Iñako Díaz-Guerra
Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-9:30 p.m.
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God has come down to see Julián
López
(El Provencio, 1978). Or rather, he has downloaded
'Methuselah'
. His new film, in which he plays a middle-aged rapper, is now hitting theaters and has solved his biggest current concern: going to the final of the Copa del Rey that his
Athletic team
plays next Saturday.
"There was no way to get a ticket and it turns out that they asked me to go to the countryside to promote the movie during the break. They hadn't finished telling me about the proposal and I had already accepted. As the days get closer I'm starting to panic, I don't want to hear talk about the Gabarra. The other day I had a dream in which Mallorca was winning, we tied at the end and I woke up in extra time without knowing how it ended. That makes me restless, I don't want to suffer anymore," he explains before returning to that comedy in which he does things he never imagined.
Rapping at 45 years old. You didn't see this coming. Not at all. And I saw it even less when I had a party with the Violadores del Verso in Zaragoza many years ago, because rappers have always been big fans of
chanantes
. It was something that caught our attention, we always wondered why these people who, in principle, didn't have much to do with us, liked us so much. At that time there were some very absurd data that we never knew the cause of. For example, we went to Asturias and we were the Beatles, but in Andalusia we didn't work well. The fact is that the rappers were chanantes and when we performed in Zaragoza, many times they came to see us, we went out to party and now, so many years later, I have reconnected with them, even with a cameo by Kase.O in the movie. Life... That's why acting is good, because it allows you to do things that you never thought you would experience.
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More than 20 years have passed and I still see
chanantes
all over. You have placed yourself wonderfully. I love getting placed, because it is how our parents spoke when they worried about the future: "Let's see if you get placed in a good company and that's it...". Well, yes, we have gotten high. Not in vain, in 'Methuselah' there are three of us: Carlos [Areces], Raúl [Cimas] and me. The three of us hadn't worked together since 'Retorno a Lilifor'. Within all of us being friends and having common interests, each of us was drawn to one universe more than another, to Ernesto [Sevilla] or Raúl more comedy, to Joaquín [Reyes] more writing and directing... but we are all still there. It's a miracle, we didn't see it coming either. We started with the idea of "let's see what happens and then we'll get to work seriously." And look...You just wanted to have a laugh, but you had a tremendous cultural impact on your generation that still lasts. Does it impress you? It's true. If I'm honest, it impresses me, it gives me a lot of joy and I don't think about it except when others remind me of it. My friends often tell me: "Look at this ad, look at this skit, look at this phrase, your influence is obvious." And then I notice and you say: "Well, it's true, I'll have to agree with you." In the end, foolishly, we figured it out. If you had had to guess where you would shoot, would you have said the performance? Yes. In those beginnings, when we had been in 'La hora chanante' for several years and, above all, after the leap that 'Muchachada Nui' represented, which was moving to Spanish Television with more media, more work, more meetings, more thinking... .I began to see that this is what was pulling at me. I can tell you exactly when it became clear to me. At a party in a club, I was chatting with Joaquín and he told me: "Man, I see that you're getting more and more interested in the characters." And I agreed with him: "Yes, yes, what I want most in the program is to have a character and see how I build him, how he would walk, how he would laugh...". They were characters that lasted very little in the sketches, but I had that desire and I think that night he detected it, I detected it and the rest detected it: "Being an actor is what attracts me the most." Which doesn't mean that I saw options, because then I never thought that they would call me for a film. And here you are, a movie star. Imagine the 'Girls' that we would have done with these budgets... Seeing myself here surprises me and Above all, I appreciate it. It has happened naturally and progressively, which I also like. 'La hora chanante', 'Muchachada', first participations in series, little by little bigger roles in films... It was a process and not an instant boom like those that occur so much now with platforms and successful series. In my case, the pieces have been falling into place, there have been peaks and valleys and all of this has allowed me to take it naturally. Now, when you get to the point where you can headline movie posters, you think:"Holy shit, what the hell happened here?" You're in the marquee in front of you. Now, now. It still seems super strange to me, don't believe it. In December, with 'Eight Moroccan Surnames', they put up a huge canvas of the film in the plaza of the Dominican Republic. Those days I had my parents and my sisters visiting my house and I confess that we went there with the car and I made the roundabout several times while my sister recorded a video. It was such a large canvas with my face on it that it seemed surreal to us. You never get used to those things. We started by talking about how in the movie you sing and you have to remember that you, by training, are a musician. Yes, I play the horn, the thing is that this is different. Both my training and almost everything I play is classical music, from there to starting to rap goes a long way...What will your teachers at the Conservatory think? I have a very good relationship with some of them and they will surely say: "But this idiot, what does?" [laughs]. In the last films my characters have had a musical component: this one, in 'Operación Camarón' in 'Eight Moroccan Surnames' I had some dancing, in the next one that I will release, the character is also a musician... In the end I am unifying the two worlds. In 'Methuselah' I was very nervous about this issue because it was necessary that the character not be disguised nor be a guy who makes him regular. I was obsessed with real rappers being like, “Okay, this guy raps.” He told David [Galán Galindo, director of the film]: "This guy has to dress like a motherfucker, have style and rap well, then he'll have his nonsense, but he'll be a real rapper." Both David himself, who is a rapper, and Quiroga and Haze helped me a lot. We went to his studio, we did some tests there and they gave me their blessing because he was shit. In the end, rhythm, melody, silences... You have musicality.In 'Operación Camarón' in 'Eight Moroccan Surnames' I had some dancing, in the next one that I will release, the character is also a musician... In the end I am unifying the two worlds. In 'Methuselah' he was very nervous about this issue because it was necessary that the character not be disguised nor be a guy who makes him regular. He was obsessed with real rappers saying, "Okay, this guy raps." He told David [Galán Galindo, director of the film]: "This guy has to dress like a motherfucker, have style and rap well, then he'll have his nonsense, but he'll be a real rapper." Both David himself, who is a rapper, and Quiroga and Haze helped me a lot. We went to his studio, we did some tests there and they gave me their blessing because he was shit. In the end, rhythm, melody, silences... You have musicality.In 'Operación Camarón' in 'Eight Moroccan Surnames' I had some dancing, in the next one that I will release, the character is also a musician... In the end I am unifying the two worlds. In 'Methuselah' he was very nervous about this issue because it was necessary that the character not be disguised nor be a guy who makes him regular. He was obsessed with real rappers saying, "Okay, this guy raps." He told David [Galán Galindo, director of the film]: "This guy has to dress like a motherfucker, have style and rap well, then he'll have his nonsense, but he'll be a real rapper." Both David himself, who is a rapper, and Quiroga and Haze helped me a lot. We went to his studio, we did some tests there and they gave me their blessing because he was shit. In the end, rhythm, melody, silences... You have musicality.
López, making friends.JAVI MARTINEZ
Your character is a textbook Peter Pan, something very common in our generation of forty-somethings, on the other hand. Yes, and I defend it. I consider myself Peterpanesque, but I see that the term is a bit maligned and I don't know why. You can resist getting older and be mature in the things you need to be. It is not incompatible. I like to do things when I am young because I look good physically, because I love life, I love meeting people, reading, writing, playing soccer, watching movies, going out... I love all of that and I hope it lasts, at least I'm going to do it. everything possible. There are people to whom this seems childish, but it is not. If this is the leisure we like, why not do it all our lives? I think that battle is won. When I go out at night, I have the feeling that there are more people of 40 than of 20. Yes, our way of seeing life has been established, although there are still Asterix villages out there where they would look at us badly. They would say, "Why don't these immature people go home and grow up?" And you have to answer them: "I'm not going to leave, we have chosen this life, we can afford it and that's it. That's how I am, leave people alone, stop telling us what we have to do and giving labels." We do no harm to anyone by wanting to remain young! How do you assess the permanent shadow of abuse over the world of cinema? It is very sad, very unpleasant and I am glad that you asked me because I listened to Estíbaliz Urresola, director of '20,000 species' of bees', that about this topic that is asked especially to women and she would like to know more about the opinions of men. I defend that those who do this do not represent us men and they must be pursued to the last consequences. Luckily, I have been surrounded by women since I was born, I have three sisters, a wonderful mother, an excellent relationship with my grandmothers, now I have two nieces... They are all women and I have a very developed feminine side. All these things should never have existed, they do not fit in my head and I cannot conceive them, seeing a woman as a being equal to me is not something that I consider because it is natural, it cannot be any other way. Therefore, all these cases make me sick and leave us very bad. It seems that they define the man and I think that is not the case. They do not define us all, but it is not anecdotal. That is the problem and what men have failed in: when you know that something is not right, you see it around you and Instead of reporting it, you move away a little and look the other way. For a long time, men have done that with sexist attitudes, we have normalized things that are objectively wrong. For some time now, I notice that we are reacting and beginning to act. I have done it in certain circles where I have not liked attitudes towards women: "I don't like this, stop doing it and I'll leave here because I don't want to be with you."I firmly believe that we must denounce everything we see so that sexists are isolated and cease to exist. You are an eminently serious guy. I have time for everything, but I clown so much in my professional life that it ends up tiring. It's a little bit like that idea of the sad clown, it happens to many of our colleagues. In the field of fiction, I am delighted to always be joking, but with my family and friends I don't always feel like laughing. Life is not just joy and I have listened to a lot of opera, there is a lot of tragedy there [laughs]... So many times I get tragic because I see beauty in it, but, of course, explain this to someone who knows you like Vicentín or Juancalitros. Expectation has to be a pain. I often say things seriously and they take me for granted. "Hey, can you please get out of there, I have to move the car?" "Hahahaha, how horny!" "No, damn it's a real emergency situation, please." "I'm leaving." And so. That is a sentence.