Daniel Izeddin (text and video) / Javier Barbancho (photographs)

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He was born in Cantabria because his family was spending the summer there, and he did so at his grandmother's house. "In the year 54 that was something more or less common," explains

Antonio Resines in the Retiro district

, where he has cited EL MUNDO because this is his neighborhood;

the place he came to with his family when he was barely three months old.

Specifically to

a house on Sainz de Baranda Street.

Then his father worked as a lawyer for Dragados y Construcciones. "He has been in the great works of this country," he says. "He was the head of the legal department."

The actor enters the Retiro Park through the Puerta de la Reina Mercedes, in front of Ibiza Street. Javier Barbancho

Over time,

Antonio would become the second of five siblings:

"Four guys and a girl, the oldest." There were ten years between the first and the last, "so at home we were always very clean," he says jokingly. Resines

now sports an Orson Welles look

, but no matter how he goes, with a thin mustache or a mustache, with or without a beard, he always gives his characters a style-proof credibility: on his back he carries

300 one-hour chapters in television series

- "which is incredible," he points out -

and more than 130 films with all types of directors.

If the film critic of this newspaper, Luis Martínez, defined José Sacristán as «Spain. Entera", we could say

that in this country

"Resines is the cinema"

,

at least since his debut in 1980 under the direction of Fernando Trueba and his

debut feature

From Him. But he takes credit for himself and gives them all to his colleague. "Right now Sacristán must be the one with the most films," he confesses. But let's go back to the beginning.

Resines crosses Avenida de Menéndez Pelayo.Javier Barbancho

Although Resines would later return to Cantabria every year to spend

the summer - he even has a second residence where he spent confinement - his entire childhood was spent just a few meters from Retiro Park. "My father worked all day, and what my mother did was mainly

deliver

," she explains. "I remember a phrase of his that he repeated a lot: 'I'll smash you against the wall!' You say that now and they put you in jail.

And the shoe was flying around that I don't even want to tell you about

.

But despite the complicated moments,

his childhood is a happy memory for the actor.

"What I don't understand is how they put up with us, because we were very abnormal," he reflects as a photograph that he has not been able to recover comes to mind. In it you can see

the five brothers in El Retiro.

The little one is in a baby stroller, and the other four are

“tied with harnesses, like cows,”

so that they would not escape. He walked to school, Santa María del Pilar, in the Niño Jesús neighborhood. "To the branch, not to the one in Castelló, that one is finer."

The interpreter holds his hat in the wind in front of the Ibiza Metro.Javier Barbancho

What he liked most were the sports facilities, "which were impressive for the time", with a football field and a tartan track around it. He even managed to direct the school magazine,

Soy pilarista.

"The other day I read that Luis María Anson had also directed it," he confesses. That was the prelude to the studies that he would begin - he chose Literature, and later, at the Autonomous University, Law, a career that he would abandon after repeating first, because

what he really liked was cinema

-.

All these memories pile up as he walks along the boulevard of Ibiza Street, on his way to one of the doors that access the Retiro, where

Resines spent many hours of his childhood. For example, in the Menagerie,

as he recalled in the funny speech he gave when he was named crier of San Isidro in 2022, with tribute to Pepe Isbert from

Welcome Mister Marshall

(Berlanga, 1953) included.

Before entering the most famous park in Madrid, Resines tells the anecdote of the neighbor who, when asked where he is going, answers that he is going for

a walk around his property as if the greenest lung of Madrid were his possessions.

"This is a wonder," he says as he crosses the Puerta de la Reina Mercedes, one of the entrances to this historic garden protected as an Asset of Cultural Interest and considered a

World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

«Look how it is now, a normal day. The weekend is a little more complicated, because there are a lot of people, but now it's nice," he explains. When asked if he also thinks

he

is

Louis

-taking advantage of the fact that the photographer of this report, Javier Barbancho, is from Córdoba-.

SAWDRILLS, YOUR NEW SERIES

The actor, who despite his hundreds of performances continues to face, years later, the fan phenomenon of

Los Serrano

(2003-2008),

is premiering another television series these days on Prime Video,

Serrines, actor's wood,

where he is the great protagonist, once again, of what he defines as

"a great joke, a kind of joke on the actors, the producers, the television networks...".

A self-parody of an actor who achieves fame thanks to the series

Los tocino

, but not the recognition of critics or his professional colleagues. He is accompanied in the cast by characters like Jorge Sanz.

The fiction

is a hyperbole of their own lives taken to the most exaggerated histrionics,

and where it is appreciated that

not everything is politically correct

. In it, laughter is guaranteed. "And we have lowered it, because sometimes there were some stupid things... But yes, we mess with everyone," he highlights. Furthermore, Resines is clear that if the character you laugh the most is the protagonist, which is you, "you are shielded and they can no longer tell you anything."

The actor greets a friend while walking through El RetiroJavier Barbancho

In addition to walks through El Retiro, the actor confesses that

another of his passions is having a beer or a snack in the historic Florida Park.

"In spring you don't know what that's like...", he acknowledges, to assure immediately afterwards that

as long as his body holds out he will continue in this neighborhood,

where in addition to spending his childhood he

bought his first home,

on Menéndez Pelayo Street, a early 90s. In fact, right there he has a photo with his sister and his parents when he was a child, and right above his head appears the house that years later would be his. «Later I sold it to Santiago Ramos. Now he's screwed, man. And, coincidences of life,

in the house that he lived with his parents as a child, the Bardem family later lived.

“In my current house, also in this neighborhood, I have lived since the late 90s,” he explains. "How curious, I've lived on the same block since '92."

The morning continues in the bustle of promotions for their new series. On the way to a television interview, on the taxi ride to the set,

Resines details how he became an actor: out of pure necessity.

When he failed the first year of Law, they had just launched Information Sciences at the Complutense, where he signed up with his friend Juan Molina, currently director of Photography, because they were both passionate about the seventh art. . "There were three schools: Journalism, Advertising and Cinema, and they merged them into a single degree," he explains. There, colleagues such as film critic Carlos Boyero and Fernando Trueba were waiting for them, "who was already clear that he wanted to be a director."

Resines drives a motorcycle while filming a short film directed by Fernando Trueba (standing) El Mundo Archive

They began to make short fiction

together as a way to learn the trade

; Resines, who did production work,

also began to participate as an actor because they did not have money to pay professionals.

And that's how he came to Trueba's first film,

Ópera debut

, in 1980, "which was a bombshell and the beginning of this whole story. From there there was continuity and we entered the professional film circuit.

Later she has worked with directors such as Mario Camus, Berlanga, Álex de la Iglesia, Aristarain, Urbizu, Ricardo Franco, Gonzalo Suárez, to name a few, and also

with the best Spanish actresses and actors of the last 50 years.

One of his greatest milestones was

Thieves Go to the Office

(1993-1996), where it can be said that he graduated as an actor thanks to colleagues such as Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, Agustín González, Manuel Alexandre or María Luisa Ponte.

"That was no longer a school, it was the university."

At 69 years old, Resines cannot feel more full of memories and experiences, although not all of them are positive, such as the one that led him to remain

in a coma for several days due to the coronavirus

(admitted for 48 days, until February 2022). "I had a fucking time, with

terrible delusions

." That is why he will always be grateful to public health, which saved this tireless actor who

defines himself as a social democrat.

"Being on the left means that it seems logical and reasonable to you that people live as well as possible."

CASTIZO QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favorite corner.

I love the center, and I really like the Plaza Mayor. There are two or three places that are not yet full of tourists and where you can calmly have a beer.

2. A meal.

The stew My sister does it magnificently.

3. A memory.

You can't see it now, but you passed Doctor Esquerdo and all that was an open field. I remember it perfectly, as if I were a child. There were no houses yet and we played cops and robbers.

4. A Sunday plan.

Go down to get the newspaper, buy bread and stay home. At noon go have a beer at Casa Martín or eat at Restaurante Berlanga [by José Luis García-Berlanga, son of the film director]. Even though it was inaugurated days before confinement, and that is indeed a handicap, the guy has pulled it off because it is wonderful, but above all because he makes rice...

5. And at night?

We almost didn't go out. We meet people at home for lunch or dinner. I've already gone out a lot when I was young, too much. Like my friend Carlos Boyero, although a little less than him. Take that away, it kills me.