Manuel Martínez Velasco, son of Concha Velasco: "It hurts me that they say that I have used my mother's health to promote my book"

Manuel Martínez, son of Concha Velasco, publishes his novel 'Things you shouldn't do the night before you get married', a crazy romantic comedy.

In real life, he is lynched and insulted for putting his mother in a residence.

Although he is reluctant to do so, in the end, he explains his motives.

You are a great unknown, how would you define yourself in a tweet? Perfectionist, reserved, freakish about order, methodical, very shy and with a great desire for privacy. You make the leap from theater and cinema to the novel. It is a nice comedy with a lot of humour, salseo, but also with moments of reflection.

I really like fantastic romantic comedies like

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The main character Diana is me.

I would love for her to work out and take her to the movies.

I'm getting wonderful reviews.

The protagonist becomes invisible.

What would you do if you were?” What she wouldn't do is what Diana does, which is gossip about what they say about me.

No one would bear such an examination.

Tell me a moment earth swallow me in your real life. Many.

I have a defect and that is that I am very sincere and transparent.

I try to always tell the truth and be as honest as possible.

This has been giving me a lot of trouble lately.

You have said that many times we hide what happens to us inside and project the face that is expected of us.

Have you had to pretend a lot? Constantly.

People make an image of you and somehow you become the character that others expect.

You have to live with a character who is perhaps 50% yours and 50% who isn't.

It is the face that others are waiting to receive from you.

We are slaves of that image. Haven't you tried to break with it? It's too late.

There comes a time in life that is very difficult.

It happens to great movie actors when they are pigeonholed. Are you a mama's boy? No.

I've never been.

Neither mom nor dad.

I have been very independent. Have you led a gifted life? No.

I have studied and worked a lot.

We have had privileges because my family has done well in the workplace, but I have not stopped studying or working. Your mother's entry into a residence has become a national debate. I am overwhelmed with this whole issue.

Ana, it's just that with all my love, I can't take it anymore! Don't you want to tell your version? No,

I think I've already given all the explanations and I can't take any more. You grew up in the theater.

What did you learn in the dressing rooms? Respect for the public and for the profession.

I have grown up in dressing rooms and on film sets with wonderful people, who have the problems of any citizen, but when the red light comes on, they do not tell the public about their problems but rather entertain or enrich them.

How was your character forged? It is the sum of many things.

I am a very private person and I like to spend most of the day just writing or filming.

It's not that I have a social phobia.

I consider myself a sociable person, but not social.

I run away from the hustle and bustle, the party and the sarao. Maybe it's because your family was the opposite. My parents have worked so much that they will have been seen at few parties.

Your mother is very perfectionist.

Does it demand a lot from you? The truth is that it doesn't.

I have been very disciplined.

She is a perfectionist, but I am much more so.

I am very hard on myself.

I punish myself a lot.

I am never 100% in agreement with what I do or with what I say. She defines herself as a socialist, Catholic and Spanish.

Do you identify with any of these definitions? Yes, I consider myself a Catholic.

I don't like to talk about politics.

I like reading the program and I made the decision not to tell you the day before, but the week before the elections.

I am part of the undecided. What is the best advice your parents gave you? They haven't given me much.

They have had the peace of mind with me that I was not going to give them many problems.

I don't like advice.

I never give them.

It seems to me to be a very dangerous weapon because if the person who listened to you does badly,

the fault is yours and if it goes well, it seems that you have to become like its guide.

I prefer to listen and empathize. Luis Merlo said that he was bullied at school for being the son of actors. I have not experienced bullying.

I have had a normal childhood with good children and others who did not behave at all well.

From time to time you hear a comment that hurts you deeply, but I ignored it.

Since I was little I have had innate tools to know how to shield myself from people's ugly comments. How did you do it? I really grew up with my grandparents, my mother's parents, Pío and Concha, and my brother Paco, with his other grandparents, because my parents did not stop working.

I was educated with great respect for everyone, but also to create an umbrella for myself.

My grandmother told me: "Imagine a real umbrella."

And then we made the gesture and what it rained did not affect us because we carried the umbrella.

Well, that umbrella will be coming in handy now.

Yes. Your mother had you as a single woman, at a time when it was not easy at all.

Did you suffer the disapproval of the society of the time? No, because I was very young and I didn't know about it.

I had a splendid father, a spectacular man who gave me his last name.

My mother had me as a maiden, but seven months after I was born she married an extraordinary man that people don't really know.

I have grown up with a father and a mother.

So, you didn't suffer as a child because you didn't know your biological father. Not because I met him later.

But I didn't have any suffering because I had a spectacular father figure. At what age did you meet your biological father? At 19 or 20 years old.

It was a wonderful meeting that had to happen.

Destiny is like that and cinema brought us together.

He was my photography teacher at the ECAM and I was his student.

I am very filmy.

It was a very beautiful scene that I like to recreate a lot in my mind.

I was lucky to have two parents in the second half of my life, with their strengths and weaknesses.

Both Fernando and Paco gave me all the love, affection and respect that can be given to a child.

People who say what they want, because deep down people don't know anything about anything.

Your mother said that she could not retire because she had to continue paying the Treasury.

Has she already paid off all her debts?Look, when my mother has made such headlines, I have come out to qualify her words.

My mother has a way of speaking that has nothing to do with mine.

I try to be very correct and precise with the language and many times my mother has said things that were not entirely true and have been misunderstood.

You don't have a problem and you never will and now you're in a wonderful place for answering the question I left you unanswered earlier. How are you doing? The old site was great too, but now you have more privacy.

He needs more treatment and rehabilitation due to his condition.

He is not serious, but he is in critical condition.

He is in a residence in Las Rozas and there is no more. What do you learn from suffering? To relativize.

Fernando Arribas, my biological father, died at the beginning of last year and I have suffered a lot this last year.

It has taken an emotional and physical toll on me.

Last year I had hesper shingles all over my face.

I am a strong person, but very sensitive.

These last few months have been hard for me with these ugly comments.

I have learned that everything happens, but be prepared because something else could happen again this afternoon or in a month.

Unfortunately, you learn to live with an alert in your head.

One thing that has hurt me a lot, perhaps what has hurt me the most, is that they say that I have taken advantage of this to promote my book. Have they said that? The book was delivered in October and Planeta set the publication date for March 2.

The dates have coincided.

If you had wanted to take advantage of that, you would have used another type of more positive advertising, right? Well, I have read real barbarities. Especially on networks, right?

Anonymous? Anonymous and people with names and surnames.

I accept criticism that constantly disrespects me.

We are a family that loves each other very much and I want the best for them.

Many times you have to shield yourself from media noise and isolate yourself to stay in the best for them.

When you do interviews it is very difficult to maintain the balance between what you want to say and what the journalist really wants you to say.

I am like a tightrope walker on a wire, trying to balance the scales of the interview.

Because if there are no people who can think that this man comes to sell a book taking advantage of the fact that his mother is ill. Is it unfeasible to have your mother in his house?

My mother is very delicate and she is where she has to be.

She gets the medical treatments from her in the morning.

She is learning to walk again.

And, later, she has other ailments, which belong to our intimacy and that I am not going to say.

And those types of ailments, which I am not going to make public and that people do not know about because I do not want them to know about them, have to be treated in some centers because they cannot be treated at home. Why did you change your residence? I chose the previous one because it caught me very close to home, four metro stops away.

But they began to take pictures at the window.

So, we looked for a place that had more privacy, more fresh air and more gardens to walk around.

The room is larger and has its own terrace.

You also stated that residences must be de-stigmatized. Well, I'm not an expert.

I haven't been to all of them and I don't like to talk about what I don't know.

What I do know is about my family and what my mother, Concepción Velasco Varona, needs.

Concepción is a wonderful actress, a spectacular mother and a well-known and well-loved person.

But she is a lady who is about to turn 83 and is delicate.

Spot.

She needs to be in a place where she is supervised by health personnel.

And, from there I'm not going to move, whatever they say.

And on this site I would like to, but it seems that when you ask for things you are confronting yourself and I am not confronting anyone, that the same photos do not come out of the window. You want your privacy to be respected Obviously it is in a place that has a window.

I can't put her in a dump.

My mother deserves to be able to open the window in her robe in the morning without the fear of being photographed.

I think she deserves it as a person and her family too because we have done nothing but work.

I said that I was not going to talk about this topic and, in the end, I ended up talking about it because it seems that it is the only topic that interests us. Well,

your mother did the same to me.

She spent the interview saying that she was not going to talk about a topic and, in the end, she did. Yes, I talk but I have been giving the same version for more than a month.

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