Cinema The consecration of Telmo Irureta, the actor with cerebral palsy: "I refuse to be considered a victim"
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Telmo Irureta
, a 34-year-old from San Sebastián, received the Goya for Best New Actor this Sunday night, taking the stage in a wheelchair, but without an iota of victimhood in his attitude or words.
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The interpreter of
The Rite of Spring,
who always dreamed of becoming a professional actor despite studying Teaching and Pedagogy, has suffered from
cerebral palsy
due to
encephalitis
since he was two years old.
In his speech, he wanted to thank the Academy and ask for a toast
"for a more inclusive cinema and with bodies of all kinds"
, to which he received applause from the public.
With obvious nervousness, he also took the opportunity to thank Fernando Franco for the opportunity to play David, a character with whom he wanted to make it clear to people that disabled people "also have rights, we also exist and we also fuck".
Irureta thus claims his 'particular abnormality', which he displayed during the presentation of
The Rite of Spring
at the San Sebastian Film Festival in September last year.
He also does it in his own monologues, in which he boasts of each of his stumbling blocks, such as
Toquecito minus,
and other plays where he reflects his double personality - tender and cruel - of him, such as
Sexberdinak.
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