Tito Valverde has just released ¡Vaya vacaciones!, a comedy with a script by Manuel Burque and Josep Gatell that pays homage to grandparents, forgotten by a technological society in which everything is getting faster every day but an essential resource for parents who cannot cope. Or that they blatantly abuse, as Edu (Ernesto Sevilla) and Begoña (Toni Acosta) do with José and Manuela (Gracia Olayo).

Faking a business trip to Berlin, they endorse their three kids for the umpteenth time and the troubled grandparents are forced to cancel their vacation with friends. However, this time they are not resigned and will launch a Machiavellian plan to get rid of them. A comedy without morality or nonsense that surprises with unexpected script twists.

The veteran actor has not had children, so he does not know the experience of being a grandfather except on screen. With more than proven talent, Valverde is as convincing as if he had changed diapers for years and given away his hours to care for the children of others. “I get into the role, I let myself be carried away by what the script says and the director’s guidelines. In any case, I have always liked children, I have gotten along very well with them. In Pepa y Pepe, for example, I had a great time with Silvia Abascal, María Adánez and the other kid. I’ve always had a rather childish spirit and I’m not going to lose it. On set we formed what sometimes happens, a small family; we played it and we played it well. And that Gracia Olayo is a very good actress. I am very happy that the grandfather seemed credible”, laughs Tito.

Childless but married to actress María Jesús Sirvent since 1984, he has incorporated her into his latest work, Camino de la suerte, already in the editing phase. “It is the story that Jorge Alonso has written about his grandfather whom he loved as a father: the man went to Madrid, where he lived for 50 years until his wife died. Upon returning to town, he meets a separated woman and begins a precious love relationship with her. With everyone against it, the family, the people, society. Almost hiding. Yes, what a vacation! It is a tribute to the grandparents, this is to the older human being who believes that his life has ended ”.

He began to be known for Pepa and Pepe and soon after All men are the same and The Commissioner. “This was what gave me more presence and money to pay the bills and to be able to say “now I can work whenever I feel like it” (laughs). On April 26 I turn 72 and I have to rethink my life a bit because I am determined to live it like at 50 and it cannot be”.

The actor remembers Pepa and Pepe with special affection, together with Verónica Forqué. “He had a pet shop and he had a cockatoo on his shoulder. Then they put an iguana on me. He left her there and the iguana made her life. And there was a crow where the fridge, and all of a sudden it said “Water, water”. She spoke when she wanted, the bastard. It was a wonderful series but it brings back some horrible memories because my girl, my Vero, she has gone the way she has gone and that is an image that I never forget”.

An illustrated farmer in Amanece que no es poco, a relentless businessman in Sin identidad, a seasoned policeman in El comisario, a brutal cacique in Matadero… His trick to always be credible is simple: “Give me a nice piece of paper and when I study it and assimilate it, I I live and interpret it. That is my school. Neither Stanislavski nor Lee Strasberg nor the mother who gave birth to them.