At only 14 years old, Silvia Marsó already knew that she wanted to be an actress and was preparing for it. It wasn’t long until she was chosen as a stewardess for Un, dos, tres…, where she became one of the favorite faces of the small screen in her role as a friendly accountant in space.
A popularity that led her to star in some series, but that made her disappear from television in 1991 to focus on her great passion: theater. A decision for which many raised their hands, since Marsó was at the peak of her success, and she would have received million-dollar contracts.
This is what the actress herself reveals in El Faro on the Ser network, where she recently attended as a guest of journalist Mara Torres, host of the program. The communicator asked her about that stage in which she left television in full success and the contracts that she rejected.
“Knowing that with practically 20 years you could have your next ten, 15 years solved; making television programs with a career as a presenter. “Why do you say no to those offers and go back to the theater,” Torres asked him, curious about this decision to opt for a less “media” path.
The actress insists that she wanted to “be an actress,” not “be famous”: “They offered me programs, contests, they offered me thousands of things,” says Silvia Marsó, who remembers that at that time the famous “checks in cash” were offered. white”. “At the beginning of the private ones, armored contracts with astronomical figures were raffled off,” explains Marsó.
“To be an actress, if you are twenty-something and you are studying, working… You have to continue. You have to keep working, you can’t quit. I started doing theater, small roles in plays with great actors, learning from them and learning from great directors,” she continues.
Given her decision, the Barcelona actress assures that she never regretted it. “I didn’t want to be a presenter, because I was an actress. “I didn’t want to be in the media, for an almost romantic reason or a commitment to my profession,” she says, explaining that in Un, dos, tres at least she developed her role as an actress, playing her character as the accountant in the program.
“I actually wanted to be able to look into the eyes of an important actor on stage and not feel like I was with a famous person, but rather that I was with an actress who had worked hard from the ground up; That when a critic came he wouldn’t say: ‘Oh, this famous person is doing something like that.’ No, no, this actress who has worked from the bottom up,” she admits.
Marsó recognizes that, despite his intentions and desire to take advantage of all types of opportunities, even the smallest ones; She has been very lucky in terms of the roles she has gotten in her career. “If I hadn’t given up those blank checks I wouldn’t have interpreted them,” she says.
A decision that, as the actress herself confessed to La Vanguardia, was fully supported by her representative at the time, Damián Rabal -brother of the great Paco Rabal-, who told her that if she wanted to be an actress, she had to make a decision. “She told me, ‘Silvia, if you want to be an actress all your life, you can’t be famous on television, because then the public won’t believe you when you act in Yerma or play a dramatic character.’ And that’s what I thought too, giving up a blank check. I have as much respect as that for the acting profession.”
