Sílvia Abril has reached 50. In fact, she has been in her fifties for a couple of years, which is not the same as fifty. “I am at the equator of my life”, he says. And maybe that’s why she decided to look back to review, she who has little memory, episodes and anecdotes that have led her to where she is now. The result is the book Pérdidas de risa, notice that pérdidas brings an accent. The actress, who reached every home first with Homo Zapping and then with many other shows, admits it bluntly: “I laugh a lot more easily now than when I was 20 years old, which I did sometimes, which which is still a whore at my job”, reveals the comedian laughing at herself, something she loves, and keeping her sphincter at bay this time.
It is one of the consequences of entering menopause, a topic she addresses in the book, although she does not identify with the word. ” Meno , from minor, and pausa, as a vital pause, do not marry me”. And he adds solemnly: “I am a metacyclical woman, a new concept promoted by Lydia Zimmermann, which indicates that we are facing a new cycle, with changes”, he clarifies. “Life doesn’t end when we stop menstruating, not by a long shot.” Even more, there is a whole other half left, that she takes care of the body through the practice of sports, a healthy diet and her secret: cultivating the macrobiota.
Abril admits that she hasn’t suffered the crisis of her 50s, nor her 40s, nor her 30s… But that doesn’t mean she isn’t aware of the passage of time. “Sometimes, when I look in the mirror or see a photo, I say to myself: ‘Holy shit, is that me?’, but with the joy of being alive.”
He assures that he does not regret anything, although in the book he has preferred to change a few names in order not to hurt sensibilities, such as those of his exes. “I have many, I have left many”, he reveals. And what does Andreu Buenafuente have to be with him for more than a decade? “He’s a fucking guy, we hit it off, but it’s also true that we met when we were a bit more mature and you’re more outgoing, but that doesn’t mean it has to last a lifetime.” At the moment, he doesn’t mind that from time to time he continues to leave socks scattered on the floor. “Put the lid down on the toilet, bastard”, he reprimands him at home. “He makes a terrible effort to update himself, and so do I, because in the book I talk about the difficulty of being a feminist, since we have masculinity stuck to our skin. When I go to Madrid, I practice not calling him so that he remembers that he has to pick up our daughter at basketball, something that I find very difficult. But I’m a feminist, I let go.”
And wherever you go, he has realized that he is in some way replicating his mother’s pattern. “One day I noticed that he was saying to Joana: ‘There are lentils, if you want them, you eat them, and if you don’t, you leave them.’ And I thought I had been swallowed up by my mother’s spirit, that is to say, I am starting to do everything I said I wouldn’t do”, he is alarmed. “Never say I won’t drink from this water or I won’t eat from this bread,” he also said, and now he knows why. Of course, she looks like an updated version of her mother. “I am a woman of my time, competitive, who respects herself, who loves herself and who fights for her life partner to take his place and be 50% father”, both when Joana was little and now that she is a pre-adolescent. “All the time I was telling myself that it’s the hormones, that it’s not her, that it’s the hormones”, she comforts herself, and adds hopefully: “If the foundations are well laid, I trust that it will even be an interesting stage”.
What is clear enough is that, after 50, “she is no longer willing to put up with nonsense” and priorities change. “I love to enjoy friends and family, I reserve spaces for us.” And even more so with a work schedule as full as his. These days we can see her in the film Alimañas, she begins rehearsing the play Esperando a Mister Bojangles and soon embarks on a tour with Las asambleístas (Las que tropiezan) by Aristophanes, a classic like few others . Few things are against Sílvia Abril: “I haven’t managed to meditate yet, but maybe at 60 I’ll levitate”. If she proposes, ten years from now we will see her flying.
