He publishes his 'Memories before I forget' and reviews with LOC all his artistic career
Concerns grow around Andrés Pajares
In 2015, a tweet announced the death of Andrés Pajares (79) and from time to time there appear more alarmist than authentic news about his health, but the Pajares that receives us in the living room of his house, a duplex near the Paseo de la Castellana Apart from a row of nails that cross his spine from top to bottom, he looks very good and keeps his sense of humor intact. We talked with him about My memories before I forget , the ingenious title of his new book, which he publishes these days Almuzara. "I would like this headline for the interview," Andrés Pajares begins the conversation: " I am a broad-spectrum comedian, " (like antibiotics, he adds). Because his book focuses on the 60-year career of a young man from Madrid who always wanted to sing and act wherever he was, an only child of a father, a waiter with 14 hours a day of intensive work and a working mother and devoted to the family. In the living room there are many pictures of those parents that he adored and when he names them they want to cry.
His book reviews his entire professional career, shared with greats such as Antonio Machín, Manolo Escobar, Rocío Jurado, Carmen Sevilla or Sara Montiel. But he doesn't say a word about his family life, sometimes complicated and displayed to the public. I wanted to make a book of my memories, but nobody thinks I'm going to tell something about my previous problems, my marriages or my sons. I don't feel like it. They've already spoken for me and talked badly. I live from my work and I wanted to talk about that. Has anything left to do? No, I've touched on everything: theater, circus, varieties. I have recorded several albums and I was even number one in Los 40 Principales, parodying All the time in the world, a song by Manolo Otero. In my beginnings, I sang in an orchestra, Serenella, formed only by women, we performed in an alternate bar that there was in the Gran Vía and in the villages. His name sounded to star in High Heels, playing a judge who practiced during the day and dressed as a woman at night. Miguel Bosé did it in the end - it was a great bitch of Mr. Pedro Almodóvar. I was in Puerto Rico watching Ay Carmela in Cinemafest, with Mario Vargas Llosa in the armchair next door, who congratulated me because they gave us a prize and offered to do in Pantaleón theater and the visitors, but I could not because I was doing Ay Señor . When I returned to the hotel, the phone rings and they tell me, I'm Pedro Almodóvar. Did you know each other? They told me that I was upset because I had competed with the Goya along with Carlos Saura, and I as an actor was in the field with Imanol Arias and Antonio Banderas. And finally Saura won, Ay Carmela took 13 Goyas, and I the Best Actor. I thought he proposed the paper because he had gotten angry. And I told him that it was a pleasure talking to him. And in the end, you were angry. We stayed in Madrid two days later, we toasted champagne in my house and when I said goodbye I told him that we had to talk about the economic issue. He sent me to Esther, his right hand in the production company. And the agreement was broken because of the money. No, I simply asked for something more than what I had been paid in Ay, Carmela, for something there were the Goya or the prize for best actor in Montreal, competing no less than with Mastroianni, Tornatore and De Vito. And they rejected his claims. Much worse, I left that office waiting for the answer but they never told me anything. Not a call, not from them, from someone. It was never known again. Do you think they had not discovered him as a great actor until Ay Carmela? There was a before and after the Saura movie. They came to compare him with Alberto Sordi or Jack Lemmon. But there was nothing salvageable in that uncovered cinema he did with Fernando Esteso? The least thing in those films was sex. They were laughs. But the uncover has not been invented by me or Mariano Ozores. They had done it before Landa or Sacristán.In those films the role played by women of women was unfortunate.Now it would be unimaginable, they would call us everything.There was a fierce censorship, but you played a transvestite role in Spanish Television and Franco alive. Yes, Artur Kaps, the director, did not believe it and had some fear, but nothing happened. I parodied a very famous radio lady, Elena Francis. Pajares always had a pen. He played many gay roles and dressed as a woman before anyone else. But I assure you that there is no doubt about my sexuality, I am a good actor. But I also tell you that I wouldn't have minded being gay. You already have another headline. To me, gays had to make me a monument. I made a series, Uncle Willy, of a homosexual, with the PP in government and on TVE. And also a musical, The Cage of the Mad. Now that you talk so much about harassment, did you live it up close? No, and it's weird. I have not seen abuse. Moreover, to me in a shoot with a magnificent actress who is still there, I had a stumble shooting an erotic scene. Anyway, the underpants bulged and I apologized. And she is a sweetheart, she told me, don't worry. He invited me to eat home. I went, and then it happened. Do you think some radical feminists are passed? Yesterday Carmen Maura said on television, now you have to be careful with any word that is said to a woman, self-censorship is sad. And what bothers me the most, if what the complainants are saying is true, is that they speak 30 years after it happened and without trial or sentence from a court, but in the end, humor and humorists are also being censored a lot. . Should we put limits on Willy Toledo? The hell is that Willy Toledo is a good actor. I don't know how life has been complicated by nonsense. In general, more than limits, what should be common sense. And already put, it would be necessary to censor the Monty Pytons who made religious parodies of Christianity in Brian's life and have never been burned alive. Here with us is Juani, the person with whom he shares his life for a few years. Tell me about her. I have played the lottery with this woman. We understand each other very well, you understand me. She takes great care of me and I must take care of her. What happens is that he is very young and does not deserve this back that I have and this broken column. She is a great woman, she helps me a lot and she has learned with me everything that is this world of cinema and theater. Learn everything, even fix a tap or when the light breaks down Do you plan to get married? It is possible, but it will not appear in the newspapers. When we have done it, I will tell you.According to the criteria of
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