Candela Peña: "If with three Goyas I eat shit from pipes, imagine the girls that come from behind"

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This interview begins as it ended, with the conversation after turning off the recorder.

Because trying to foresee something with

(Gavá, 1973) is even more fiction than the one that supports her 29-year professional career.

-Marica, my problem is that I'm a very bad actress for life.

-But that phrase must be said in the interview, Candela, not now.

-I let you use it wherever you want.

And this perfectly defines the character.

Because, behind the created image of a tough and vindictive aunt, lies a woman worried because in her great moment in the audiovisual she has not received a call in three years.

She now goes on stage at the Teatro Pavón with her friend Pilar Castro to star in

.

Although her break has not made her shut up either.

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There it goes.

What is it like to go back to the theater and with your friend Pilar Castro? When you're at your best moment, a drought hits you in the audiovisual world and you feel really down because you don't know why they don't call you.

So I was between two performances and Pilar arrived to tell me to read another one that she had sent me years ago.

And my theory that the projects choose you came true, I had to tell a labor dystopia, how the system squeezes you to get what it wants from you. Is that dystopia or is it reality? It's that if you question work and the system, they spit you out like a ball of cat fur.

The show is about that, that they scare you so much that you can't stop, they squeeze you like a cloth without leaving a drop.

You have to understand the metaphor. Is it 'you're lucky enough to have a job'? I even felt that it was wrong to ask for a script to read it.

Terrible things have been said to me, a director who did not know me made me swear to him that I would behave, as if I were beelzebub.

And I am more fragile than people think, I got scared and hurt.

But the system is like that and no matter how punky I am, I'm not going to change it, but I try to shake it up with art. Has the downturn been that big? You do a job that breaks it, you believe it, they give you prizes and, suddenly, they go down the blinds.

I'm not saying it as a complaint, I'm aware that there are good and bad moments, but you think that if you work hard they will have empathy.

And not.

One day you feel like you are going to touch the sky with your hands and the next both arms have been amputated. Do you feel as if you have gone back to 2012 when you gave that speech at the Goyas? Before it was not the same because you did not have a child to my position,

That's why I let myself fall into that thing about sadness and the bucolic French actress.

And now I have to be more active and be able to carry out projects.

Work calls work and here I am, but I only ask to read what is offered to me and not to be labeled. What labels have you felt? I have felt punished for giving my opinion.

And my opinion can be a hoax, perfect, but I don't want to be labeled a problem for that.

Because the world depresses me if we can't say anything.

I'm not going to invent who I am not to please.

I am the same with my mother, with my son, with the one from the supermarket or with the King for better or for worse. You talk about having suffered an economic crisis, with all that you have worked and with three Goyas can you pass ?That's why I say it, fat man, if I eat three Goyas like shit, imagine the girls that come after me.

I say this for myself and for all my colleagues.

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How have these three years without working been? With the luck of having a therapist who tells me that I'll pay when I go back to work.

My life is cheating and owing to one or the other.

Because when things go well, everyone gives you gifts, when things go wrong, nobody.

But I do?

I have to continue. And you haven't thought about quitting? It's just that mine is vocational, I wouldn't do anything else.

Before leaving this profession, I would go on a shoot to be an assistant director, a driver or put up beacon tapes.

For me, art is a healer and if of all those who come to see this work, I save one of their lives, as the cinema saved me, that's worth it. What do you see if you look back on your career? I see an aunt with Two balls, I've never been flattered and I could have settled on being something easier.

But I have fought to make protagonists without being a canon woman.

I don't want to be José Coronado's wife, as I already said in a meeting, I want his leading role.

I have every right not to want to be the woman of, to be me. Do you listen to them less now? With everything I've told you, what do you think? Yes, the truth. Well, that's it.

But the system is classist, huh.

If the scripts are requested by someone who works in Hollywood or by Cate Blanchett they give them to you, not to you. In July 2021, we talked about the fact that you were negotiating to develop your series 'Puerto y camino', how are you doing? I want to touch because it is turned around.

There is no space to tell that.

How is it going?

In process.

I am a Malaysian drop and if it is not a series, it will be a movie.

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon that I don't want to open.

I have every right not to want to be the woman of, to be me. Do you listen to them less now? With everything I've told you, what do you think? Yes, the truth. Well, that's it.

But the system is classist, huh.

If the scripts are requested by someone who works in Hollywood or by Cate Blanchett they give them to you, not to you. In July 2021, we talked about the fact that you were negotiating to develop your series 'Puerto y camino', how are you doing? I want to touch because it is turned around.

There is no space to tell that.

How is it going?

In process.

I am a Malaysian drop and if it is not a series, it will be a movie.

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

I have every right not to want to be the woman of, to be me. Do you listen to them less now? With everything I've told you, what do you think? Yes, the truth. Well, that's it.

But the system is classist, huh.

If the scripts are requested by someone who works in Hollywood or by Cate Blanchett they give them to you, not to you. In July 2021, we talked about the fact that you were negotiating to develop your series 'Puerto y camino', how are you doing? I want to touch because it is turned around.

There is no space to tell that.

How is it going?

In process.

I am a Malaysian drop and if it is not a series, it will be a movie.

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

Hey.

If the scripts are requested by someone who works in Hollywood or by Cate Blanchett they give them to you, not to you. In July 2021, we talked about the fact that you were negotiating to develop your series 'Puerto y camino', how are you doing? I want to touch because it is turned around.

There is no space to tell that.

How is it going?

In process.

I am a Malaysian drop and if it is not a series, it will be a movie.

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

Hey.

If the scripts are requested by someone who works in Hollywood or by Cate Blanchett they give them to you, not to you. In July 2021, we talked about the fact that you were negotiating to develop your series 'Puerto y camino', how are you doing? I want to touch because it is turned around.

There is no space to tell that.

How is it going?

In process.

I am a Malaysian drop and if it is not a series, it will be a movie.

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

it will be a movie

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

it will be a movie

And otherwise I won't.

And her debut as a presenter? Another melon I don't want to open.

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