She had no vocation as a mother.
I was evaluating successive couples… and I didn’t see it. Maybe with one I could have…
But no.
Today she would be a wonderful and loving grandmother.
What would you teach your grandchildren?
Be confident in yourself – it’s essential. I missed it, because of my parents.
Eat in?
Good and decent. I was an only child: I was overprotected, insecure.
Did they support her as an actress?
At the age of twenty I was picked up from the theater.
To protect her from the night.
Being an actress seemed indecent to them.
What else would you have wanted to be?
I visit archaeological sites, step where history stepped: making history documentaries! I would be Indiana Jones.
Yes, he did journalism on television.
Trasgos, interviews for TVE: the best of my career with La escopeta nacional.
Remind me of your interviews.
Indira Gandhi He gave me twenty minutes, but I liked him: we shared two days. I met the Sikh bodyguard at his house who would later kill him…
Another interview.
The King of Thailand asked me: “How does Andorra see it?” I’m still shocked! Or General Gutiérrez Mellado: he told me how the guard who was guarding them in a quartet on the 23-F looked at Felipe and Guerra… while stroking his machine gun.
They were good interviews.
But some would sometimes ask me “who writes the questions for you?”. I was more offended by this than if they called me “slut”! I prepared them, my soul is a journalist.
And he mentioned The National Shotgun…
One day Berlanga said to me: “You are very funny”, and wrote my character for me.
In the film you are formidable.
When we were filming, he ordered me: “Put in the sausages! ”, and I invented “ que se puede pasaaar? ” or “ look, Jordi, rustling!” .
unforgettable
If one day I delayed putting in black puddings, he scolded me: “I hired you to invent funny things!”, he would say.
And you, the sea of ??happiness?
I? I would have spent my life shooting films like La escopeta nacional. I was tired of always playing a beautiful and unpleasant, evil and rich lady!
He had shot Furia española in 1975.
Ground-breaking, extreme, wild, a film so far-fetched, Almodóvar’s predecessor, had never been shot. A delirium by Paco Betriu. Franco was drawn to the title… and asked to see her.
And did you see her?
Yes, in El Pardo. We gave Franco the last chance to go to the grave: Chinatown, whores, macaroni… I’m a nymphomaniac girl, I wear a Barça bikini and fornicate with Cassen, in front of a voyeur neighbor.
Crazy provocation.
I smelled bad, but I understood that those excesses were liberating… and that they opened new paths. Almodóvar, go or not.
Did you also see Franco’s film Dona Carmen Polo?
I imagine her next to him, but… it’s impossible for him to see her through to the end!
In Saben quell, David Trueba’s new film, you return to the screen.
I interpret myself as Eugenio’s first television interviewer… I wish I had that vitality today!
Of the many legendary actors you met, who do you miss the most?
Luis Escobar, intelligent, funny and cultured. And Fernando Fernán-Gómez: it was a luxury to listen to him.
Which actress do you admire the most?
Meryl Streep. Supreme! He carefully prepares each character… Oh, and I worked with Marcello Mastroianni!
How great! How about in person?
Cute, nice, simple, the boy from the neighborhood! adorable roman i love rome I almost married a Roman… but he wanted me to cover my shoulders on TV. And no.
Were you sexually harassed?
A guy in an office: I snuck out, tore up the check he was giving me, got home, got in the bathtub and cried. I explained it to my partner. I didn’t report it – I would today.
Do you approve of the men who were your successive partners today?
I kept friendship with all of them. I’m not jealous: no one is anyone’s property! I do ask one thing of a partner: that they don’t lie to me. That’s why I approve of every man I’ve been with… except one.
Do you want to talk about it?
Let’s talk about Alexander the Great. He created a world! His grave has not yet appeared. I would give anything to find her!
What is your strong point?
The sense of humor.
