“I’m from Barceloneta,” actress Loles León repeated several times at the Barcelona presentation of her show Una noche con ella. From yesterday until July 3, the popular actress reviews her artistic career at the Condal theatre, since she made her debut in 1980 at the recovered Arnau and also performed at the Cúpula Venus: “I love going back to Paral·lel and I have to confess I’m brand new shit in my house “.
But Loles León has many tables and has turned her vital adventures into a cabaret party, since she began playing roles in contemporary classic works. “When I went to live in Madrid, cinema, television and series crossed paths, and I became a comedic actress. Typecast? Blessed pigeonholing.”
The actress does not stop working and since she is representing this semi-biographical show, she alternates it with the filming of movies and series (La que se avecina) or television programs (Tu cara me sonido). “Now I do intermittent fasting and I’ve never had this energy, I’m a grasshopper,” she declares.
And he refers to why it is semi-biographical: “There is fiction and reality, fifty percent. Fiction has been increasing while we have been doing it. The good thing is that when the show is over, the public does not believe the truth and believes the lies. The human being is contradictory.
For this vital journey, Loles León has relied on Juan Luis Iborra, who signs the text and directs it. “I wrote it during the confinement,” declares the Valencian filmmaker and screenwriter. When I read the first pages to him, he was moved. But he also insulted me because a lockdown had to come for me to write it. The play traces his life from Barceloneta to today, passing through Jane Fonda’s house, with three dancers who complement the show very well”. They are Briel González and Fran del Pino, in addition to the pianist Yeyo Bayeyo, with whom he performs eight songs.
“Juan Luis has the patience of a great artist,” says the actress, “because he knows that this is a long journey. We have started to produce in the worst time, with confinement and with 30%, 40%… of the seats. In the play, I don’t explain everything, I told him that we wouldn’t tell about something… Maybe I’ll tell it in a book”.
He refers to anecdotes about his grandson, “who is also from Barça but sometimes wants to leave him”, and makes an optimistic call: “The pandemic has taken us out of our comfort zone. The theater has been the great loser, but also the great fighter. Also the cinema. Come to the theater and the cinema, we all need an hour and a half of humor”.
