Marta Etura San Sebastián, 1978. Actress. He returns to the skin of Amaia Salazar in Legado en los bones , second part of the Baztán Trilogy, based on the novels by Dolores Redondo. A hangover challenge: «I wonder if everything will seem little to me now».

This is a project more typical of Hollywood than of Spanish cinema: a trilogy of high budget based on some successful novels. Does it impress a little? I had never faced a project of such a large dimension, besides being the absolute protagonist. Filming two movies in a row, being six months working and going out in all the sequences ... It has been a permanent challenge, a very hard journey physically and emotionally being so long in a character that terrible things happen to him. He is a very intense and dramatic character, and that weighs. But at the same time it has been wonderful, because as an actress it is a joy to have the opportunity to tell such a complex story through the gaze of my character, Amaia Salazar. It has been a very powerful journey. The films based on 'best sellers' always face the suspicion of the fan of the books and the criticisms of the first film were regular. Did you think: "Fuck, there are two more ..." I think the first movie was not bad and made a lot of box office, but it is true that it did not have the result we wanted. I take it as we now have the opportunity to improve that and the second opportunities in the cinema are something exceptional. This is much better than the first, more powerful. As for the fans, I'm very pragmatic and thinking about what they were going to say would have been a bit stupid of me. So I have not done it. Recreating the imaginary of each individual is impossible and pretending it would have been to place in front of me an absurd mountain and impossible to climb. I focused on a very well written script and a wounded and strong character simultaneously, who chooses to be a policeman to face a traumatic past. We all chose our profession for a reason. And why did you choose to be an actress? Because I had the feeling that in a life I would not be able to do and feel everything I wanted. This profession gave me the opportunity to live many lives. I am very attracted to the behavior of the human being and through my work I can know and understand different behaviors. Those of us who dedicate ourselves to this profession tell stories with the desire to meet and recognize each other, to reflect on how we are and try to improve ourselves. The film deals with the concept of El Mal, in capital letters. What is Evil for you? Unfortunately we live with Evil, it is our legacy as human beings. We have committed all kinds of barbarities throughout history, I have seen that absolute evil in my land when I grew up. Fortunately, we are civilizing and moving away more and more from violence, although in each region with different times and rhythms. War, kidnap a woman or a child to do whatever they want with them, absolute evil is there every day. We all have our dark side and we should not reject it, but embrace and control it. But Evil is something else, it is the total absence of empathy, which is what can take us away from violence and terror. Art and culture are fundamental to this because they generate empathy. If you look, the most violent societies are those that do not enhance the culture and the own criteria, but that promote mass, viscera and the reptilian brain.When you say that the regions are moving away from violence at different rates, do you think in the Basque Country where you grew up and the current Catalonia? Yes. They are different situations, but with an equal basis. In my teens, ETA killed someone every 15 days. I have experienced deaths, kidnappings ... Fortunately, in that sense the situations are different because in Catalonia there is no terrorist group, but I do find something very negative in common: at the moment when the independence part of the citizenship in me or against me, it is a conflict without a guaranteed solution and a task for the society of Catalonia and for all Spaniards. Because the different thoughts we have to live together and what we need to promote is tolerance and respect. This parallels what happened in the Basque Country. The society was split, faced, forgot coexistence and nobody trusted each other. Is that cured? I don't know. If it does, it takes a lot. They are generations and generations living in conflict. I wonder now what I was wondering then: what do they gain by being independent? That is the question that they have to ask themselves and it seems to me that in this environment nobody is asked. In the twentieth century we lived a lot of nationalisms that brought nothing good, just conflict. A country like Spain, where so many landscapes coexist, should be able to make ideologies coexist and what happened in my land does not happen again. An atmosphere was created that Spain was our enemy. And no, it is not. Why? You have been very blunt in your rejection of Arnaldo Otegi and the tributes to terrorists. Whenever I talk about this I get into a garden, but I have a very clear stance. That a person who has been part of a terrorist group, who has killed and kidnapped, comes to public office, does not seem to normalize things at all. On the contrary: it is not normal. Of course I am in favor of living together and respecting all ideologies, but they did not respect anything. They killed and there is no ideology or religion that justifies the murder and kidnapping. Kidnapping always goes unnoticed when we talk about this issue, but it seems to me the most terrifying things that can be done to a human being and in the Basque Country it was constantly happening. Obviously you have to turn the page and move on, but to generate a society of respect in my land we need young generations to know that if you take a weapon, you will not have a happy ending. If what we tell young people is that you can take a gun today and hold a position tomorrow ... Bad. In 2016, after having repeated elections and failed again the first investiture, you defended that Rajoy should be allowed to govern and He made a mess. We were in an identical situation to the current one and today I also think that Sanchez should be allowed to govern. Both then and now it seems unfortunate that we can go to a third election because politicians do not fulfill their obligation that is to agree ... I am already talking about politics and then my parents scold me, because I ended up seeing myself reflected on one side or another without wanting to. Look, what I said is something of common sense: to govern the most voted list. The PP then and the PSOE now. If they are not able to agree, which is a shame, we only have the numbers left. But I am not one or the other, honestly my position is that you have to vote depending on the needs of the country at all times. And what a country clearly needs is a government. Does it look bad in the world of cinema who is positioned on the right? There is a lot of overlap with that, but I do not want to position myself politically. He said he supported Rajoy and not at all. I am 41 years old, my beliefs and my opinion, but I do not like being pigeonholed in the political battle between the media. It has been going on since I was a baby. When José María Aldaya was kidnapped, I was a teenager and went to a demonstration to ask for the release of a person who was kidnapped for being an entrepreneur, like my father, and the only thing he had done all his life was to work and generate wealth to his country. But since he did not pay the revolutionary tax, he was put in the zulo. As a citizen without political ties, I positioned myself against that and, the next day, I found myself labeled in media such as "the youth of the PP". I have not been from any party, I was only a citizen of a region with a huge conflict and extreme violence that positioned itself in favor of peace and respect. Something that these people did not know. It was either you think like me or I kill you, or you pay the revolutionary tax or you kidnap. Positioning against them does not make me right. How do you remember those years as the daughter of a threatened businessman? It was terrible, terrible. A permanent fear Many people now go over that and I feel very sorry. They don't know what it was. Let's go back to the movies. After starring in such a blockbuster, is there a certain emptiness, a little fear of having hit the ceiling? The truth is that I thought about it. After making three movies where I have been fortunate to tell everything through the look of my character, I wonder if now everything that comes will seem little. But the actress is a very peculiar work in that sense, because each project and each character are a new world and experience. As I am passionate about my work, I face them with great enthusiasm even if they are small, so I will continue to be happy. I see that it was worth that jump to the void you gave as a child. Be an actress I wanted to be, it was my dream, I reached it, but I didn't know what it meant. Now I look back and I would love to talk to that girl and tell her what this all entails. I would do the same again, but knowingly. Did you read the books before getting the paper? No, but I have a story with them. My parents are great readers and my mother read the first of the trilogy when she left. As he knows that I am always looking for female roles, because they do not abound and you have to create them, he called me to tell me that he had read a book with a character that I had to do as I was. I started to investigate and I saw that the rights were of a German producer who also had those of Millennium , so I took it for granted thinking that it would be an American blockbuster. But, at the same time, Fernando González Molina, the director, was reading the books and fighting to make the film. I didn't know anything and suddenly my agent called me to tell me that they wanted to do a test for the Trilogy. When I called my mother, she was crazy and happy. Are you worried about the shortage of papers for women over 40? My age is a complicated age and it is a task that does not happen to men. That makes a lot of anger. The characters of my age are made by girls of 28 years, 32 at the most, but you see Brad Pitt with 55 making a forties without problem. Seeing a character of my age played by an actress ten years younger gives rage, because right now with 40 I am much more wonderful than before. In every way, intellectually and physically. We have that misfortune, but to try to be optimistic I think of my grandmother, who needed my grandfather's signature to travel or have a checking account. And that was before yesterday. Now there are women who write, produce and direct. We are not on par with men, because there is a huge inequality of many years, but fortunately we have entered these circles and we will go further. The feminine look will be more present in society and so the cinema, which is a reflection of life, will be more fair. You have never been directed by a woman ... In cinema, no. But it will arrive, we have no doubt. We have already opened the door of those professions that used to be only men. I am convinced that in the generation of my daughter this will be a problem that is not even talked about.

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