IÑAKO DÍAZ-WAR
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Madrid, 1989. Actress.
She obtained two Goya nominations before the age of 25,
The Ministry of Time
triggered her popularity and now she stars in
Malnazidos
theaters , the zombie movie that unites the two Spains
I had the feeling preparing the interview that you don't like to talk about yourself very much.
Is it so?
Well, actually, I don't know what I'm going to tell about myself either.
When I do interviews it is because I have something to explain about work, but in general my life is not that interesting.
Do you think that those of you who dedicate yourself to the cinema have more interesting lives than they really are?
Depends.
I love my life, but my work in particular does not make it extraordinary, no matter how passionate I am about it.
There are many external ideas about what our life and work are like, but my life as a worker is the same as anyone's with some particular things: I travel a lot, the previews, the carpets, the interviews... These things are exceptional and they don't happen in other jobs, but in the end I get up in the morning, have breakfast, go to work and then come home tired.
In the end I do the same as everyone.
Your father is a composer and conductor and your mother a painter.
Didn't you consider studying, what do I know, Law for being contrary?
Well, I was about to enroll in Medicine, but it is true that I always knew that I would end up dedicating myself to something that had to do with the world of culture and art.
I studied piano for many years and all that time I thought I was going to be a pianist, although I was also always involved in groups and interpretation courses.
There was a moment in my adolescence that, although my parents have always supported me a lot, from the outside they began to tell me that being an actress was a girl's dream and things like that, that I had to start considering other options.
That's why I almost signed up for Medicine and, later, I also started a degree in Anthropology.
I have always been very restless and I am interested in many things, but in one way or another I think I was destined for art and culture to be an important part of my life.
Do you still play the piano?
Do you know what happened?
I entered RESAD, the Dramatic Arts school in Madrid, and there I began to see that this profession is 24/7.
It was so demanding and so many hours that I didn't have time to study and practice the piano, so I gradually abandoned it.
I miss it terribly, for a while I had a piano in my house and played from time to time, but then I moved many times in a short time and my father confiscated it from me because he said I was breaking it.
So right now I don't touch anything.
Despite the success, do you still feel the constant pressure from when you started?
Yes always.
I think that the pressure is felt in almost all trades, and more so in this society in which we live, but in this profession it is especially noticeable because it has a very clear extra factor: the reality is that most actors cannot live on his work.
This adds a lot of pressure and a lot of demand.
Above all, self-demand because you never know when the last time they call you to give you a job will be.
I always live in fear of failing and that failure will be the end of everything.
I feel super lucky, and I repeat this because I never want to forget it, but it is true that this job, with its ups and downs and instability, generates added pressure.
And then you have to add that it is a job that involves a lot of exposure and exposure always implies even more pressure.
Do you still think they can stop calling you?
Of course.
I constantly think that it may be the last time.
What happens is that I have learned to handle it, because I have been lucky enough to experience that situation since I was a child.
My father is a musician and I have grown up in a house where there was not a fixed salary that was the same every month.
I have already grown up seeing that reference and seeing things about this type of life and how to handle yourself that no one teaches you later and it is not easy to learn on your own: how to manage income, how to manage time, that you have to calculate three months instead of a month... Those things.
Even if you have grown up in a house where that was already the case, it is still difficult, but I had already had that reference that instability and uncertainty are part of the profession and of daily life.
At least.
It hasn't caught me again.
With 'Malnazidos', those of the clichés about Spanish cinema are going to tell you again that you only make movies about the Civil War.
Even the zombie ones!
(Laughter) Do you think so?
I see them capable, yes.
It's possible.
I always say the same thing with this topic: prejudices are never good and if you don't give something a chance, you never know if you're going to like it.
And that applies to our cinema.
Many external ideas have been generated about Spanish cinema that are false.
The reality is that it is very diverse, very varied, very different and with many genres.
For example, terror has always been done very well in Spain.
And with action movies, well, of course, it's very expensive and obviously we're not going to do as much or the same kind of thing as in the United States, because we don't have the financial resources to be able to do
Uncharted
, but we find a way to make movies like
Malnazidos
and many others, because what is not lacking is talent.
You were quite active and engaged socially and politically on Twitter, but you dropped it.
Why?
I stopped liking it.
Everyone has their relationship with social networks, which have positive and negative parts like everything in life, and we all go through different vital phases.
I felt at one point that the tone of the conversation was violent and I didn't need it, so I didn't want to go into that anymore.
In addition, social networks are very curious because in the end you have the feeling that you know someone when in reality you don't.
Look what stupidity made me rethink my presence in them.
One day a girl I didn't know came up to me and asked, "How's your cat?"
It looks like I should have posted something about my cat being sick or whatever, and, of course, that feeling that a stranger even knew about my cat's health made me rethink how much I wanted to share about myself.
You follow on Instagram, which is kinder, but tends to misrepresent each other's lives and real image.
The slavery of happiness and beauty.
I am a
millennial
, but I am a bit of a rebound
millennial
, I also tell you (laughs).
So my relationship with social networks is not very thoughtful or very intense, so I don't feel any pressure because of the image I convey.
Although it is true that the society in which we live constantly pressures us with regard to our physical image, not only on Instagram. And in my profession, as exposure implies, well, even more so.
But this topic does not bother me.
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