Karra Elejalde: "I always believed that there is no greater fool than a right-wing worker, but I understand that now they vote for Vox"

Karra Elejalde.

Vitoria, 1960. In

, the film that is now premiering and for which he has won an award at Seminci, he is a monosyllabic and surly guy.

In reality he is a whirlwind of words wiser and more coherent than he thinks.

Yes, but in a non-pamphleteer way.

It is seen that it is a film directed by the hand of a woman and they are more subtle when it comes to addressing these social issues.

More than an allegation, it becomes a reflection on how we are when it comes to communicating.

That's how it is.

I don't empathize with my character in this film, but Avelina [Prat, the director] is very exquisite, a gift from God, a wonderful woman and she came to Barcelona to talk and convince me.

I wanted to ask him: "But why have you chosen me for such a laconic, monosyllabic character? How is this man going to empathize with anyone? If he is a Picasso, almost cubist, orthopedic in his relationship with his own daughter."

The character who lives on the street has an attitude towards life of pure happiness.

However, mine, who has everything, a retired architect, is a gray and unhappy guy.

Damn, well that's true, maybe we're forgetting how to live.

It scares me, but now I'm taking revenge.

I have always been a fucking useless with technological things, social networks and such.

I don't have Facebook, I don't have Twitter and I haven't had WhatsApp until my daughter's mobile phone was screwed up and I had to put it on so I could call and talk over there.

You see a family in a restaurant and they're all looking at their phones.

I remember on the train, when I was a kid, sitting with my mom and she would start talking to the one across the street: "Yeah, girl, this weather is good for artichokes."

I miss these conversations with someone you don't know at all: now you get on a train and everyone is with their own bubble, with her cell phone.

If we are already human beings tending to prejudge and put up barriers, now it's... You're a boy, dammit.

You know what flirting was like before.

The charm,

that your palms were sweaty when trying to seduce or get intimate with a woman.

And today that if Tinder, TikTok, I don't know what.

Go fucking shit.

Nerd.

And, besides, when you're famous, you can't put a photo there and then people will tell you about it.

But I want to tell you that everything leads us to communicate less and less.

I like to talk, to hear people's voices, and the kids, my nephews, my daughter... they all write.

Damn, call me, this is a fucking phone, not a typewriter!

Anyway, at first I was frustrated with cell phones and when I asked my wife or daughter how they worked, they made me feel like an asshole.

Pum, Pum, Pum, that's it.

"But how did you do it?"

And they go away.

"But listen, how do you get out of here?"

I'm very clumsy, but maybe that's why I'm aware of the hook that society has.

My revenge for having felt so clumsy is that now I realize that you are hooked on your mobile all day.

I think so.

You get on a train and everyone goes with their fucking mobile, nobody looks at each other.

If to talk you don't have to know each other all your life!

I've even communicated with ants, you know?

But, well, not everyone has the same character nor does everyone have the same materials or the same problems.

But seeing it from my perspective is curious, that's why I can denounce it, that's why I can realize what is happening globally.

The one who is involved in garlic does not know.

He seems normal to her, like everyone else.

It seems very special to me.

And then there is another reflection that makes the film that interests me a lot.

Socio-economic immigration.

An Andalusian, in the state of the autonomies in which we live, does not feel like an immigrant in Madrid or a Galician in Barcelona, ​​so why does a Bulgarian, who is European, have integration and bureaucratic problems in Spain?

Does this Europe that we are always said to be rebuilding really exist?

To what degree?

It cannot be that a European feels displaced in Europe itself.

It is that the way of doing politics today is based on sophistry and lies, on the "slander that something remains", on saying "Mariví is a whore."

Saying "Mariví is a whore" should be penalized because later it is shown that she is not a whore, but she has already lost the elections.

She has happened to Podemos.

But I also think the left is too intellectualizing her message.

You have to understand, and I don't want to call anyone a fool, far from it, at what sociocultural level you are addressing.

If you are a man who gets off the tractor, that he has the four basic rules and studies, and they let you go: "We are going to pay for social policies...".

His response is going to be, "What the hell is this guy saying to me?"

Exactly, she is losing the people because she is not understood.

However, she sees how the extreme right knows how to say: "The Moor will come and fuck your wife, the Moor will come and take your job, the Moor will come and he will be a criminal."

They are not complicated, it is a terrible message, but one that everyone understands.

I have always said that there is no greater fool than a right-wing worker, but now I understand that they vote for Vox.

If I'm a potential voter and I don't understand the guy who's talking to me, we're screwed.

The left should lower the intellectuality of his proposal, speak more clearly, because now there is a lot of deception and lies.

I don't want to talk about politicians of one sign or another, but I smelled the balls of politicians from before.

I even miss Fraga.

Politicians today are far below the required ethical, moral,

personal, mood and dress by the feet.

We must review the way of doing politics in this country.

I pee and shit like everyone else, I'm a normal person.

I think there should be prizes for everything: prize for the best sheet metal worker.

When you have a bun in the car and you ask the garage: "Hey, but how did you get this bun?".

And they tell you: "Damn, it's my profession."

Me the same: it's my job, I dedicate myself to this, there's nothing else.

That they give the Oscar to the firefighter who has saved the most children from being burned to death because for us it is already happiness to work on something that we are passionate about.

The day has 24 hours and if you divide it into three there are eight, eight and eight.

We sleep eight of them, the body takes advantage of them, but we waste them experientially, and the rest are eight hours of prostitution working to live as well as possible the remaining eight.

The eight hours in which I prostitute myself I try to be a fucking face,

but it is that I am also as happy as in the eight that I live with the product of my prostitution.

I am extremely lucky, it seems pornographic to me to ask for more and that we be entertained on top of it.

Yes, of course, but I will never forget the humble origins I come from, my social status and my class consciousness.

That thing about being more popular or better known... Everything is a lie, everything is a lie.

This fame came to me because of the

What's happening?

That the day before it premiered I was an actor who wasn't worth it and in 24 hours, due to infused science or the archangel Saint Gabriel who incubated me, I was already the shit?

Bah, I don't believe anything.

Trust me: you don't have to believe anything.

They still tell me on the street: "Hey, I loved your movie."

"Which?".

"

because the broader the spectrum, the more places the offer can come to you.

I've gone off topic, haven't I?

[laughs]

Of course it bothers me, it has changed my life.

I was very into the world of the night, I won't lie to you, I've been a gulf all my life.

So, of course, it's very different to go down the street at twelve in the afternoon, that people maintain a certain form, than to go to a nightclub at two in the morning and "Koldo, come here" or "fuck me in ten, asshole Aren't you going to take a photo?

And you to the balls.

Being from the north, I love to eat on a terrace, but now I go inside and sit trying to turn my back on the door.

I spend my life hiding.

I am one to talk and communicate with all gods, because it is my fucking character, suddenly I have found myself with a double dose of this and it is too much.

Too.

I don't like to say no to a selfie, but lately people think that a selfie is part of an actor's job.

The other day they ask me for one in the AVE queue with 300 people and I say: "Sorry, man, it's better not here, there are too many people."

"Oh, you believe it."

They tell me a lot that it is the price of fame, but neither price nor fame nor hosts.

I don't have to pay any price for my fame.

In fact I have never wanted to be famous or popular;

I have preferred to be prestigious for doing my job well and that's it.

I would be much happier working in the same job as I do and not knowing anyone.

What happens is that in this profession it is impossible.

I don't have to pay any price for my fame.

In fact I have never wanted to be famous or popular;

I have preferred to be prestigious for doing my job well and that's it.

I would be much happier working in the same job as I do and not knowing anyone.

What happens is that in this profession it is impossible.

I don't have to pay any price for my fame.

In fact I have never wanted to be famous or popular;

I have preferred to be prestigious for doing my job well and that's it.

I would be much happier working in the same job as I do and not knowing anyone.

What happens is that in this profession it is impossible.

It makes me gag, but don't put me in the headline because Spain makes me gag.

No. The world, society, how we approach life and where we are going make me gag.

Globalization... Here are four phenomena that move the puppet strings and we are totally screwed.

I don't like the world I live in.

I think we could live more harmoniously, I think that capitalism is not the solution, nor is the philosophy of "wide is Castile" and "every man for himself. And I don't like that concepts such as solidarity are despised either. I don't I want to put catholic altruistic, but all that is now unspeakable. Don't talk about being pious, supportive, considerate and kind. No, all those things are not in fashion. Advertisements like the one I saw the other day are in fashion: "Cultivate selfishness ". That seems pornographic to me.

What does that mean?

That you stop thinking about others to think more about yourself.

That's called neoliberalism and it's not going to get us out of the shit.

Nothing is going to get us out of shit anymore.

What do you want me to tell you, I don't like the world.

I have another way of understanding things.

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