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Silvia Alonso , Salamanca, 1989. Actress. She is one of the protagonists of The Wish List , the first strong premiere of Spanish cinema after the reopening. After succeeding on TV, he relativizes success: "People go from fascination to getting bored with you in a month."

It is a movie about the desire to live in a moment in which we have all taken up life with caution. Has the coronavirus numbed your desire? No, but we are still on wheels and luckily, because I see people who are already doing as if nothing had happened and that scares me. I really want to travel again, to go to the movies, to live ... but in a responsible way. I'm not scared to death, but little by little, yours has been the first strong premiere of Spanish cinema after the reopening and the box office data shows that people still have trouble going back to theaters. It worries you, look, if I have learned something in this time, it is that I don't know anything about what is going to happen in life; so I'm not going to worry. It is evident that cinema must be reactivated and I think it is a very good film for it. I have been in closed restaurants and bars and I have seen people so calm, so going to a cinema with your mask and your separation seats is not more dangerous. I prefer a thousand times to go to the cinema to travel by plane or by ferry, which I have had to do and they were full. I am confident that people will be encouraged. It has made me especially excited to release at the moment and be part of the revival, despite the risk involved. Have you filmed again in the post-Covid world? No, everything I had has been delayed. It's time to arm yourself with patience and wait for things to be rearranged. I am going to ask you a question that surely you have not been asked in the promotion of a movie titled 'The Wish List'. What three wishes would you make to the genius? Jo, they haven't made it to me more than a thousand times (laughs). That's how I am ... Come on, let's see. I wish I could travel for a year ... and have a job around the corner, start a business that could reconcile with my acting career and that many people would go toThe wish list to facilitate the other two. It is a film about friendship, a subject that has been dealt with infinitely many times in the cinema, but traditionally from a male perspective. It is possible, but not because of the friendship itself. Cinema has always been dominated by male protagonists. As the main roles are given to actors, then the group of friends is male, but the casting goes before the subject. That is the imbalance that matters. And does it persist? I have companions who are playing fewer and fewer characters subordinated to men and sexualized, women who have their conflicts alien to men. These characters are appearing, such as Candela Peña en Hierro , of women in situations and roles that we are not used to seeing in fiction. But in my experience, women are destined to be the one who waits, the one who does not act, the one who is to serve the plot to the man. That is the feeling that I have had. Do you still have it? I still see and read many papers that scare me: women as passive and sexualized objects. They are roles that should already be well overcome. The fact that such interesting and high-quality female characters appear, points out that, little by little, change is taking place, but there is still a lot to do. Another theme of the film is fear. Many people boast that they are not afraid of anything, but I think that if you are not afraid of anything, you are dead or stupid. Are you scared? I have a thousand phobias ... but I am moved by fear. For bad and for good. I've had to live with it all my life and I've gotten used to dealing with fear and not being blocked. That has been a very important learning in my life. For example, nonsense, I had a tremendous phobia of needles and everything medically invasive, but after a lot of therapy I can already go to the doctor as an adult. I feel like the queen of the universe: if I can get a blood test, I can do anything. You've been on several of the most popular series in this country, from Amar es para una a que se avecina, do you have the feeling of that popular success is underestimated in Spain? Yes and no. It is a strange situation. When suddenly someone suddenly appears, we love to be surprised and talk about how wonderful their arrival is, etc. But in this society there are so many stimuli and new things that the life of the products is very short: after three days we are no longer new. People get tired quickly and go from fascination to getting bored with you in a month. These races are very difficult to manage. When you are in fashion you want to take all the work that comes your way, because you know that in two years the same thing nobody calls you. But at the same time, doing that makes people bored of you and maybe that's why they stop calling you. What do I know, it is a mess and a stress. You live much of the year in Mallorca, something unusual in a profession where everything moves in Madrid and Barcelona. Are you running, precisely, from that mess and stress? As far as possible, but I still maintain a flat in Madrid because I know that what you say is true: you cannot get away from it all. But the quality of life in Mallorca, especially after this complicated time of confinement, is priceless. I need nature, I need air, I need the sea. And above all I need to detach myself a bit from the actors scene, because I am passionate about my work, but then I like to go home and have friends and conversations that have nothing to do with acting. I need to get out of that loop and living in Madrid forces you to be in there, which is fine, but it's not my thing. Madrid costs me a lot: I love it, but I have to dose it. And how did you get into that world of which you don't feel fully part? Well, I don't know very well. I was in high school in Salamanca, thinking about enrolling in History when I finished, although I had already done theater and dance. My ex from high school wanted to be an actor and he told me that because we weren't going to Madrid to try and, for those things of adolescence, I said yes. I had no faith in myself, but I started acting classes and saw that they didn't send me back home and I liked it more and more. I fell in love with being an actress when I was already an actress.

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