Hugh Silva

.

Madrid, 1977. Time passes for everyone, although not everyone feels the same way.

Who was a suspicious youthful idol, is today a calm and comfortable guy in his skin.

The second season of

Nasdrovia,

the Movistar and The Mediapro Studio series, premieres.

You have a reputation for being very tight-lipped in interviews.

I am worried?


What's up, not anymore, now I get along better, but it's true that for quite some time it was very difficult for me to talk about my life.

It was, above all, at the time of the most effervescent explosion, the beginning of fame, that craziest moment when you suddenly become fashionable and everyone wants a piece of you.

There it did give me a bit of vertigo and bad vibes, although I think that what it really was was modesty.

I was embarrassed by everything that had to do with things being known about my life, because, in addition, this fame thing has an absurd point: suddenly you find yourself reading news about yourself that has nothing to do with your life or with you .

Did you react by shutting yourself down?


Yes, at that time I was very hermetic because there was a lot of pressure.

But today everything has changed, my fame is different, and people see me as a colleague, nothing more, and it's not that crazy thing anymore.

I'm more relaxed in that sense but, to be honest, I'm still shy about my personal life.

I think it's a reflex action inherited from those days, maybe it's a protection for me and my family, which has absolutely nothing to do with all this.

But, well, over time you learn to manage your life and my circumstances have been these for a few years now.

So whether you like it or not, whether you're more comfortable or less, you learn to live by being famous.

On a professional level, does this series boom give you a stability that didn't exist before?

This profession is never calm or stable.

Actually, that's what hooks.

When you've been around for a while and you've done some high-profile work, you do notice a certain security, but you never fully trust yourself.

There are many series, it is true, but there are also many series that are launched, do not work and stay there.

In reality, this profession is very rare because thousands of people have been searching for the formula for success for years and still no one knows what it is.

It is impossible to guess which project is going to hit the ground running.

In 'Nasdrovia', Leonor Watling and you form a couple of similar age.

Is the typical difference in years disappearing from the screen: older man-young woman?

I do notice it and I hope it goes to more.

This industry has mistreated women from the age of 40: suddenly you could no longer be the

leading lady

, only the mother of the

leading lady

.

And so the incredible talent of 40-year-old actresses was diluted and wasted. Now I think that problem is beginning to be considered when writing stories, especially because the public demands it.

People of our generation want stories where they see themselves reflected and that implies that women are also our age and not 15 years younger.

The trigger for the series is a bad crisis of the 40s. How did you handle them?

For me, the crisis of the 40 was when I did a calculation and said: "Holy, I have the same as I have lived. I eat a lot."

It's a bit of a burden.

And then, I think it will happen to you too, many times we are not aware of how old we are.

A lot of days I wake up thinking I'm in my 30s and I spend hours like that, until the day progresses, someone from you calls you or some nonsense like that, and you say: "Come on, damn...".

It's funny, but I think that after 30 and something your head stays the same, standing there.

The physique is something else... Up to what age do you estimate that you will be able to play 'handsome' roles?


No, it's already noticeable, it's already noticeable.

Now I get characters who are, we could say, gallants come to less.

I enjoy them a lot because they are so much more fun.

They have many more contradictions and many more flaws.

There is nothing more amazing in a character than flaws.

For me, it's much more interesting and a lot of fun now and, in addition, you take away a lot of responsibility and a lot of weight from that very specific fame that we were talking about at the beginning.

That somewhat adolescent fame.


More effervescent than adolescent.

Because when someone becomes fashionable it's an explosion and it doesn't matter what age, it's everyone who looks at you.

The truth is that I am delighted with this calm and this current good vibes.

You talked about understanding the defects of your characters and I remembered a phrase by Josep Maria Pou: "Being an actor has made me a good person."

It's clear that in this job, by hell, you develop empathy.

It is one of your tools.

I will not say that all the actors are super good people, but they are certainly well trained in understanding the human being.

In the end, you are continually putting yourself in the other person's shoes and that trains empathy.

Then each one is each one and there are people who with that empathy do not do anything useful.

Nor is it that all the actors are Teresa of Calcutta, come on.

How did a kid from San Blas end up in this mess?

It's a bit bizarre, but I've always wanted to do this.

Maybe I didn't understand it when I was younger, but I've always wanted it, it was there.

In fact, something happened to me that sounds a bit pedantic, but it's true;

every time I've gotten a character or I've evolved in my profession, deep down what I thought was: "Well, normal, if I've always had to be here, it's natural that this happens to me".

It's a little dizzy to say it out loud, but I'm where I had to be, it's no coincidence.

I have always wanted to be an actor and, although it was not a very common hobby in my neighborhood, I gradually found a theater group here and a course there to end up doing what I liked.

How many times have you heard: "Hugo, less theater and more studying"?

Thousands of times, surely to protect myself.

That it was just a hobby, that it was very difficult and that he should study or, directly, work and earn money.

And it is normal that they told me because this is a complicated profession to make a living.

The data is there, with a wild unemployment rate.

In fact, I partially listened to them and, while I was studying acting, I worked at night on Huertas Street putting glasses out, collecting glasses or whatever.

Of everything.

When did you see that you were going to win the bet?


The biggest change was when I managed to enter the Royal Higher School of Dramatic Art.

I had been studying on my own for two years, I took the tests for those over 21, which are more complicated because there is a much smaller quota, and of all of us who applied, two entered.

I already knew that I wanted to do this, I was very excited, I had been working at night and studying for two years, but when they took me in I felt something like "damn, this profession loves me, not only do I love her, it can turn out well".

That was psychologically very important for me and for my family, who have always supported me, but then they began to believe it.

Then it was all very fast. 'When I left class', 'Paco's men' and crazy fame.

Did everything hit you?

Fame and success are never managed well.

It is impossible.

You have to go through a process, because we are all the result of the reflection of what people see in us.

You get up and talk to your partner and, depending on her energy and how she looks at you, without stopping to intellectualize it, you already feel how she sees you.

She can lift you up or bring you down.

Now imagine that one day you wake up and the whole group, thousands of people, has a wrong reflection of you, totally distorted, that is not real, that is not your personality, that is not who you have always been.

This drives you crazy, it upsets you a lot and requires a long process until you accept it and go back to being yourself.

I was very lucky because, after three years of all this madness, I got several jobs in a row abroad and I spent a year in countries where no one knew me.

It was a kind of reunion with my essence without being distorted by the madness of fame.

It helped me a lot.

In Spain it was something else.

Everyone demands of you, albeit inadvertently, that you be the idea they have of you and that upsets you a lot emotionally.

There were times in the beginning when I wasn't comfortable and needed a lot of strength to go outside.

I didn't feel like it.

I'm not telling you that I went into depression, but I did have a hard time socializing.

I would go into a bar and people would shut up, what seems silly is not silly when it becomes your day-to-day, it displaces you.

Luckily, now I have learned to live my life and that's it.

that you are the idea that they have of you and that upsets you a lot emotionally.

There were times in the beginning when I wasn't comfortable and needed a lot of strength to go outside.

I didn't feel like it.

I'm not telling you that I went into depression, but I did have a hard time socializing.

I would go into a bar and people would shut up, what seems silly is not silly when it becomes your day-to-day, it displaces you.

Luckily, now I have learned to live my life and that's it.

that you are the idea that they have of you and that upsets you a lot emotionally.

There were times in the beginning when I wasn't comfortable and needed a lot of strength to go outside.

I didn't feel like it.

I'm not telling you that I went into depression, but I did have a hard time socializing.

I would go into a bar and people would shut up, what seems silly is not silly when it becomes your day-to-day, it displaces you.

Luckily, now I have learned to live my life and that's it.

How much have the children helped you to relativize all that noise?


I had them late, but, yes, the children have helped me a lot to relativize and to see that there are things that I took for granted without being so.

Because the children, just as they have given me security in who I am and what is important, have created insecurity in me in other things, in seeing that everything matters, that your actions have consequences, that I can no longer do so many things thinking "but what more da".

Having children is sharing your self: it's not you anymore, it's you and your puppies.

It's different and helps you widen your eyes.


It takes away a lot of selfishness.


Yes, for that.

It takes away a lot of selfishness, which is cool, and it fills you with worries on the other hand, but it always sorts out your priorities.

They complete you enough, at least in my case.

Maybe if I hadn't had children, I'd be telling you the opposite and I'd be fucking mad, but, well, I can't give them back.

I'm staying with them, what can we do (laughs).


You are very politically active online.

Does it compensate?


Look, what happens to me is that I get horny, I forget that I'm Hugo Silva, I put social or political things, the toss-up gets mixed up and I say to myself: "Holy shit, colleague, but there was no need to get into this

mess

"But, well, it's already set and it's set. I accept it. What happens is that then Twitter is taken over, which is still a short message at a specific time, with a seriousness and weight that it does not have. It is like football: what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch. Well, what happens on Twitter stays on Twitter.


It should, but it doesn't.


No, it doesn't stay, but I do take it that way.

I get hot like anyone else, what happens is that later the repercussion is not the same.

So now I'm getting colder and calmer.

The only thing I like about Twitter is the people who use a sense of humor, especially the people who advocate with a sense of humor.

That's the people I admire and who I want to be like: be concise, ironic and that's it.

Even when a person picks on me, I laugh at myself with them no matter how stupid they said.

What happens is that in this country, on Twitter and abroad, few people take irony.

Apart from the fact that the networks themselves encourage conflict.


The division seems to go further.


You know what?

Colleagues of mine from other countries tell me that the same thing happens to them, huh.

It has to do with internet algorithms, really, no joke.

Certain algorithms exist to prove you right, reinforce what you already thought about any issue and not listen to any other opinion.

And others play the opposite: they already have you caught the roll and, to warm you up, they put on your account those who say everything you hate.

And in the end, this polarizes opinions here more and more because there are certain political forces that are very smart and use this to vindicate themselves and to look for a place that they wouldn't otherwise have.


A certain right permanently criticizes Spanish cinema for being unpatriotic, but how much does it help Marca España that Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are nominated for an Oscar?


Exactly, they don't say that anymore.

It is a pride for Spain as it is with Nadal.

And above all, it is inspiring.

Penelope's, Javier's or Nadal's should serve us all, whether you dedicate yourself to this or not, to remind us that we are the country that we are, with our flaws, but that we are in the world.

I like to think that that thing that has always been said about us, that we are a country with many envies and complexes, is less and less true.

The new generations are already more connected to the world and I think there is no longer as much complex about certain countries as there was years ago.

Now it is different and better.


What plans do you have for this second half of your life?


Damn, that question is so depressing.


Damn, think about everything you've done in the first half.

In addition, at the rate that life expectancy increases, we still reach 120 in good condition.


Well, let's see what happens with Russia and Ukraine.


If there is war, we are no longer of an age to be enlisted.


Seen like this... I have owned a piece of land in Cádiz for a long time and I go to it as much as I can.

Now, on the subject of my children, yes, I am more in Madrid, but the day that the two of them tell me "look, dad, leave us alone", I will surely live there longer and longer.

Not completely, because I don't want to disconnect either from this neighborhood [Lavapiés], or from La Latina, or from my friends.

As I answer you, I realize that, broadly speaking, I will continue the same until I die.

With the whiter beard, but the same 30 mental years.


Is maturity in the beard?


Yes, I like to wear it as it is.

To work there are times that I dye to rejuvenate myself, but on a personal level, I really like what happens to me with the theme of the years.

To see that even though I mentally pretend to stand there, my body reminds me of the truth.



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