Belén Cuesta. Seville, 1984. Actress. Since the Javis wrote The call thinking about her, everything is shot. The Goya has just won the best actress for The Infinite Trench and stars Until the wedding separates us , box office top-3 in Spain.

Goya to the best actress, absolute protagonist ... After so many years of work, do you already feel a star? It took me a week to get over the Goya hangover, really. Emotional hangover, I mean. I was there a few days a little freaked out, in the "bufff, what happened here?" Plan, but now life is the same, as Julio Iglesias would say. Everyone asks me what a Goya changes and nothing has changed me. I continue to work, fortunately, and my day-to-day remains the same. It is very nice that your colleagues, people you admire, recognize you a job. I keep that for a lifetime, but that's it. It's a movie classic and has been repeated with you: get to fame by making comedy and awards, for a dramatic role. Why is comedy so underestimated? It's true. Sometimes I think that, since it doesn't seem like this is going to change, it would be fair in the Goya to make a hole by rewarding dramas and comedies separately, as in the Golden Globes. The funny thing is that we give the prizes ourselves, that we are those who then complain about how difficult it is to make comedy and how little it is valued. Although your jump to popularity came with comedic roles ('Paquita Salas', 'The call', 'Eight Catalan surnames' ... ), you say you are not funny. I am not! I don't consider myself a comedian. In fact, sometimes I have felt uncomfortable doing comedy because I need a lot of confidence to be a clown. An actor, the first thing to do is to take away the shame and make a fool of yourself as necessary for the sake of the role, but it's hard for me to do it. And after so much contemporary role, the Goya give it to you for a film set in the War Civil and Franco. You know what they will say ... Yes, we only make movies about that and such. In addition, The Infinite Trench is not even about the Civil War. Anyway, it is a topic and absurdity that they always say the same and that it is dangerous, because at some point they will stop telling very interesting stories. To those who say that, I would say that they are taking away the opportunity to learn a lot of history, that it would not hurt them. Let's talk about more recent history: how did Belén Cuesta decide to be an actress? It was a vocation, but without really understanding what was happening. I went on stage for a play by the school, nobody paid attention to what we were doing, but I remember thinking: "It's cool to be up here." In fact, the theater has been your natural habitat for many years. Yes, I've done a lot and still passionate me. What happens is that we don't value it here as it deserves. In other countries the prestige is absolutely in the theater and so it should be. We would have to take care of it much more. I've been in New York watching Ed Harris and Ben Whishaw perform and that's ... It's like going to see the group you like most live. I do not know, the truth is that, although I do not understand, there are many people who do not call. Even many of my classmates, who don't want to do theater. The same is for the money, because the theater in this country you do for the love of art. Success caught you working as a waitress in Chueca. Did you think about giving up? Yes, more than once. Send everything to Cuenca and return to Malaga, home, to continue doing theater while I combined it with another job. It is that that first stage in Madrid was very difficult for me. I worked as a waitress in a thousand places, as a cashier at the Fnac, handing out flyers , I have given private lessons ... Everything. Your partner in that last bar was another waiter named Javier Ambrossi. The subject is a bit of a film. I had met the Javis doing a play in La casa de la portera , in the Madrid off scene. And then I worked with Javi Ambrossi as waiters and one day he told me that he was going to write me a paper to get out of there. And he fulfilled, because he wrote The call and that's where it all began. Although, at first, the call was also scene off . Rather, we were indie , which at that time still said indie . And suddenly, life changes. A little while ago, five years ago, but they have looked like many more. At least you have not been labeled as 'Javis girls', in plan that so chaste of 'Almodóvar girls'. It's true, but there are, but there are: Anna ( Castillo), Macarena (García), I ... Our careers changed following the call , and theirs as well. We are a lucky group. Because the luck is that someone trusts you and we trust each other when nobody else did. In the end, life consists in expecting nothing. In advance and see what happens. And sometimes good things happen.Your character in 'Until the wedding separates us' is a traditionally masculine role: the person who flees the engagement, who looks for one night rolls, etc. The story is changing, huh? Fortunately. The romantic comedy of clichés, sweet, cheesy, in which you are sold that the woman to be happy needs to have a husband, stability and children, has become old. The industry has had to make an effort to understand how women are now in relation to love and sex, which is very different from what was being shown on the screen. Love is very beautiful, but love is also cruel and selfish and complex. The current romantic comedy have to show all that, it has to be real. Do you notice that change in the scripts that come to you? Yes, yes, yes. Very clear It is logical because there is an evolution, even if I am late. For example, women have always been treated as if we don't like sex or we like them less. It was time for men to realize that of course we like it. Humor has been very important for this, because comics like Kristen Wiig or Tina Fey have been able to laugh at them. Now we have also seen it in the Leticia Dolera series and Fleabag : this is what we women think, this is what we want from sex, of course we like it and of course we speak it openly. There are still uncles who are bothered by this, but they better get used to it because they are going to pass it regularly if not ... I'll sign it up. You should, because that's what it is.

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