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There are successes that pigeonhole you, that's normal. But being pigeonholed as a 50-year-old woman when you're a 30-year-old man isn't so normal anymore. That's what, in some strange way, happened to Brays Efe (Las Palmas, 1988) with Paquita Salas, although, let's be serious, who would want to stop being Paquita? The actor is not overwhelmed: "I always think that I hope they pigeonhole me and do not stop working," he says, half jokingly half seriously, a few days before premiering The Fantastic Case of the Golem, where he is the protagonist and finally...

An ordinary uncle role. Yes, it's true that my characters are usually quite loud. It has been interesting because I know that I am not the first actor who usually thinks of for a role like this and I myself, when I see myself in this movie, I wonder where all that noise is from other times or if what I have done will be enough. I am very happy with the opportunity. Weren't you really worried about pigeonholing yourself? It depends on the moment, but the truth is that it has a good part. You want to be seen doing different things as an actor, but above all you want to have a job. I am not at the moment where I can choose much, I take the opportunities that are in my hands and I have been lucky that I have been called by the Burnin' Barnacles for this role. I'm happy I was able to explore something else, but if I had been called for something noisy, I would have had to be noisy. There is nothing wrong with having a very strong role. See Resins making Resins. And it's fantastic, too. It is the best resins that exists.

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Reality.

Paula Vázquez and Brays Efe, the sweet peacemakers: "Before a cake, there are no ideologies or tension"

  • Writing: PABLO R. ROCES

Paula Vázquez and Brays Efe, the sweet peacemakers: "Before a cake, there are no ideologies or tension"

Cinema.

Antonio Resines: "I was saved by a fucking miracle... and because public health is the host"

  • Writing: IÑAKO DÍAZ-GUERRA

Antonio Resines: "I was saved by a fucking miracle... And because public health is the host"Do you have the feeling that the last five years of your life can be explained as this role: a normal uncle to whom extraordinary things happen? I thought you were going to say about everyone's lives (laughs), although I would change extraordinary for absurd. We've all been like this for several years, haven't we? Although the movie has a very fanciful and science-fiction part, what underlies it is something where we have all been, that you get up, everyone is asking you for explanations, nobody explains anything to you and you just want to drink a beer. With that we can all identify. What is life like after Paquita Salas? I don't know because Paquita Salas is still in my life. It has been something very important for me on a professional and personal level, they ask me about it on the street, people still write to me who have seen it, who discover it or who are seeing it for I do not know how long. And I understand and I like it. I still get along very well with Paquita Salas and her idea. People often ask me, "When are you coming back? When does he come back?" As if I had the key, that question is for other people... You don't have the key, but do you win them? I'm still happy. I am working and doing things that I like and fulfill, but if tomorrow they tell me "here is the contract to do Paquita again", I would sign without hesitation. He's a character that I've had a great time with and I feel like there are still things to explore. It would be great, but if it doesn't happen it would also be fine. It would be selfish of me to ask more of Paquita Salas, she has already given me a lotHas the universe of the Javis and their actors been forced to create a community in the style of what happened with Almodóvar in the 80s? I don't know, I'm not so aware of how we look from the outside. I do remember very clearly when the phenomenon of the Javis began: when, suddenly, we ourselves began to call them the Javis. For me they were Javi and Javi and, suddenly, they became a unit for everyone: the Javis. I found that curious, I realized it was happening, but we are not a commune or anything like that. They are my friends, I see them from time to time, the truth is that less and less because we are all very busy and that's it. It's not that we're a group like The Avengers, if someone sees us like that, I'd freeze. People, especially the media, like to put labels and champion a moment, but one is not responsible for the narratives that are generated about him. Of course, it is also smart to take advantage of them if they serve you. Have you taken advantage of them? Less than people think. At first, Paquita Salas was a very low cost project, but as it was very successful people began to think that I was a millionaire. Unfortunately, success and money don't always go together and I feel sorry for all those souls I just shattered reading this. Paloma Chamorro said one thing I love: "I'm too famous for the clothes I have." When you get it, you discover that success is not what you think and that the fact that everyone knows you does not make you a millionaire or anything like that. I can't complain, because I've worked a lot, but I've been in the red quite a few times, as have almost all my colleagues. Participate in reality shows such as Your face sounds to me or Celebrity Bake Off has been a good economic relief. Sure, and I'm proud to have been in them. In Spain entertainment is still looked over its shoulder, although I think less and less. The worlds are more mixed and there are people of all kinds who participate in them. I remember perfectly that the host of a very popular reality show this year [Sergio Peris-Mencheta], when I made Tu cara me suena, said: "How sad that this person who has done one of the best acting jobs of the year what they offer him is a reality show." Well, he's presenting one now [Traitors]. It makes me very funny. It's a fairly widespread view in a previous generation that hasn't grown up with as many reality shows as we have. I was caught when I was 10 years old by the first Big Brother or the first Operación Triunfo, they are part of my culture. Do you still see them? Of course and I think no one doubts the musical quality of Amaia because she has been a contestant of OT. Those prejudices towards entertainment are disappearing. For example, I am very sorry that Save Me disappears. Why? Because I'm going to lose an inexhaustible source of inspiration about how to really talk on the street. I have prepared many roles watching Save Me. Sit with your back to the TV, change the channel, and stop when you hear something that really sounds like a friend of yours talking. Very rarely is it a television series or a movie. Save Me is real life [laughs]. Let's talk about your real life. You have said that you suffered bullying for many years. Before the pandemic I did a cathartic performance in theater, The Extraordinary Things, which helped me deal with many things, not just bullying. Even so, although I have worked on it, I have freed myself and I am fine, sometimes I still remember how I felt and I wonder how it could happen and, above all, what I can do to not feel like this again. Because things still come back from time to time that make me feel bad again. I don't know, sometimes I wonder if I'm always going to feel that fragility... I guess. As much as I've worked psychologically, sometimes I don't know what I'm like. Doesn't this happen to everyone? I would say yes, but there is now a somewhat obsessive fashion with self-knowledge. I don't know, let's see, if you're going to fall badly, better not know you [laughs]. It's the same as with your idols. I, of course, only know each other at times. Now that you're a successful actor, do you have a vindictive point with someone who treated you badly? The truth is that no, because I have not given myself many temptations to be either. My first stage of school was in a place, Nigrán, to which I have never returned and although Calahorra, which is where I went to school, I have returned once, it is not that I cross with my past very often. I once went to the alumni dinner and it was very cathartic too. As the people who had treated me worst had not reached high school, they were not there, but some memory did stir me. I am not vindictive at all, although I have had some outburst when I have lived the experience of meeting someone who treated me fatally and made me suffer and see that he is not even aware of what he did. They approach you as if nAda to tell you to look how cool you do well and I don't understand what the hell is going on. The same for him we are friends. It's funny, I don't know. The dynamics of abuse are so ingrained in society that they are taken as natural. I try not to think too much about it. And do you succeed? Yes, but I also have mental gaps with those moments. Sometimes I meet a couple of friends from high school, they talk to me about specific people and things they did to me and they remember perfectly, but I don't. And they hallucinate, it seems impossible that I do not remember someone who has made my life so impossible. Surely it is an unconscious defense mechanism, but as a mental resource it is great, I thank you for it. There is a lot of abuse to the different rooted in this society. Now, with the Vinicius case, many people seem to discover that there is racism or homophobia in Spain. You see. I went to high school in Calahorra, if I tell you what I suffered. And I remember perfectly that at the end of my institute they gave us propaganda of 'Stop immigrants'. These things have been here for a long time, what happens is that people find it more acceptable to think of them as concrete and isolated cases than as a problem at the social level. In any case, I welcome this move. If the thing remains in that they stop four in a stand in Valencia then, look, four less.

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