Luis Callejo: "That very actor's attitude of showing off if you come from lower middle class repels me"

Segovia, 1970. He had to wait until he was 40 to know what fame was and for the leading roles to come to him. With three Goya nominations, he now leads the cast of...

Segovia, 1970. He had to wait until he was 40 to know what fame was and for the leading roles to come to him.

With three Goya nominations, he now leads the cast of

The Longest Night

on Netflix.

What does it feel like to be in the head of a psychopath? You really want to live when you come out of the role, but being inside you have a tremendous feeling of power, it's as if you were a demigod, as if the rest were puppets. Why are we all so attracted to that?

Because it shows us the dark side that we all have, the attraction lies in seeing characters who do things that we don't dare, can't or are afraid to recognize.

It is the dark side of the human species, it is the opposite of what has always been said that violent video games generate violence.

The same is true in some cases, but seeing violence is a way of channeling those feelings and avoiding violence in the streets.

Do we live in a more violent world? Violence is part of the human condition, it lives dormant and explodes from time to time.

I don't think we are more violent, we are more informed than ever.

If we compare ourselves with the Middle Ages, I think society is getting better.

We are becoming less naive and we are more aware of the violence we exercise, of the mistreatment of women... That is something that was not talked about and has been there all our lives.

I like to think that we have improved as a society even though now we have the possibility of generating more evil. Have we isolated ourselves and are we more individualistic? We must talk more with the people around us to find out what is really happening.

United we are capable of the best, but when fear strikes, individualism and survival throw us.

It has been good for me to be less cowardly and work as a team to get out of many problems. Have you reached the point where they call you to work without casting? Luckily, I do less and less tests,

but this world is so peculiar that you can audition for a lousy role in an advertisement and be caught four days later without auditioning for a leading man.

Although I love doing them, then you go to work calmer without impostor syndrome because if you don't do it, it seems that you don't go with the stamp. Why does that happen to you?

For fear of being said to be caught for cronyism? There is less cronyism in this profession than in any other.

In another where you don't have to show your face, you plug someone in, but here it's very complicated because you're very exposed.

There is no such thing as cronyism because we don't have to show our CV, anyone can see our work. Why do you have impostor syndrome? It happens to us a lot because we are not very sure, we always think we don't know why they keep calling us or why we agree fashion.

It is true that I have taken it off,

but it took me years to consider myself an actor even if I worked.

But when you've had such a good few years and working with stars, no matter how much you throw stones at the roof, it's that you give the level.

Does it also help to have reached fame at the age of 40 like you with El barco? There it was already very safe and that he only did series in which he died in two chapters at the most.

Until I was 40 years old I did not have a fixed role, I pecked, but I'm glad.

Succeeding very young is very good but you have the chance to give yourself a good host.

I was a fire extinguisher and the joker when I had no one to call, they called me for brownies, but that gives you confidence and makes you feel loved. You said that you lived in a duality between feeling recognized for your work and being overwhelmed. generalized recognition I want it with 70 years because nobody is going to approach you badly.

At 50, I am still young.

If demigods like Messi or Zidane are criticized, how are they not going to criticize us who go out playing the clown.

Has it helped you to have been putting drinks or being a speaker before being an actor so that your ego does not rise?

It helps a lot because if you are already the protagonist of a series at 17, the pressure is very strong.

It's not about bragging that you come from poverty, I'm not going to do that very actor thing that repels me from saying that my parents had a bar or a butcher shop.

If you come from a small boat, tell me that, if you're lower middle class it doesn't work for me.

How did someone who studied law in Paris end up being an actor? Well, I did law because he was scared because he didn't know what he was going to do in life and I did something with a way out.