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Paul Rivero.

Madrid, 1981, Actor and writer.

His new novel,

La cria

(Sum of Letters), deals with the disappearance of an angelic child, a star of social networks and who sustains a world made of appearances and terror.

The book talks about a form of greed, especially stupid, which is later revealed as a fight for survival that deserves compassion, right? And about its consequences, because we don't know what effects this way of living will have on social networks, of Divide the world into winners and losers.

Because the exposure on the networks is no longer about pretending a little, flirting and wearing brands.

It is that our work is already conditioned by what we project, by the capacity we have to generate desire... And the most tremendous expression of all this is

sharenting

.I did not know what that is until now. It is to expose the children to create an image that we judge beneficial for us.

With what consequences?

There is a character in the book who says: "If the school nickname haunted me all my life, imagine now that they are written on the networks."

That "look how funny how my son lisps"... That is part of an accumulation of data that means that thousands of people have an image of the kid without knowing him and without him being able to rectify it. Why do we do it?

I put photos like that too and now I feel like an idiot. It's natural.

And I don't judge it.

Parents are proud of their children, they have a photo in which they are very handsome and they like to show it to their friends.

The difference is that now you don't know who is behind a like.

The biggest cases of pederasty are here, the worst blackmail...

In this novel there is a 15-year-old girl hanging on the networks.

Is that crash much worse than the TV addiction of the 90s? I'm not going to judge the obsessions of others.

My brother was crazy about video games and now he is a programmer.

I was also a hangman who played

Twin Peaks

and recorded me imitating Pepe Navarro.

And I feel that there is a relationship between that obsession and my work as an actor.

The problem of the networks is not that children do

tiktoks

.

The bad thing is when they don't do it for themselves but for others.

When the obsession is to attract followers, like and assert themselves through others. In other words, that the actors' own neuroses have spread to the rest of the world. And instead, the good part has lost value.

Do movie actors talk on their networks?

No, they advertise, campaigns, they are in the consumerism of the networks.

They take out their eyelashes, their iPhone, their gym bodies... I'm not free that, for the record.

We are always talking about having and never about what it is like to do theater or a movie... When I was little, I used to watch programs in which film directors came out talking about cinema.

Now we project ourselves as freeloaders, who, with fame, can achieve anything.

Well, some do and many don't. Would you recognize him in his novel if you were his brother,

your class friend? They always recognize me.

It's the only way I can think of to do something, also to act: give your essence, tell something from where I am.

For example: the image of the sinister bunny from the cover and, in general, in horror.

My friends always tell me I'm a bastard for playing terror. You, like your character, were also the official monkey boy of Spain when 'Cuéntame' started, right? I don't know: it's one thing for me to experience that in a way and another is what I understand now that it happened.

I was from independent cinema, from Daniel Day-Lewis... I was with Irene Vicedo and we were very Nazi because we wanted to be taken seriously.

It's silly, but the world was like that.

I almost didn't appear in girls' magazines... But, really, it didn't matter.

I had six million weekly viewers and some saw me mono, what can I do.

Now I meet girls who tell me they were in love with me. Her book is about a neglectful mother.

But her parents annoy her because we are too much on top of her. I read a lot about the subject and the conclusion is that the middle ground is desirable.

I know that it is easy to say: that they are protected but that they learn to be enough.

We are more aware of the dangers.

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