The actor takes a seat in the Café Vienés of the Casa Fuster hotel and makes himself available to the journalist. Álex García (La Laguna, Tenerife, 1981) speaks slowly, asks questions and manages to disconcert the interviewer as a Zen master would with his student. When finished, he will retire for a few minutes to be quiet. He does it every day per se, with more reason when he is on promotion. Quieting not only the stress of a world that turns at dizzying speed but also the murmur of your own mind allows you to be happy. For this reason, he went to live in the countryside with his partner, also an actress Verónica Echegui. He connected with himself and with the nature that gave birth to our species.
In A Not So Simple Life (Félix Viscarret), the young architect he plays faces several inevitable crossroads in anyone’s life: dreams for the future that never come true, the edges of friendship, the ex that could have been, the frustration when looking at the calendar, the lack of perspective that the ego carries with it… Isaías (Miki Esparbé) and Nico (Álex) see how an old colleague is always ahead of their architectural studio, taking the projects, the money and the glory.
Like his character, Álex has known how to keep a cool head: “I have been working since I was very young and from a very young age I was able to see the threads of the audiovisual medium, with many traps and lies. Between the fact that I have a down-to-earth family, good friends and that I have always been awake, I was able to see the lie that comes with what we call success. When I was 15 or 16 years old, I already liked reading interviews with established actors and I saw that the ones that interested me the most or the ones that I felt happiest, always had a very down-to-earth speech and took away weight from the profession ”.
In any case, the most difficult tests that his character must face are not ego or ambition, but rather the value of friendship. Single fond of Tinder, he seeks to recover with others what he felt with his ex. To avoid spoilers, let’s say that he knows how to advise others but not so much himself: “I think Nico is wrong because he acts from euphoria, not from the heart. Any decision that does not come from your heart will be wrong.
Álex tells that he found the path of the heart in silence, dedicating time to himself every day: “Something I did not do for a large part of my life. I spent my time producing, generating, but not myself. Not to listen to what I feel like, what I feel. This is not the time to get a massage or buy something that will give you immediate pleasure; that’s a lie, patches we put on. I check it when I stop and am silent or have a conversation that helps me grow. I would advise everyone to stay away from reading negative news and allow yourself to be okay. Avoid entering into that constant fear that many people suffer from taking the car, suffering an illness, being fired,… Living in fear is terrible”.
Why live in the country? “We must stop the mental noise to which we have become accustomed in our day to day: if you and I go now to spend a day in nature, probably at the end of the day you will tell me that you have felt calm and happy. And it is that the human being comes from there, we were not born between four walls, nor cerebral. Contemplating nature and enjoying it in silence is something natural in the human being that we have become used to losing “.
If his relationship with Verónica Echegui is safe from paparazzi and gossip, it is partly due to this philosophy of life. You won’t see them at many photocalls or sunbathing in Ibiza: “It’s about listening to you and prioritizing yourself. For example, for a long time I did interviews or photo sessions that I didn’t feel like, I went to programs that I didn’t know why I was going to… Until there comes a moment when you know that the important thing is to feel comfortable. And if that brings consequences, I will accept them. But I want to be happy.
Thanks to those silences, he became aware that he was accompanied by a guardian angel. Like the former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, who revealed it in this newspaper. His also has a name, but he reserves it for himself. The good news is that we all have our own.
