Teresa Riott (Barcelona, ​​1990) is one of those people who know from a young age what they want to be when they grow up. And of those who have been lucky enough to work there successfully and for a double reason. For three years, she has combined two characters in series that have made a fortune among the public: she is Nerea in Valeria (Netflix) and La Rubia in El inmortal (Movistar Plus). Two opposite characters that allow her to offer two different records and grow as an actress and also as a person.
Next Friday, Nerea and her friends Valeria (Diana Gómez), Carmen (Paula Malia) and Lola (Silma López) premiere the third season of the series based on the novels of Elisabet Benavent. “La Nerea comes from a repressive environment in which she has not been able to express herself either personally or creatively”, explains the actress, and goes on to say that in the new episodes her character will face internal conflicts: “She keeps thinking about what society tells her that she should be, with a normal and stable life, but fate will put her in danger and bring her what she thinks is the least suitable for her, but which will be what will make her enjoy the most and get out of your comfort zone”.
How is Teresa similar to Nerea? “Because when life presents us with complicated situations, we become very neurotic and rigid. Nerea is very perfectionist and correct, and she tries to control everything on the inside because she can’t control what’s on the outside,” Riott replies, also saying that she’s like Nerea because she’s loyal to friends and always tells the truth, “which also has to do with everything being perfect in your own way”.
The other big role for which she is known is that of La Rubiad’ El inmortal, the second season of which is now filming and which is inspired by the life of the leader of Los Miami, a gang that trafficked drugs in Madrid of the nineties Based on a real person, “La Rubia is a free, wild, fearless woman who is constantly in danger, with an inordinate passion for money and a very masculine part, but who also very much enjoys her femininity in a world surrounded by men”.
With La Rubia she started feeling very far away, “but it’s true that I was able to learn a little about the character, because little by little it transcends you and you manage to conquer internal places that make you change”, reflects the actress, who claims that he really enjoys the characters in this regard. “Now I feel closer to La Rubia, I let myself be freer, I say what I think more and I walk more safely on the street if I find myself in conflicting situations”. On the other hand, she no longer feels so Nerea.
Teresa Riott studied Advertising and Public Relations, but always wanted to dedicate herself to acting because she has lived “in a very creative environment thanks to her parents”. From a young age, she took theater, ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, singing classes… “I always knew that this was my path, but there comes a time in adolescence when I have to choose and I decided to train – me in a career without neglecting interpretive studies”, he recalls.
When he finished the race, he felt that he already had that box checked and that now it was time to fight for his dream. He decided to leave the neighborhood where he was born, Barceloneta, and moved to Madrid at the age of 22. Before that, however, he had already taken his first steps, such as a small role in Barcelona nit d’estiu (2013), by Dani de la Orden. “It was a pride to have my first film contact in my city”.
He has been living in Madrid for ten years. She misses going out the window and seeing the sea, but on the other hand “I am in love with Madrid, with the people and the streets, with feeling that we all come from outside and that you have to make a family and have many groups of friends”.
While studying acting at the school of Juan Carlos Corazza, one day he decided to change his diet. I did not want to “collaborate” with the abuse of animals. “When you become aware of what we are doing to the planet and the animals and how unnecessary it is today, since we have millions of alternatives, there is no going back.” He tries to make people aware of this “without prying into their private lives” and tries to live a consistent life in this line that includes the clothes, the creams, the brands he collaborates with… “I think the little changes are powerful and that one person can do a lot”.
On how she sees herself in the future, the actress says that she is now “under construction and finding herself again” and that, just as society does, it is time to rethink family and life models. “I am 30 years old and it is true that there was a pressure of social success and work and family stability, but fortunately I feel that I have been able to get off this train; I’m calm about not being a mother at 30, not having a partner or a stable job, living up to date and enjoying life without prejudice”.
A position that links somewhat with the evolution of his Nerea in Valeria. “These kinds of new series and these kinds of stories are breaking paradigms. The pandemic also made us reflect on what we want”. The actress avoids moving out of inertia and says that she continues “with that idleness of stopping and seeing what life brings me without me having to go looking for what I don’t know if I want”.
