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Mercedes Mila . Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, ​​1951. Decades pass, she is still one of the most recognized journalists in Spain and nothing scares her anymore. Really, nothing: read. Since confinement, on Monday the 13th he premieres the second season of Scott and Milá , his reporting program at # 0 (Movistar +).

How are you carrying this individual Big Brother, locked up at home? Very well, very calmly. I try to live day by day and put into practice the things I have learned to manage difficult moments: patience, serenity. move as much as I can ... And above all not be distressed by what we are living or what is to come, which is very fat. You recently said that you had suffered from depression. Yes, and I'm so glad I was so honest. It was a cold decision because I remembered that, in my worst moments, I would hold on like a burning nail to anyone who spoke of being like me. What you feel in that situation is so strange and so unknown to you, that you feel less alone when listening to others. I did it because of that. And many people have told me that it helped to listen to me. It did not cost me, I am a modest person and, if I can help, I am delighted. A situation like the current one is delicate for this type of problem. Especially if we don't have tools to defend ourselves, which I didn't have before because I never thought I needed them. I am open, passionate, impatient, bossy ... how could I be depressed? It didn't go into my head, but it was. When you begin to understand how little there is to know about the brain, you begin to know the tools that help you climb that mountain. And they are the ones I am using to cope with isolation. This does not create a psychological problem for me; I am serene, empathetic ... and I notice that I am well, that this has not cut me off. That strength I take from the learning I had during my depression. Do you favor launching a program with all of Spain at home? Since I entered Movistar, I changed my way of understanding TV, because the audience is not so obsessed, so I do not care . But Fernando Jérez (director of # 0) did tell me that they are noticing a huge increase in demand for content and that makes me very happy, of course. We have four episodes ahead that are not made with the intention of going out in a pandemic, obviously, but that ended up being affected, especially the first one, yes, because you went to record in Rome when in Italy things were already serious. Was it recklessness or an accident? It was pure chance. When we arrived in Italy we realized that they had taken the coronavirus much more seriously than in Spain. At that time, there were already many more cases in Madrid than in Rome, but we were surprised to see them with such a strict attitude: mask, gloves, empty streets ... With what we knew at that time in Spain, that caught us by surprise. We were living day by day as the concern was increasing and what we did was incorporate the reality that we were living into the program that we had planned. It was a very nice job. How did you return to Spain? The idea was to return by plane, but being there, Spain closed flights from Italy. We plan to return by boat ... and they also closed. So we rented some vans, which was not easy, and we went by road to Barcelona. And as we approached Lombardy we discovered an almost lunar scenario. Upon arriving in Barcelona, ​​the sad surprise was that no one was taking the coronavirus seriously yet. The fear that we did bring from Italy had not yet arrived. So the whole team, although we came from a non-dangerous part of Italy, we decided to do a voluntary quarantine so as not to create problems and nothing has happened. We did not bring a gram of coronavirus, do you think that measures were taken here very late? Yes. That is one of the few accusations that I would make to the Government. I understand that such a drastic decision was difficult to make, but I think they should have warned the population of the danger earlier. Above all, in those places where many people gathered. There, with the Italian experience it was enough to have acted, especially the famous weekend of March 7 and 8, with the feminist demonstration, the soccer day, Vox in Vistalegre ... Yes, that March 8 marks a before and after. One thing that seems very unfair to me, and I assume all the arrows that are going to be launched at me for saying this, is to crush a Government, this one or whatever, in circumstances in which you are facing a tsunami never seen before. It is impossible not to make mistakes. It seems to me that the Sánchez government is doing well. Getting it wrong, I don't doubt it, but in headlines I would say they are being brave and doing well. What government, left or right, could have defended itself in circumstances like the ones we are experiencing? Precisely because of this, because error is inevitable in this situation, do you understand the government's resistance to recognizing that of the 8M? They knew It was dangerous because the WHO was already reporting and giving data, it is impossible that he did not know, but I think the time has not yet come to point out errors. Now they have to be working night and day on what is happening and, when this happens and we can have a beer, it will be time to analyze failures and responsibilities. I am interested in people who lean on the shoulder, not the smart ones, as it turns out, they already knew everything. What has disappeared from focus is the 'procés'. Does this resize its real importance? Beware, the process is very important for many people, but now they are setting aside the ideology to ask for help from the Spanish Army. Okay, that's normal, but it's also a demonstration that if you're small, even if you're independent, you're no better. You are not saved in a serious situation. De Torra hurts me when he insists that we receive nothing from Madrid, it reminds me of "Spain steals from us" and is deeply unfair. But what are you talking about, Don Joaquim? What is he saying? If they have received thousands of things ... Nationalism has this point that it does not miss this painful opportunity to release its proclamations. We journalists are idiots then because we buy him the phrase hook and not other things he says that he may be right about. For example, I am saddened that the prisoners of the procés , and all those in their circumstances, have not been given an opportunity to move to their homes. You will see that they are going to mess with me, I was more cute in silence (laughs) ... At the time you said that Santiago Abascal is "a great guy". How do you rate Vox's attitude in this situation? It just seems vomiting to me. Vo-mi-ti-va. What's more, it is morally unsustainable, that's how I tell you. They only survive in the language of violence and I can't understand it, because I really think better of Santiago. There must be someone who has told them that in their nests of votes these outrages are being said and they repeat them. It's immoral. Returning to the show, the first chapter is a flashback to 50 years ago, has your life gone where you thought then? Not at all. I finished school in 1968 and nobody made me appreciate what May 68 or the Vietnam War meant, I went out on the street being super innocent. I was interested in History and literature and had a reputation as a questioner, but I had no idea that journalism could touch me. It was all by chance. I ended up studying journalism because an aunt of mine with whom I corresponded told me that she wrote well and why she didn't try. Thanks to that lady I have finished here. You have spent your whole life on screen. Is it proud or overwhelming? I entered Informative in Barcelona in the year 72 and I have not left that circle. Overwhelm when you are not well, because you want to die and shut yourself in your house; but if you are well, it is a beauty. Because for each one who tells you four unpleasant things on social networks, there are thousands that the only thing they give you is love. How can I not be grateful to the life I have had? Although there are times when I would like to get under a hat and disappear ... but I still can't, because they recognize my voice. The second chapter is dedicated to female sexuality. How much is left to treat it with the same naturalness as the masculine? Pufff ... very much. That episode is tremendous. If you look, I did not want to see a man in this chapter or in that of friendship. I'm tired of the nuances, this is too serious, things are going so far that there is no one who can stand them. Let's talk to women, women, period. Female sexuality is largely unknown to men and women. And we find absolute jewels. It is not that it is frowned upon that women like sex, it is that it does not enter the heads of many people. The thing about sex education talks in schools in your time ... Nothing, nothing. I blindly went out into the emotional and physical world. I groped my way forward. But it is not that they know so much now, because it is still not treated naturally. The sexual ignorance of the kids is serious and worrisome. I had a chat with Erika Lust, a director who makes porn movies focused on women, fantastic. He tells me about the sexual education he received in Sweden since they were three years old and you discover that there is another world. Another red line when talking about sex is usually age, it seems that there comes a time when he disappears from life. We went to El Hierro to chat with an English producer who did a field study on women and sex and who, through the vicissitudes of life, met who is now her partner and her love of soul. They are 84 and 82 years old and they fuck daily. For starters, every day just wake up. And to explain to us how this is done, while I am recording the interview ... they do it in front of me! And how did you react? Well, nothing, I leaned on the bed asking them questions while they were there ñaca ñaca the crawfish . I finished and left the room thinking that, look, I've been in this for years, and I still see new things. My conclusion of this program is that you have to talk, talk and talk about sex, not allow doubts to eat us, let the sun and freedom enter, which is what gives you the option of living and being happy. the feeling, that you do not care what people think of you. A little bit yes, what happens is that I do not want to seem cool enough to say it and that they call me plenty. Seeing the duration that conflicts have in today's society, it is not worth worrying or keeping quiet. Say what you want, take a deep breath and think that in 72 hours people have forgotten. Look, the only thing they haven't forgotten is Paco Umbral's "I come to talk about my book". Of the rest, even of the greatest follies I have said, they no longer remember. They have not forgotten Umbral or Cela's basin. (Laughter) Right. But while Paco Umbral made me suffer, Cela made me laugh. I did not pee by miracle on the set. Can you imagine an interviewee staring at you and, without asking you anything, tells you that he is capable of absorbing a liter of water up his ass? I think he was testing whether I was listening to him or not. So I said if I could do it right there and asked for a basin, but from behind the cameras they cut me off. It would have been historic.

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