Long before proudly shouting that he descends from the Cid Campeador, and defends the glorious Spanish empire, Antonio Recio (“wholesale, not clean fish”) was Josep López (Lopes), a convinced Catalanist with animosity towards Madrid and Castilian. These two characters who seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum, however, have one point in common, that of being played by the Catalan actor Jordi Sánchez, who today, May 13, celebrates six times around the sun.
Sánchez is currently filming the fifteenth season of the series La que se cerca, from Mediaset, a comedy, which owes much of its success to Antonio Recio (“how good I am and what a big ass I have”), because although the values that he represents are more than despicable: xenophobic, homophobic, sexist…. his masterful interpretation in a humorous way has turned Recio/Rancio into one of the characters most loved by the audience. “Deep down it’s a bit sad because everything goes wrong,” Sánchez confessed in an interview about this role that he has been playing since April 22, 2007, when the first of the 186 episodes that have been broadcast aired – repeatedly in the group’s channels.
The 73 episodes of the six seasons of the television comedy Plats Bruts have also been repeated on numerous occasions on TVC – especially in the summer. It was Jordi Sánchez’s rise to fame, thanks to the pessimistic Lopes, along with Joel Joan. The popularity of the series, broadcast from 1999 to 2002 and awarded the Ondas, crossed borders beyond Catalonia and made Alberto and Laura Caballero notice him in Madrid and give him an episodic role in Here there is no one who lives and then I fixed on the one that is coming. Precisely the fact that he had more and more job offers in Madrid was what forced him to separate from his artistic partner Joel Joan, with whom, in addition to Plats bruts, he founded the theater and television production company Krámpack. Also part of it was the actress Mònica Glaenzel (Emma de Plats bruts), who was then the partner of Joel Joan and Elisenda Alonso, wife of Jordi Sánchez, with whom she has two children, Arnau and Violeta.
Along with his role as an actor, very common on television and also in cinema, Jordi Sánchez is also a writer. On television, Plats bruts and L’un per l’altre are his creations and in the theater he has signed works such as Kràmpack, Excuses, Sóc lletja, Meitat i meitat (which has recently been made into a film with the title Alimañas, which he also directed. and stars).
Outside of the professional, in 2021 Jordi Sánchez made the news for being in a coma for 24 days due to covid. Despite the seriousness of the situation and what he was able to get out of, the hospital world was not unknown to him, as he worked for years as a nurse in the Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, ??while he studied at the Institut del Teatre and thought about how to tell his parents said “Mom, I want to be an artist!”, which Concha Velasco sang.
