Sara Escudero Rodríguez is a Spanish actress, comedian and television presenter. Her ability to make people laugh with white and witty humor led her to get on stage professionally for the first time in Vilagarcía de Arousa in 2006, arriving the following year at the Café-Teatro circuit of the Valencian Community, where she performed for 28 consecutive days. Since then, she has toured Spain and its interiors with her own text stand-up comedy shows, beginning with bars, restaurants, nightclubs, empty swimming pools, filthy gambling dens… and in recent years in movie theaters and theaters. first category.

You work on several things, actress, comedian, presenter… Which of all fills you up the most?

I am an actress and comedian and presenting events or programs is a consequence of my way of communicating, like collaborating on the radio. I can’t stay with any because I like them all.

We have read that you began to study medicine in Salamanca, but you did not finish it. Why did you decide to drop out of medical school? You liked it?

Because I wasn’t happy. I always wanted to be an actress but in my time there wasn’t so much information and I don’t have anyone related to the theater/cinema/art world. So out of fear of coming to Madrid to study it, I started medicine but my heart ended up ruling.

Related to this topic, have you always been interested in the world of comedy?

Always. Since I was a child I have been in love with comedy, I was always fooling around, dressing up, writing… And I discovered stand-up as such later, while I was in Madrid, but the fact of living in humor is something that defined since childhood.

We have been informed that you have been a producer and director of several short films. What inspires you to write and produce short films? What is your favorite short film?

The thing to throw myself into writing, producing and directing the shorts is out of pure love of art. I have always written stories because my soul needed it and in the case of the shorts, two are based on real events “Girl” and “By Error” and “Dorothy, Ninette and a 50 Bill” is the film adaptation of a piece I wrote for a Microteatro.

I can’t pick a favourite. The first for being the first and Chica for what it is.

In your latest book, El Canino de Santiago, we can see how you embark on this adventure with your dog Nala. What does she mean to you?

Nala was and will always be my four-legged soul mate. Only those who merge with an animal can understand it. We were a vital pack and that is how we continue, only in a different way… The Camino de Santiago together and our journey of life. Love and humor with an open heart.

Having worked in so many places, which one did you like the most and which one would you repeat?

Everything is “done” chapters, closed and you would not return the same, because the experience marks. But, without a doubt, I hope one day “D’Fiesta” could be resumed on La 2 because it was one of the best professional and personal experiences of my life. He put people in my path who are family and the program was a true cultural wonder and hilarious.

You have recently opened an ice cream shop, “La pecera” in Salamanca. How did you come up with the idea of ​​opening this new business if it apparently has nothing to do with your work?

The owners of the franchise have been friends of mine for 20 years and it is a business that I have seen grow and that I already loved and was enthusiastic about. And my partner and I wanted to put an egg out of the artistic basket and again my heart launched the idea.

You have achieved many things currently, but we know that at first not everything would be pretty. Did it take you long to get to where you are now?

Very much. Very hard at all levels. You can not imagine. Years of traveling five days a week and performing in terrible places, in terrible conditions. Not being able to see family and friends for many weeks and months, sleeping with Nala where we could afford to, with a messed up schedule, having to put up with scorn for being a woman. And all for earning nothing and less. So emotionally it’s been quite a fantasy ride.

If you look back, would you have imagined when you started studying that you were going to achieve everything you have achieved?

No way. But because I have never been one to imagine my future very long. I studied theater to be able to work on stage and perhaps one day on the small or big screen, but I really lived without much foresight for the future. I discovered stand-up, I threw myself fully into it, I began to dedicate myself to it and to travel with Nala throughout the country and when I wanted to realize it… I lived on comedy. Everything else was coming.

What are your projects for the future?

I have in mind writing a children’s story and writing a play but I don’t know if it will give me time. I have a very full agenda between corporate events, conferences and performances in theaters. Maybe by 2024.