Cinema Carmina Barrios, the selfless and eccentric mother who has turned her iron discipline into humor
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In another life,
Josefina del Carmen Barrios
would now be a retired lady, with her life made and her children raised and far from home, carefree and happy with her free time, who would use the afternoons to meet her friends for lunch and a game of dominoes, and that he would go to the pool and the market in the morning.
However,
fate tends to prepare unexpected forks
if one of your children is called Paco León and decides, at a given moment, to make an
independent, domestic
film with a ridiculous budget with you as the protagonist.
Carmina Barrios
was nobody until 2012
, except in the Triana neighborhood, where she is the queen and people get
away
of laughing with his occurrences, and suddenly he became a
sudden celebrity
because he had the main role in
Carmina o burst
(2012), a film about
his life, his rudeness and his troubles
.
These kinds of
creative exercises, so typical of the postmodern era
- in which it is not the parents who give their children opportunities, such as John Huston with Anjelica, or Francis Ford Coppola with Sofia, but the children who use their parents as pets for your projects - usually have a
strong and fast impact
, and are soon forgotten or diluted.
For example,
Julita Salmerón
had her
year of glory
after the release of
Many children, a monkey and a castle
(2017), but now she is back to her things, and she is not on TV all day.
But
that is different with Carmina Barrios
, who may be eating pipes in her home portal commenting on the weather, has had a YouTuber stage, is regularly interviewed in mental relaxation programs, has an
agenda as an actress
with a portfolio of Quite remarkable commitments and,
incidentally
,
full-time
celebrity
.
Carmina Barrios is topical again, not because she has made another eschatological confession of hers - it is what one would say "a language woman" - but because she has signed up as
a special guest of the second season of Road Trip
, the program that
Nuria Roca
has on the digital channel TNT.
The idea, inspired by the fact that that English BBC series starring Steve Coogan (
The Trip
, has been going on for 10 seasons), and which has had so many replications in recent years (
Travels with my father,
for example, on Netflix), consists of that
Nuria Roca is going on a trip through the sites in a motorhome
and is accompanied by someone eccentric who gives humorous play.
This time, his partner is
Esty Quesada
, the YouTuber of emo anguish, and at the same time Carmina joins.
André Breton would have liked the mix.
Carmina Barrios was born in Seville in 1953 - soon, therefore, she will be 70 years old - and not even in her wildest dreams would she have imagined
a third age as lively
as the one she has had.
As he has explained in several interviews,
his father
- who was a righteous military man, Catholic and from the regime -
wanted him to be a nun
and ordered him to go to mass every day.
But the girl, who already had a rotund figure at that time, came out contested, wild or, as she would say, "porculera", and she preferred to wear out the streets of Triana than the altars.
And on one of those party afternoons, she met
Antonio León, a young innkeeper with whom they became boyfriends
, and until today.
They are more than 50 years of faithful relationship, of the old ones, for a lifetime, and with three children:
Alejandro León,
who is not famous, but a military man,
Paco León
, who is famous for a while, as well as an actor and director , and
María León, as famous or more than brother Paco.
His
young years were dedicated to raising
, taking care of the house, what in times was called "his work."
They were troubled times, as he has explained on more than one occasion, in one of those interviews of hers full of grotesque anecdotes, old lexicon and quite a few foul twists.
There is no one in Triana who does not know her
or has not spoken with her for hours, and that self-confidence multiplies between the walls of her house, sometimes until it suddenly happens.
Once,
he confessed to Bertín Osborne
, grabbed his daughter María by the head and
plunged her into the toilet bowl,
as if he were a military command in Iraq interrogating an ISIS suspect.
Apparently,
the girl left answering
because she did not like the arrangement of the hairstyle that was being done, and
her mother replied that how disgusting as a child;
she didn't flinch, she told him she wouldn't have given birth then, and then there was that watery family vignette in the toilet more typical of a Scorsese scene.
Despite the unusualness of the reaction - today someone would report it on Twitter and social services would come -
her three children adore her
, and as a result of that singularity of character and unusual domestic habits, the
Carmina o burst
project was born
.
Paco León saw that his mother was gold,
that she had a story that could be taken to a home theater, never better said, and
that independent film became a blockbuster
.
Then came the continuation,
Carmina y amen
(2013), where María León also had a role, with a more fictional script than taken from real anecdotes.
The thing could have stayed there, but Carmina's demand skyrocketed.
And she, who likes the exhibition and the figure, signed up for a bombing.
Between 2016 and 2019, the YouTube channel CarminaTube was active
, in which 60 videos were posted, and which was like a diary of their affiliations and their anecdotes, with pieces like
Me tiño de rosa
,
Carmina plays Resident Evil 7
,
Tutorial de Frozen
or a
dissertation on whether Pope Francis regularly does belly-up
or not, in addition to activating various
challenges "
among his followers and recording some
unboxings
. The channel worked well at first -the first pieces accumulate up to 200,000 reproductions-, and in 2019 it had an average of 30,000 views per video. Beyond that, he
has had several supporting roles in the cinema
, in addition to a main one -
The Silence of the Swamp
, directed by Marc Vigil, also the main director of the series
The Ministry of Time
-, as well as cameos in soap operas or
reality shows,
and a strong presence in the media, where it fits very well because it says atrocious things that entertain the staff.
And there he is, at 67, giving a show.
Who would want to have a standard retired life, being able to be in the garlic of show business, without obligations or stress, just for the laughs.
Someone has to manage the bread and the circus
, and Carmina is great at both.
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