Alberto Rey
Updated Saturday, March 30, 2024-01:59
Music Dani Martín dedicates a surprise song to the actress Ester Expósito in which he says "she has me very crazy" and this is how she responds
Controversy He is twice her age, he says he doesn't know her... What's behind Dani Martín's song to Ester Expósito?
Anya Taylor-Joy
became famous during the strange 2020.
The Queen's Gambit
, the series that made her a star, premiered in October of that year, when there were still many things that could not be done and
the safest thing was to stay at home
in front of the screen. Any screen. When we finally took off our masks,
Taylor-Joy was already a star.
Something similar happened to
Ester Expósito .
Although 2020 caught him with two seasons of
Elite
already broadcast, the fact that the third premiered precisely on
March 13 of that year
made us viewers exposed to it in a much more intense way. Because, you know, inside the house (and there we were that March 13), things are magnified.
Ester Exposito was magnified.
A lot. Her home videos of her dancing made her one of the queens of pandemic entertainment. There were Ana (Milán) and Ester, each one doing her own thing.
Milan
was to become
Spain's best friend
;
Expósito
's thing
,
reaffirming itself as a 3.0 star
that our country was already outgrowing. They both achieved it.
See this post on Instagram
From her home, the actress, who had just turned 20, was at the same time Bad Gyal, Úrsula Corberó and, why not, also our Anya Taylor-Joy. The video of her dancing
The Effect
broke the internet. Now another video, this one with
the Mexican stylist Nini Vélez
, has mixed things up again. It is impossible for Ester Expósito not to be aware that anything she publishes on social networks
will cause people to talk.
She and her team know how
the Ester Expósito product
works . They upload a photo to the network and we do the rest. Now what we are doing is
feeding the rumor
that there is something more between Nini Vélez and her than
"a beautiful friendship"
, as the prudish magazines say when they continue to refuse to accept that between not knowing each other and passing through the vicarage there are many things. But with Ester Expósito there is only one:
obsession.
That 2020 in which practically everything happened on the internet built the pop figures of Anya Taylor-Joy, Pedro Pascal or Paul Mescal. Our fixation with all those
"internet boyfriends"
continues: Taylor Joy will soon release
Furiosa
, Paul Mescal is in the elephantine
Gladiator 2
and Pedro Pascal is impossible to get rid of if you have an X or Instagram account.
You can't get rid of Ester Expósito either.
This text will be read basically because it is about her. If the first step to overcoming an obsession is to recognize it, perhaps writing (and reading) these lines is a good start.
Ester Expósito with her friend Nini VélezInstagram
We could say that all
the young actors in
Elite
gained stardom almost instantly, but
Ester immediately took the lead.
Many of us journalists who cover TV series come to the same conclusion after interviewing them in the first seasons of the series: in that extremely young cast there were
some good actors
, a couple of unsalted breads,
an asshole
, a made star and two for do. One was Ester Expósito. The new Elsa Pataky. We can question her acting talent, but not her energy. After Élite, he has lent that energy to projects that used it as fuel (
Venus
, by Jaume Balagueró), he has immersed himself in Martian fiascos from which he has emerged unscathed (
Rainbow,
by Paco León), he has flirted with auteur cinema (
Lost in the night
, by Amat Escalante) and has worked with the Javis (
Veneno
), but above all she has looked towards Latin America, perhaps influenced by Danna Paola, the very smart Latin diva with whom she coincided in Elite. In
Bandidos
, her latest release on Netflix, Ester Expósito seems to play
a parody of a parody of Ester Expósito.
Her character in this series, of course, Mexican,
seems
to be made from
Instagram
stories
of a confined, bored Ester with a lot of costumes and makeup sent to her house by brands desperate for the
real queen of Spain
to promote them online .
Ester Expósito dancing with Nini VélezTikTok
Ester Expósito was, not coincidentally, one of the girls in the
famous photo of
C.Tangana on the yacht. In that image from the summer of 2021
, the king of Spanish music
that year was surrounded by
internet stars
. Women with "real" careers much less brilliant than their presence on networks (Hiba Abouk or Jessica Goicoechea), instant phenomena grown on the Internet (Rigoberta Bandini) or improbable, supposedly artistic firecrackers (Miranda Makaroff). In that photo, Ester occupied a place as central as Pucho.
Even the last girl in that picture had her little moment of glory. Now it is
Nini Vélez's turn,
whose professionalism as a stylist is disputed by no one, but whose current entity is that of
"girl with Ester Expósito"
. It is a complicated position: you are in the eye of the hurricane but you have no control over anything.
The fame of a very famous woman splashes on you,
but those stains are from Diet Coke: as soon as they dry they will barely be visible. Ester and Nini's real relationship is the least important thing. What matters is what we deduce from their posts together. Ours with Ester Expósito, as in the song,
is not love. It's obsession
.