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Between the coronavirus and Alzheimer's,
Eduard Fernández
(Barcelona, 1964) was left with a debt to his mother.
"She died in Barcelona, I couldn't go, I couldn't say goodbye and I have that weird feeling of not being there."
And, to settle it, he has found the remedy on stage, turned into her, with the monologue
Todas las canciones de amor,
premiered this Saturday in Valladolid and which arrives at the Teatros de Canal in Madrid on Friday.
Because he, permanent cigarette in hand, was always "a mama's boy" and when on a trip to Buenos Aires, with his death still recent, he came across Santiago Loza's text, he wanted to make it his own as a farewell message.
"Their relationship was very similar to ours, I changed the son's name to Eduardo, we added something and I want this to be my mother's celebration.
I know it's absurd, but it's weird not to say goodbye in person
."
Do you need to tell your mother something?
No, I told her everything, but I have within her a debt to my mother for having been little with her in the end of her due to personal circumstances.
And it was good that she died, she wanted to, she had Alzheimer's and she had already spent a little too much time here.
My family and I lived well both death and Alzheimer's, which they told us was so hard, but as an actor concerned about the human condition, even horror seems beautiful to me.
And here I have found it.
After living it and remembering it, is one afraid of suffering it?
I haven't thought about it, but now because of you I will.
I suppose that life is terrible and wonderful and in the end you see the deterioration, very tragic moments, but there are others that are almost comical, as if he turned into a clown.
Are the years the ones that allow him to face this alone?
When I finish rehearsing I'll tell you, but it's easier.
Although the word is very son of a bitch because you end up believing it and the reality is simpler.
I am very amused by those actors who say they are possessed and are not their character.
If you cry making a character and we analyze the tear, that tear will be yours.
There is a lot of oneself there and we can see where each one is with their performances.
Is your life defined by your characters?
The same as what I eat or my friends... In the characters one dares to let go of everything he has because the actors are insecure.
It's more you doing someone else than when you go down the street.
In between, nostalgia and a bucolic look towards the past sneak in.
"We must not leverage our ego, I did it because I was a crybaby. Now I'm fine, I've grown and matured, but I
was able to imagine terrible things to cry because I felt comfortable in sadness
"
We live in a world quite installed in nostalgia, right?
It's wonderful to think that one always ends up saying the same thing as their parents and grandparents.
That young people today are worse than before is more a matter of age than reality.
When you look at her daughter, also an actress, what does she see?
When I first went to the psychologist, I would look down and think what was happening to my daughter.
Because there you stop being the protagonist who only receives, you are a sender who gives things to her.
Life and parenthood consist of cutting bad strings to your daughter.
If you cut one, it's already worth it
. What did you cut?
Some, but that's what I keep to myself.
Now the two words that spring to mind about this personal moment are "fragile" and "vertigo."
And both "only break acting, rehearsing, trusting and being up there" on stage.
"It is a challenge to dare to feel that fragility at all"
.
As a man, is it easier to be fragile now?
That's what they say, it seems that at this time he has to say it.
I don't see him very convinced.
It's just that I don't like this mannerism that man can now cry.
There are things that we should already take for granted even though there are people who do not have them.
We all have the right to show ourselves and respect ourselves as we are, each one feels his body and his mind as he wants.
Anyone who is against gays or trans, for example, is against love and it is outrageous.
With trans people there are people who deny them their right to be.
Those people cannot be called Christians.
A little common sense, everyone has the right to love, to exist and to be happy.
And whoever prevents it has a problem and we should contribute it.
You talk about mental health and going to the psychologist from a generation that hasn't taken much care of you.
I suppose it depends on the framework, in mine of progressives and artists it is already common at my age.
Just like you do Physical Education, going through the psychologist is common sense.
That's why before he didn't seem very convinced because it should already be very normal, giving it an extraordinary character seems to me as bad as hiding it.
Almost everything in the world should now be normal, there is no need to do huge celebrations or prevent anything.
Without prior notice, Eduard Fernández returns to the profession and to the security that reinforces a career.
In his case, almost always praised by critics.
"
I also have bad reviews, but every day they interest me less, I am interested in the comments of the people closest
to me , not on the day of the premiere and not without asking. Those people who say they didn't like you, have I asked you?"
And he issues a warning: "I always tell my daughter that if you go up suddenly, you are in danger of going down suddenly. If you go down steps, you go down one or two."
Now is it easier to jump up?
It is much easier and this profession has something very bad about it, which is the ego, which is the cancer of our society and affects us all.
But in this profession, people who do evil, sometimes unknowingly, promote the ego of an actor, make you believe you are someone, and do shit to young people.
Has something of that ego also touched you?
Yes, I have a lot, but as you get older and based on a few hosts you forget about it.
But the defect is there, although I am very happy not to be very famous.
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