Carles Sans: "Madrid is in a very effervescent moment, with a lot of life ... and I don't see that right now in Barcelona"

Carles Sans.

Badalona, ​​1955. Tricicle's handsome man (I'm not saying it, the show's promotion says so) makes his solo debut with

, where he reviews the best anecdotes of the 40 years of the recently dissolved company.

It's a lifelong joke to define us. When people didn't know our real names, they always differentiated us like this: the chubby, the bald, and then there was the handsome one, which luckily was me. In the show I boast that, in addition to staying with the label of handsome, with me they did not use the diminutive as with Joan (Gràcia) and Paco (Mir). He was not the handsome one, he was the handsome one, who gives more consistency (laughs).

Exactly. I am finally alone and I can finally speak. Now that Tricicle has decided to park, I had to ask myself what I wanted to do. I don't see myself as retired yet, because I really like acting, and I thought the best thing would be to do a show talking, because what was not acceptable or decent was to do the same as Tricicle, but one by one. Tricicle is irreplaceable, unrepeatable and its legacy is already there. When we left it, I often remembered, because with Tricicle we have lived thousands of incredible anecdotes, all real although some may seem impossible, and someone said to me one day: "Do you realize what people laugh at? when you tell what you lived? Why don't you make a show of that? " I went around it and in the end ...

It is a hilarious anecdote of what has been lived over these 40 years.

Yes, yes, don't think I haven't thought about it. It is much easier to screw up in these times when you have to measure each topic and each word so much. But, well, they are occupational hazards, my only concern is the same as always: making people laugh. Comedy actors suffer a lot even if it doesn't seem like it. Because humor demands making people laugh and every laugh that is not what you expected hurts the soul.

Yes the truth, because it has been much more than half of my life acting with two friends always by my side. A luxury and in this show you can perfectly recognize the Tricicle label. It is a label that I have no interest in removing. They have been 40 years living a wonderful life, of success, of fun ... I do not renounce the Ticicle brand, on the contrary, I use it because I am part of it.

(Laughs) That's right, the truth is that it was a very successful turn in my life. Studying Law was almost a family imposition, because I wanted to be a journalist, actually ...

You say that, eh, but I'm not complaining. The fact is that in college I realized that this was not my thing. I had always had certain artistic concerns, but I could never imagine that I could become a professional actor. Until I was getting to know the world, getting into it and it has been a wonder to be able to make a living from this profession that, although it has many obstacles and heavy moments, is fantastic. I can not complain about anything.

I met Joan at a body language school. He was working in a bank and I had just come from the military and was studying. It was that moment when you really don't know what to do with your life. Together we began to get to know that fantastic world of creativity and theater companies and we began to take our first steps. Little by little he was catching us more and more. Then later we called Paco in case he wanted to join us, we became students of the Theater Institute, which would be the School of Dramatic Art of Catalonia, and from then on everything was quite filmed.

That changed our lives. One fine day we arrived in Madrid, three kids with an incipient show in an alternative venue, and there Chicho Ibáñez Serrador will see us who, right off the bat, proposes us to go out in

. Of course, we said no (laughs). How three guys from alternative theater were we going to agree to go to a commercial show! But he was so persuasive and so insistent that we went and there was a brutal national explosion.

He told us a devastating phrase: "How many people come to see you at this theater? About 20 people, which is a very sad thing. 22 million will see you on the program." And, of course, just before those numbers we were doing the asshole (laughs). But even so, a part of the theater sector, especially here in Catalonia, has already put the cross on us for life. We were no longer theater people, we were something commercial and sold. And for many, many years we were seen that way, although it has been softening over time.

Not a second. It was brutal. The day after the program was broadcast, they were already pointing us down the street, a municipal guard began to dance

in front of us, at the airport people asked us for autographs. It was absolutely a movie thing, in 24 hours everything had changed and we were celebrities.

We enjoyed it very much. Before recording, we had all the fear in the world, but since it turned out well and liked it a lot, it launched the rest of our career because, hell, we were good. When then people started going to the theater to see live those guys they had seen on television, instead of disappointing, they found a show that excited them. It helped us a lot because it allowed us to show our talents to a vastly wider audience.

Yes, yes, during the 80s and 90s. That conjunction has its zenith when we participate in the closing ceremony of the 1992 Games. They were very scared, because they had never bet on humor and the IOC was nervous. We would walk around the stadium like athletes escaping from a group that was chasing us, and when we passed in front of the box we would do a kind of medieval bow to the King. That worried them a lot, in case he took it badly. It was like in medieval movies, it wasn't until they saw the King lose heart that everyone else started laughing. It was a magnificent time, for Tricicle and for Barcelona .. Although we have been filling up until the last day before the pandemic, the city already ....

Barcelona has changed, unfortunately. There is a certain downturn, a feeling of discouragement that has spread throughout the city, that all the people of Barcelona are telling us. It reminds me a little of the end of Madrid de la Movida, where the brightness was already fading and the syringes were more visible and all that darker that was sung in

In a different style, I do see that Barcelona has lost the spark that so characterized a city of very creative, very European and very modern people. Today the city looks sad.

There has been a bit of everything. That has had an influence, but also this drop in tourism due to the pandemic. That in such an open city is very noticeable. Anyway, I have no doubt that it will recover, because Barcelona is a very powerful brand and a wonderful city that I very much doubt that it will end up sinking forever into this sadness. Madrid is now in a very effervescent moment, with a lot of activity, people always on the street, a lot of life ... and I don't see that right now here. Without a doubt, it is not the best moment in Barcelona.

Because they are 40 years together and it is inevitable that there will be exhaustion, because there is a desire to make more personal plans, because a day comes when you have to say that up to here. We decided that 40 round years was a very good figure to quit. It has helped me to do this

, which stimulates me a lot at this point in my professional life, it gives me a lot of movement and I feel a little like starting over.

Especially to our visit to Japan, which was like going to another planet and everything happened to us. When I saw

years later

, by Sofia Coppola, I felt like the protagonist and saw us in very similar situations.

Telling these things like this cold and without acting is a disaster, they lose their grace, let's leave it in that they licked our ears to the three of us in Japan.

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