Carlos Areces: “Ojete Calor we are a ‘boy band’ with an unexpected twist: we are not good” | Culture | EUROtoday

Date at vermouth time, though he orders a rooibos tea, in an attractive, and abandoned, lodge cafeteria with privileged views of the crowded sidewalks of Madrid’s Gran Vía on Christmas Eve. It is right here, a spot that he asks to not reveal in order that “it doesn’t get crowded,” the place he normally meets with Aníbal Gómez for his private and artistic summits. He arrives a little bit late, “stuck and attacked”, between dashing and making an attempt on the costumes and different needed props for the ineffable Ojete Calor present at Madrid’s WiZink Center, with company and shock acts till April Fool’s Day itself, December 28. Areces, who’s crying out for a break after two years of frenetic exercise as an actor, predicts that maybe this would be the group’s final mass recital. He stated the identical factor final yr.

They are going to carry out on the identical stage and some days after serving Paul McCartney. What much less, proper?

Well, two years in the past The Cure opened for us, and that was a spotlight. And the truth that it’s April Fool’s Day, the one free Saturday left in December, is a good cosmic puzzle that lastly is sensible.

Who is the mind and who’s the physique of Ojete Calor?

It is clear that we’re each the physique. We are one boy band with an surprising twist: we’re not good.

“Ojete Calor is a joke that has gotten out of hand”

Are you and Aníbal Gómez a pair, artistic, secure? They have been collectively since 2005.

When we met there was an absolute, prompt and inevitable crush. I heard somebody remark that the one option to join with one other individual is a humorousness. If that is actual, I do not suppose I do know a pair I join with greater than Aníbal. The solely factor that has modified in ours is stress. The rest that we had when this was a interest than having to arrange a live performance for 13,000 individuals. Suddenly the issue of hysteria, haste and professionalism enters, as a result of we’re cussed for some time. Ojete Calor is a joke that has gotten out of hand.

Are the lyrics of your songs chronicles, satires, all collectively? What are they impressed by?

We usually are not devoted to deciphering them. They are a caricature and intensely frivolous and if you wish to discover one thing beneath, nice, however it’s not important. You can say from they suck to they’re actually enjoyable, going everywhere in the spectrum. We are impressed by what can encourage a 15-year-old teenager: associates, the gang, first loves, going out consuming, first farts. Look, for instance, on the track Policysays: “Between the blues, the greens or the reds, I am going to vote for whoever best matches my eyes.” Chronicle? Satire? Up to you. That’s what we like.

Do they name their very own “subnopop” to offer or take away significance?

For me, there may be nothing extra enjoyable than these artists who give themselves significance, as if they’d found the remedy for AIDS. At first they criticized us that ours shouldn’t be music, and we stated, we’re going to agree with them, we’re going to create our personal style in order that nobody feels offended. And “subnopop” is the phrase that greatest outlined us. We are the primary to name it.

The RAE has simply accepted the phrase “spoilers” What do you suppose they have not accepted but? oldcome, title of a track of yours from 2017?

I discover it very unfair, to be sincere, particularly when one other yr he accepted “friend”, which nobody says. What of oldcome It happened stupidly. We had been in Albacete, within the residence of some associates and to explain somebody who was neither skinny nor fats, I had a second of inspiration, it occurred to me delgordoand issues degenerated till oldcomewhich is that man below 35 years outdated with the looks, tastes or manners of an older individual. Because, I additionally let you know: in case you are 65, you might be now not outdated, you might be outdated, face it, and that phrase has already been invented. Getting outdated is a bitch, however the various is leaving an attractive corpse.

The different day, I used to be speaking to a lady who helps us with the live performance and she or he did not know who Björk was. “Imagine if I told him about Angela Lansbury.”

And you, at 48, are you continue to oldcome?

Well, I can not maintain on to that anymore. But I’ve at all times felt older than I used to be, since I used to be 20. Be cautious, not smarter, wiser or something, however with that unhappiness that the years provide you with. And that has solely gotten worse. I really feel older than I would really like. The adverse a part of growing old is that the physique and pores and skin undergo, and that your references are misplaced. The different day, I used to be speaking to a lady who helps us with the live performance and she or he did not know who Björk was. Imagine if I instructed him about Angela Lansbury. I do not blame her. You can’t pressure your self to compress into your 20 years the data that I’ve at 48. It could be very unfair. But getting older additionally has good issues.

For instance?

Other individuals’s expectations of you decrease, and you may enable your self to not must exit, which I like: not having to faux that I wish to go to bars or having to speak loudly with music at full quantity. I at all times hated nightclubs, as quickly as my colleagues and I entered, the speaking stopped and the searching started. So, now I like with the ability to have leisure as an older individual: Netflix, having pastries with tea within the afternoon, snacking, going to the films, watching comics, having dinner with associates at dwelling…

I’ve learn that you’re inquisitive about present affairs of the center. Is it greater than Terelu Campos or of Barbara Rey?

I’m within the B-life sequence, not the principle actors, however the secondary ones, in all the pieces. But, to your query: Bárbara Rey, in fact.

By?

Man, please, hierarchically Bárbara Rey is above, though I’ve saved a canopy of {a magazine} the place Terelu seems with an incredible headline: “Why doesn’t Terelu lose weight?”, in capital letters, as if it had been a State downside, which It fascinates me. But, come on, Barbara’s factor is unbeatable: these names, that energy, that figuring out how you can promote herself, that zeal, that traitorous son, she has all of it. I do not suppose Barbara can do something in her inventive life above what she has completed along with her private life.

What did the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca have 30 years in the past for comedians like him to assemble there? Joaquin ReyesRaúl Cimas, Ernesto Sevilla and your self?

Well, we went to totally different programs, after which Paramount Comedy introduced us collectively. But, come on, what distinguished this school from others is that it was created to fight the academicism of others and, when it got here to presenting a venture, the glibness to current it took priority, as a lot as expertise. So possibly we ended up all of the rice there pegao that we did not slot in different extra basic locations.

You are from Madrid, the one non-La Mancha member of that quartet. Did they communicate the identical comedian language?

Well look, originally, within the first scripts of The chanante hourI used to be like Margaret Dumont within the Marx Brothers movies, that nice woman who did not perceive something, as a result of she did not perceive the comedian context. But, then, with Joaquín Reyes because the supreme ideologue, who could be very La Mancha, but additionally has a variety of Monty Python, we at all times had a connection.

My best expertise is pretending to be one thing I’m not. Pretend that I’ve the expertise that I haven’t got.”

He draws comics, acts, sings, plays showman. Are you the Leonardo of the 21st century?

Can you imagine what kind of a jerk I would be if I said yes? I do many things, but I am not a master at any. My greatest talent is pretending to be something I’m not. Pretend that I have the talent that I don’t have.

This is when he tells me he suffers from imposter syndrome.

Deep down, when we say we have it, it seems like it’s to take away our nerve, so that they tell us: man, you’re worth a lot. But, those of us who have ended up working in cinema, for example, without professional training, this syndrome mitigates a little over the years, but, no matter how hard you scratch, it is still there. Now there is also impostors that, to me, they transmit more than people who are not, in the strict sense. I watch a movie with Luis Ciges or Rafaela Aparicio or Gracita Morales or Chus Lampreave out of focus behind a close-up of Marlon Brando and I don’t even realize that Brando is there. That magic cannot be learned or taught.

Is that what you have in front of the camera?

No idea.

Have you never done self-exploration?

I try to do little, because sometimes I don’t like what I find. A little self-exploration is inevitable, but come on, I would never share my conclusions with anyone. I keep it for myself and my psychologist.

Wow, I thought I was the only actor who didn’t go to therapy.

Sorry to disappoint you, but yes. For three years now. I also tell you that, as Woody Allen said in his memoirs, on the day I go and tell my moves, I feel fine, but my fears, my obsessions, my envy, my jealousy are the same as 20 years ago. The difference is that now I share them and that night I sleep very well.

And the friends?

Friends too, but friends have their lives and you can’t be telling them the same shit every week. But, yeah, I’ve always thought that if I had a friend with enough free time, it would save me a bundle.

Stars in the series Muertos and collect old photos of deceased people. Is it necrophilia or fetishism?

Let’s see, necrophilia, no. Death, for me, is also a taboo. I don’t like a funeral home or a burial or anything like that, I’m no stranger to my time. But, in the 19th century, the dead were watched at home, washed, shrouded, and those photos, to me, are fascinating, and I like to collect them. I also collect comics and many things. Fetishist? I invented fetishism.

What things would you never collect?

Anything intended to be collected and that can be purchased in a store. souvenirs. But wait, I told you too quickly. Maybe if I start with a Fundador cognac fan and a Naranjito from the time and add three other old things, I open a door that I have a hard time closing.

You are the actor who has played the most times, five times, Franco. In 2025 there are a lot of events commemorating the death of the dictator. Do you see a job niche there?

Frankly, I don’t want to pigeonhole myself. But if. They have stopped me on the street just to tell me: “Excuse me, I don’t want to bother you, but you look a lot like Franco”; So, I say: “ah, okay, thank you.”

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