it's really hard to get a part.

Now I am studying French and looking to go abroad.

My father tells me why, that there is work here.

"Yeah, sure, dad, for you, we've got the rest screwed up" [laughs].

In Spain there is very good cinema, but there is not work for everyone.

This is not France.

So I have to diversify: work abroad and also do other types of projects.

I wouldn't mind making lighter stories either, but they don't call me for firecracker things. You're serious.

They only call me for painful things, for wars, abuse, prostitution... I'm funny and people don't know it!

Many people when they meet me are surprised because they thought that I am cold, distant and serious.

That I say: "But what am I doing wrong? What image am I giving on Instagram or wherever of an intense French poet?" On Instagram, a little intense yes you go.

I'm going intense.

It's true.

Think that my father is an actor and my mother is a writer, how can I not be intense?

My mother speaks to me with poetry on WhatsApp!

At home I have lived daily with emotion and intensity on the surface.

I've taken off a lot, but miracles I can't do either.

Are you very aware of the image you give?

How much slavery does Instagram generate you?

The truth is that I do not have much struggle with it.

There is one thing that my representative does not want me to say but it is the truth: I live a lot on Instagram.

Fashion gives me money, money that I need to live.

It's very nice to be a prestigious actress and the muse of new directors, but I don't eat that and I have to make do with campaigns and photos.

And I live very well thanks to them.

I can't complain, but I need them.

I am very pragmatic and if this is what is making money come in now, then it is what I am going to do.

What I can't afford is to go crazy and give up Instagram because it's not an actress's job.

Well, girl, it is what it is.

Also, I've liked fashion a lot since I was little and it's something that comes out on its own.

I'm not a famous girl, I'm not overwhelmed, I don't suffer for it.

Are you noticing a vital change as you become more and more famous? Not really, thanks to the fact that I surround myself with very famous people.

really famous.

I go with Pucho [C.

Tangana, for non-friends], with Anna [Castillo] or with my father on the street, and they know them, not me.

I live very comfortably in the background.

Sometimes they recognize me, but no one goes crazy.

I do not have a teenage fame, because I have not made any product

, and there is no fanaticism of wanting to know my life, who I am with or who I am no longer with.

When they stop me it is always to congratulate me on my work and that seems wonderful to me.

That other fame that I see around me does not attract me.

But, if everything goes the way you want, it will come to you. Let's see this year, because I have four premieres and there may be another rush.

One is a small role that is my Hollywood debut.

Already in Hollywood? Actually, I've been doing

in Hollywood for many years, it's always been in my plans.

I have already told you that with Spain it doesn't work and I don't think I'll be stuck for a year again.

You have to move.

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