Melani Olivares is one of the most popular actresses in our country. The Catalan performer became famous largely thanks to her Paz character, in the legendary Telecinco series Aída, starring Carmen Machi and Paco León, among others.
For more than two hundred episodes and ten seasons, Mediaset’s comedy fiction remained on the air until 2014, becoming one of the most acclaimed series in the history of the small screen. Ten years after the end, the actress has continued to carve out a professional career both in television and in the seventh art.
A few days ago, the Catalan attended the El Purgatorio podcast on The Objective, where she opened up about some of the hottest topics of the moment. At one point in the interview, the presenter, Carlos Padilla, bluntly asked the actress if she was an independentist. A direct question to which Melani Olivares responded forcefully.
”I was an independentist, but it left me as soon as I started leaving Catalonia, which was very soon, when I was almost 16 years old,” the Catalan assured under the attentive gaze of the presenter. ”I started to travel, I started to realize, like now, that I felt super Catalan, but when they called me Spain too, there was some blood,” she said.
”Be careful, some will think you’re a bad Catalan for saying that,” the presenter responded. ”I’m bad at many things,” declared the interpreter. ”I feel very Catalan and I hope they can hold a referendum and those who live there can decide in a sensible way what they want to do, at least,” she confessed.
”Would you vote no to independence if you lived there?” Carlos Padilla asked him. ”I don’t live there,” Olivares declared. ”If I were there I would see what interests I would have at that moment,” the actress added. Regarding whether she had already stopped being an independentist, Melani Olivares responded: ”I have three children who eat from Madrid. “It’s a practical question.” ”You can be an independentist in Madrid,” said the presenter.
