The actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón which will collect next February 8 in Granada the Goya of Honor to its Trajectory, considers that the ‘Metoo’ Spanish is happening in “All professions“And aim that a “Structural change” that allows women to have “less fear of speaking aloud and being able to set limits“.
“I feel that something is changing deeply, either in the cinema, in football or politics. Things are constantly happening. The Spanish ‘Metoo’ does not have to happen specifically in the cinema. Is happening in all professions “has assured in an interview with Europa Press, on the occasion of the premiere in movie theaters this Friday of ‘Land Baja’, his new film directed by Miguel Santesmases.
The actress feels that women have to be less and less afraid of “speaking aloud and putting limits”, with the aim of becoming a “non -impunity space for those who acted so quietly.” “There must be a structural change that happens because we have safe work spaces. I think that everything that is happening is very good for that impunity to end“He said.
In relation to speech against pronounced age this past weekend for Emma Vilarasau When collecting the fierce award for best actress protagonist for ‘La Casa en en Llamas’, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón recalls that she “very clearly experienced this problem when I was barely 35 years old. “I didn’t stop me, they stopped me“He points out.
“You see the months pass and at the beginning you think it is a streak, but you realize that it remains in time. If they offer you they are characters that pass to a second place, they are already the mother of. And that is when you realize that There is something structural in the way of seeing women in the stories that have to do with those narratives“He explained.
In this sense, it celebrates that the sector is changing and considers that it is thanks to the incorporation of “so many talented directors, screenwriters and producers“.” They incorporate different, new looks and make the situation normalize, “he says.
During his career, he has worked in films by Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Pilar Miró, Bigas Luna, Vicente Aranda, Gonzalo Suárez, Jaime Chávarri, Imanol Uribe, Fernando Colomo, Pedro Almodóvar, Adolfo Aristarain, Juan José Campanella, among many others. However, he acknowledges that he would like to work with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Clara Roquet, Pilar Palomero or Carla Simón. “I mention some, but I leave many in the inkwell“, warns.
Despite the brain who lived in her career, the winner affirms that “he has never been tempted to leave the profession because” when it has not been cinema, it has been theater or television “and thanks the” luck “of being able to live in her passion . “I am one of the few privileged ones who have always been able to live on this, not like so many of my classmates“He admits.
“I’m still thinking that I’m young for the Goya de Honor”
When the Film Academy communicated last October that Aitana Sánchez-Gijón would receive the Honor Goya, the actress commented at a press conference that she was “in shock and revolt” since the president of the institution, Fernando Méndez-Leite, He communicated the news by phone and He confessed that he threw a anger because “he did not understand the prize being relatively young.”
After the time, the actress continues “assimilating” and thinking that she is young for this recognition, since she is the youngest woman to receive it and the second minor award, behind Antonio Banderas, who succeeded with 54 years .
“I continue to assimilate the news and accept with thanks. I am receiving so much love from so many people that I am actually trying to enjoy it more than feeling it as something undeserved. I still think that I am young for a recognition like thisbut they have decided that it is. So I have no choice but to thank and express the emotion I feel because it is something overwhelming, “he said.
With 38 years of experience behind him this will be the first time he receives a Goya, something that does not surprise him or seems curious. “I have more awards than I think deserve. I don’t feel any fault or feel that the academy is indebted to me,” he adds.
On the speech made in Granada on February 8, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón acknowledges that “torture” and even “assault” at night. Despite this, he reveals that he came out of the “pull”, although his words are changing. “I really have a bad time when I have to sit in front of the blank page. What happens is that once I feel, Pam! Everything sprouts “remember.
Finally, the actress has looked back to reflect on what the cinema has given her during a trajectory in which films such as’ parallel mothers’, ‘The bird of happiness’,’ her eyes closed ‘,’ or The sort of the final ‘or’ Volavérunt ‘, among others.
“The cinema has given me the possibility of working with exciting people, who have taught me a lot about the trade, of life and that, in addition, many of these people have remained in my life and remain. It has also given me the possibility of embodying Fascinating characters, traveling to incredible places. This actress job constantly gives me the opportunity to shake my life and face new challenges“He concludes.