Karra Elejalde and Carmen Machi stopped by Pablo Motos’ ‘El Hormiguero 3.0’ to promote their latest film ‘La Voz del Sol’.
The actors from ‘8 Basque Surnames’ are working together once again, this time with the help of director Carol Polakoff, in an adaptation of the book of the same name.
Asked about her childhood, Karra Elejalde spoke openly and explained how she lived her childhood in a moving story that she told without preamble and that left Pablo Motos and Carmen Machi astonished, as well as the public, who ended up doubting the veracity of said story. for its crudeness.
“When I was little I was forbidden to run and play. In my town there were incredible currents and when the wind got too strong, if I had sweated I would start to die and to show a button,” he explains just before taking a Ventolín out of his pocket as a sign of who is asthmatic.
“I have been an unhappy child, who was forbidden to run, play ball, play hockey… I could go play kitchen with the girls or I could think about little battles that one day I would write if I wanted to be something in life. But “I was a very sad child and I was about to die,” he said with overwhelming calm.
Questioned about the veracity of what he had just said, Karra continued: “It’s true, although then mischief came to me as a teenager and I became very cocky,” he concluded.
But not everything ended there. Karra Elejalde also told an anecdote from his childhood in which he was the protagonist of a ‘mischief’ after stuffing some clams with pearls from a necklace belonging to his mother, thanks to some tweezers belonging to his mother. he.
When his mother found out, the actor says that she warned him that “she was going to beat me up when the bar closed at noon. It’s the cruelest thing you can do to a child,” he said, this time, laughing before to clarify that in the end, despite suffering until closing time, he received no punishment.
