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Blanca Romero (Gijón, 1976)
is the closest thing to a tornado that recent cinema (and some Asturian cinema) has been capable of. And, as such, she exercises. She sweeps the screen in the role of a stubborn and thorough nun in
The Abbess
, by Antonio Chavarrías
, and sweeps away every one of her statements. Since her appearance in
After
, by Alberto Rodríguez, back in 2009, this actress as well as a model has given herself just enough. He controls every second of her career, she says, to the point of boasting that he stopped her for an entire decade to take care of her children. The film she now presents is officially her comeback and she is it with all the consequences. "I don't think they can forget about me easily," she says. And she shakes the world.
What is this about returning? I set a time limit: a decade to take care of my son. At ten years old, a child can already begin to be more independent. Things come when they have to come. Were you afraid that they had forgotten Blanca Romero? Not at all. Some are born doctors, others are ETA members and others are born actors. When you are born an artist, you know that you have to tell something, share something and be generous with people. My mission is to give a point of light to society and I take it as a responsibility. It could be something else and not expose myself as much, but this doesn't work like that. Being an artist to impress is worthless. I'm here to inspire others. Don't you suffer waiting for the phone to ring like many of her colleagues? Living with pressure is not living. You have to know how to enjoy the moments in which you stop because they are essential for your development as a person, to heal yourself, to remove toxins, to recover; You stop to grow, to live, to have something to transmit. If you live thinking only about working, what do you have to offer? They tell me: «How about Blanca? You do not work?". "No, you already work for me," I reply. There is one life and you have to know how to live it and suffer it. Have you noticed any changes in the industry you left? I have my place intact and I feel completely renewed. They love me the same. I am ready to return. It would be selfish if I offered myself to the public empty-handed. You have to have a speech and I have it again. I am a very strong woman, but it is very easy to get knocked down. I am hypersensitive. I need many moments of absence to return healthy. If not, what do you offer? Just a pretty face? Does she consider herself a nostalgic person? How do you remember that first explosive moment with
After
? The best thing that could have happened to me then is that Alberto Rodríguez didn't know anything about me. I didn't know she had been married to anyone or had kids or anything. And that was a great opportunity to be able to be myself without labels and misgivings. I am a woman of character and I can be very easy to work with or impossible if there is something that doesn't fit me. And that's me. How much do those labels you talk about weigh on you? Do they still weigh? Yes, of course. They still ask me about my marriage and my in-laws at the time [she was married to the bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez]. It is a family that I respect, appreciate and have a lot of affection for. They often ask me if I will never talk about them and, in truth, there is nothing to tell. It's all said. We were a couple that fell in love, fell out of love and broke up like any other. I assume that it is part of my biography and I cannot nor do I want to delete it. All that brought me another world and I knew how to emerge victorious...
Some are born doctors, others are ETA members and others are born actors.
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Was it a war perhaps? I felt it like harassment and demolition. There was a moment when I had the impression of being on a set dressed as a clown and they were falling on me from all sides. I never defended myself, I never opened my mouth, but I think I did get the respect of the media. Silence spoke for me and I won. What does it share with her character in the film, Elisa, a cloistered nun not of her own free will? This character has marked my personal life in a very particular way. I had been mutilated for 10 years, I self-mutilated. I stopped being a woman, I stopped being an actress, I stopped being a friend... I stopped being everything and I became just a mother. I had to take charge of 50% that did not belong to me because there was no father. It was very hard and very difficult. They condemn Eloisa to be there and within that she tries to be happy... Let's say that she had it very hard. Her family and her parents mutilate her. That's how life came to me, I had to face it and I had to do it alone. How do you see the current moment in Spanish cinema with the emergence of women in all areas? I have always been a woman ahead of my time. I love evolution. I am zero nostalgic. The world is different from when I went into seclusion to now. But I love it. It's strange that no one sees me complain. What I feel is that the industry has not yet gotten my point, but partly it is because I have not wanted to give it to them. Now that I'm 50 years old I do feel like it. The roles of my life are yet to come.
I had been mutilated for 10 years, I self-mutilated. I stopped being a woman, I stopped being an actress, I stopped being a friend... I stopped being everything and I became just a mother.
What is that role? How do you imagine the definitive character in his career? I'm not going to stop until he ends up being scary on the street. I know I can arouse fear. Fear seems intelligent to me. I would love to play a super-intelligent psychopath and, of course, a murderer. You mentioned her age... Now is when what you have to tell is interesting. Because what do you tell first if you're lost? It's okay for men and women to age on screen. But I feel fit and I think I still have time to exploit my beauty. I'll leave the other record for later... How worried are you about that other record she talks about? How worried are you about getting older? What I am most obsessed with is continuing to feel agile. I worry when I suddenly wake up and notice something, that's when I know I have to take care of myself. She left home when she was 16... Yes and I traveled the whole world. I lived in Japan, in Mexico, in Paris, in London... In Mexico I escaped and slept on the street. But then I ended up making the covers of all the magazines there and working non-stop. The world was too small for me. It's funny because now I can be calm on a mountain enjoying it peacefully. But when I was young I couldn't. I love my family, but then I was drowning. What I retain is a character that stops at nothing. When I am clear about something, rest assured that I will do it. And when I don't want to do something I don't need a lawyer. And that's been like that since I was little. If it hadn't been for my children, I would have already traveled around the world six times. What have you learned from your children? They both admire me greatly and adore me. I am very crazy. I don't believe in schools and all that. Education is not designed to make children happy. I tell you, I admit, I am illiterate. They kicked me out of school and I didn't want to study. I have never liked teachers or authority figures other than my parents. My children are, yes, respectful and good at dying next to their mother. My priority as a mother has always been for my children to come home and feel happiness and joy. There are few homes with real joy and in my house there is peace and joy, although the figure of the father is missing. It is exhausting to care for, raise and educate a child and do it alone without financial support. But it touched me like that. I have always tried to ensure that my children are not as disasters as their mother. They have learned English since they were little and not like their mother who learned it by arguing with my son's biological father.
There was a moment in my life when I had the impression of being on a set dressed as a clown and people were falling all over me.
Would it be said that your life itself has a movie? Although it seems that a lot is known about me through Google and that, in reality nothing is known... And that is morbid, it is interesting and there is a lot behind it. Do you use Google a lot? to see what he says about Blanca Romero? Not much. Although, sometimes yes. '
Haters
'
make me horny .
I only answer those who say ugly things to me, the rest are fine, but they kind of bore me. What do you think of the first closure and then reopening of the Gijón bullring? My father was a bullfighter, he didn't become a matador for a reason. very strong fuck. He is from Huelva, Romerito from Cortegana. I have lived it since I was little and I have it deep inside. but I don't like bulls. I enjoyed bullfighting afternoons while suffering a lot and from the tension I ended up with horrible back pain. I have the utmost respect for bulls, but I am not a bullfighter. I enjoy it from the art point of view, but beyond that, no. I love animals.