The actor Alain Hernández has taken advantage of this week’s celebration of World Alzheimer’s Day, which is commemorated every September 21, to speak openly about this disease around which his latest short film, Paris 70, revolves, and with which he has a close relationship. Direct relation.
It was last year 2021 when the performer known for series such as The Hunt, on TVE, lost his father directly due to Alzheimer’s. A difficult episode in the life of Hernández that, in addition to the most recent film in which he stars, has also been discussed on television in recent days.
The program Tot es mou, on TV3, welcomed the actor to present his new work and, coinciding with the anniversary, he showed his most personal side regarding the death of his father. “I’m taking care of the person I love the most, but at the same time I want him to go away and rest, and to be able to rest too and the whole environment,” he begins with his story.
Alain Hernández confesses that his close experience with Alzheimer’s represented a “moral dilemma” for him for this reason: “This moral dilemma you have is very hard, but at the same time it is very human,” he assured before the cameras of Catalan regional television.
It should be noted that the filming of Paris 70 took place just one year after the death of his father, so Alain tells a story that was very close to his heart. “My father built a company by himself, and suddenly you see that that person begins to lose his faculties and abilities,” he says about the moment when he began to notice the cognitive deterioration of his parent.
However, the hardest thing for the actor at that point was seeing that his father also realized that his health was declining. “That he realized that… For me it was the hardest thing,” concluded the conversation about Alzheimer’s.
