The world is plagued by physical and mental illnesses and conditions that end up making our daily lives more difficult than necessary. Whether it is temporary or permanent, there can always be something that complicates different tasks. However, each person tries to overcome them as best they can, whether alone or with the help of others. Likewise, there are also those conditions that perhaps attract more attention due to their curiosity than due to their bad actions.
One of these has been announced by Arón Piper, the leading actor in the film El Correo, directed by Daniel Calparsoro. He and José Manuel Poga were the guests this Wednesday on El Hormiguero, the Antena 3 nighttime program presented by Pablo Motos. Both have been able to talk at length about various personal anecdotes, the director’s curiosities and even some difficulties they must face. In Piper’s case, dyscalculia.
As the actor explained, it is the numerical equivalent of dyslexia. A striking condition considering the character he plays in El Correo, a person who plays an intermediary role in money laundering between Spain and Belgium, in the early 2000s. “You move a lot of money in the series, but I They have said that you have a difficulty, which I don’t know if they call ‘apology’. “You don’t control the quantities,” Pablo Motos tried to clarify.
In her own words, Piper considers that this difficulty affects her in a very relevant way in her daily life. “It makes it so complicated for me that I can easily be scammed in terms of money, with the changes. I don’t calculate, I don’t understand. I imagine that everyone makes some movements in their head to calculate, which I don’t do. I will do other things, I go back and forth, but I don’t reach my goal,” she confessed, unable to make a clear example for Motos.
It is not the only affectation revealed during tonight’s interview. Poga, for his part, expressed that he suffered from anosmia, a loss of smell since birth. Curiously, it is a situation similar to the one that Marron, one of the program’s most veteran collaborators, found himself in at the time. According to his explanations, he lost his sense of smell after attending a music festival, where overflowing public bathrooms caused him unbearable disgust.
Along the same lines, the actor in charge of playing a councilor of the Marbella city council also explained the origin of Poga, which instead of a second surname is actually a nickname. His real name is José Manuel Rivera, but according to what he says, as a child he was not able to pronounce the letter R and other children laughed at him. The only way to get rid of him without his father getting angry was to “send them to hell,” but with his affected expression he stayed in Poga.
