Emma Suárez (Madrid, 1964) wanders around the room of the Casa Fuster hotel admiring the furniture as naturally as if she were traversing an IKEA section on a Saturday afternoon. Then, during the interview, he serves himself water and accidentally spills it. She herself, while laughing, takes a handful of napkins and bends down to clean without stopping to answer the reporter. Emma is like that. charming The actress premiered Alguien que cuire de mà at the BCN Film Fest, a film directed by Daniela Féjerman and Elvira Lindo, who signed the script and is behind the cameras for the first time.
Emma plays Cecilia, intermediate scale in a saga of actresses, in the shadow of a severe mother (Magüi Mira) and with a daughter who has just won an award (Aura Garrido). Cecilia has been stagnant for some time and if she shone in the past, today she has to settle for a tertiary role in the television comedy of the moment. He suffers but does not express it and when he does, he keeps a fundamental secret: “It seems to me a very tender and close story. They talk about the lack of communication within the family, how the people you live with are often strangers. Also about the difficulty in accepting the passage of time and how it affects actors: in this profession it happens that you are at the peak of your career, you are recognized and flattered, but time passes, and you, in fashion. There is no hole for you in the industry and you are left with a face asking why, what happenedâ€.
Emma Suárez herself, with three Goyas in her display cases, has felt what her character feels. “In this job we have to learn to live with instability; is part of it No matter the awards received: there is no guarantee that you will have a job in the next five years. We live based on the success of the films we make, and after a very successful year you can spend the next one unemployed because no one calls you. I have lived it and I live with this uncertainty. I’m a person who doesn’t make plans”. Suárez explains that a few days ago, embarking on a conversation about a trip with friends to Egypt, she didn’t quite make up her mind: if the project she’s hoping for works out, she won’t be able to travel, and if there’s no luck, it wouldn’t suit her to leave the current account.
But Emma is in a very good moment. She comes from the series Néboa and Intimidad and will be Laura Trueba in the adaptation of the novel Reina roja, by Juan Gómez Jurado. Filming will immediately begin in Barcelona on director of photography Aitor EcheverrÃa’s feature film – 42 seconds, El inocente, (MarÃa y los demás) – with DarÃo Grandinetti, in which he will play Natalia de Molina’s mother.
Does Emma Suárez find echoes of herself in Ada Marta, her real daughter? “She has a lot of personality and I don’t see myself in her, but… in certain anecdotes or situations I have come to recognize myself in her. She was telling me a story the other day and I felt identified: I would have done the same. And I really liked it, it was really nice, because in the end that means you understand your daughter, that she has the confidence to tell you things. And this is what Someone who takes care of me is talking about. My character keeps a secret to protect her; for not knowing how to explain it, time has passed and a rift has been created between the two”.
“Only love is not enough, is it, daughter?” Emma asks Aura Garrido in this film. The consideration serves as a hook for us to probe which four pillars a couple’s relationship should be based on. And Emma, ​​without a partner at this point in her life, opens her arms in a gesture of ‘me, let me be searched’ and replies, laughing: “What else? I don’t know, you tell me [laughs]. Well, I think a sense of humor, communication and trust are essential. If this table needs a fourth leg, I’m afraid I don’t know it.”
In any case, she doesn’t need someone by her side to be happy. “I believe that happiness must be worked for, that you can put joy on your part, generosity, empathy. Trust others and yourself. Choose to be in the light. It’s a question of attitude: we all have bad days, crappy days, when you feel very small and need someone to take care of you. It is part of the experience of life. But you have to keep in mind that that moment will pass.”
