Pastora Vega: “For the first time I am enjoying living single” | Culture | EUROtoday

With such a sonorous identify, such a heat voice and such a spherical face, Pastora Vega is an unmistakable presence for individuals who have seen her mature on stage since she made her debut, very younger, on TV within the early eighties of the final century. Today, Vega: mature, courteous and stylish, receives within the ambigú of the Infanta Isabel theater, in Madrid, the place, the day after the interview, she premieres the work Kind of doubtswherein she performs the lifelong spouse of a politician, performed by Pablo Carbonell, in the midst of an election marketing campaign. The secrets and techniques that come to gentle throughout the play flip the other way up not solely the protagonist couple, but in addition the certainties of the viewers. He cannot wait to see the viewers’s response.

I interviewed her in 2006, nearly 20 years in the past, together with different actresses of her era who have been going via the supposed desert crossing of 40 years Do you keep in mind?

My goodness, in fact I keep in mind: 20 years which have handed at a powerful velocity. I assumed I used to be very outdated at 46 years outdated and now I’m 65. Then, I had change into a mom at 41 years outdated after having been a mom for the primary time at 26, I had not but separated from Manu [Imanol Arias, del que se separó en 2009]and I used to be already complaining that papers have been beginning to run out. Sometimes I’ve to remind myself how outdated I’m and every thing I’ve skilled, what I’ve cherished, suffered, to get right here.

At 41, then, she was an older mom. Now is the age at which many ladies have their first little one. That has modified too.

We are on one other planet, in that sense. In parenting, in how a pregnant lady is cared for, in every thing. In normal, every thing has modified for the higher, as a result of we’re additionally older and might do extra issues later. Everything is being reconfigured.

Her ex-husband, Imanol Ariasadditionally represents today, together with Maria Barrancoa pair comedy in Madrid. Cosmic coincidence?

It has been very curious. María and I are the identical age, and Pablo Carbonell, who performs my husband, and she or he have been shut pals since they have been younger. All this has to imply one thing. Seeing, abruptly, that two girls over 65 years outdated can inform girls’s tales within the first particular person motivates me and offers me loads of hope.

What does it recommend to you that the tales of mature {couples} immediately entice audiences to the theater?

I imagine that these are points that basically matter and have an effect on us. What does the couple imply as a system? Because it seems that the truth that, till now, it was seen as the one system for the well-being of those that kind it, as a passport to happiness or as a path to stability, is collapsing by leaps and bounds.

You, who’ve had a number of long-term relationships, will know effectively what you might be speaking about.

I’ve at all times lived, or nearly at all times, since I used to be 14, with a accomplice or with the phantasm of a accomplice. With the thought of ​​romantic love at all times in my life, in a method or one other. Of course, a boyfriend at 14 just isn’t the identical as at 20, at 25 or at 40. But, for the primary time in my life, I’m having fun with what it’s wish to reside single. And what I can inform you is how badly they informed us what this was.

How have they informed us?

Like hell, as a result of a single girl was at all times suspicious. If she is alone, she doesn’t have a husband, boyfriend or accomplice, there’s something improper along with her, it was thought and even stated to her face. And, in my expertise, it is simply the other. When you might be very well, calm together with your loves, your affections, your loved ones, your work, with the stuff you love to do and with out having to rely upon one other particular person or to maintain or to see what occurs with a secure cohabitation relationship, you might be glad. It does not simply occur to girls our ages. There are additionally many 30 or 40 yr olds who’re realizing that it’s higher to be alone and pleased with your self, than in dangerous firm.

On the opposite hand, there are those that denigrate them by calling them “Charos” and reproaching them for supposed “selfishness” for not having youngsters or a everlasting accomplice.

Fortunately, I encompass myself with people who find themselves not like that, however I see it within the media. And, sure, there’s a great risk of returning to conditions of great machismo and inequality that worries me.

you may have two sons. How do they see it?

They are younger males: one nearly forty and the opposite twenty-something, who know that they belong to a style that must be reconfigured. Even males nearer to my age are additionally noticing and checking. But the reactionary tendencies on the planet, beginning with Mr. Trump, who calls a journalist silly for doing her job, are very harmful and are gaining floor. So, on the one hand, I see that younger girls have, in idea, extra sisterhood and equality than earlier than, however, then again, as these tendencies are reaffirmed, they will have a troublesome time, poor issues.

How would you charge your way of thinking at this second in your life?

Grateful. I’m very grateful for all times. I’m actually having fun with this second, the truth that I’ve an age and I’m very conscious of it, though I really feel like I’m 30 or 40 years outdated, however I need to get pleasure from it, as a result of time passes like a tsunami and I do not need 75 to reach with out having achieved issues, as a result of you do not know what can occur to you. I actually need to get pleasure from this decade and my work, which makes me happier than ever.

How does a veteran reside on the eve of a premiere?

Tomorrow, simply earlier than I begin, a really dangerous factor will occur to me, that by no means modifications. But, you realize? My profession has been step-by-step, however, currently, I’ve seen one thing like a stride. Our job is the closest factor to life, so, in case you have lived intensely, in each sense, aside from the job and rehearsing and rehearsing, the vital factor is to have keys to play inside. An actor, so long as he’s in good situation, is healthier when he’s wiser and when he has to speak extra, with extra nuances and creativity. Now, I’m like by no means earlier than in that sense.

Has having suffered made you a greater actress?

Well sure. Life just isn’t like a faucet, that in the event you flip it to the proper, ice water comes out and in the event you flip it to the left, boiling water comes out. The troublesome factor is to keep up stability. I’ve suffered losses, like my father’s, however what has damage me probably the most has been the disappointments with individuals who you thought have been a method, or who cherished you, and, in the long run, they betray you.

Does heartbreak worsen with age?

Yes, as a result of, as a younger woman, individuals come out and in of your life naturally. But, at 55, or 60, you assume you already know what you need and who you need it with, and the opposite one who is with you does too. So, when disappointment comes it is extremely laborious. I’ve a fantastic blood household and a fantastic household of fantastic pals. But, as an grownup, when there’s a small feeling of betrayal, of loss, it’s horrible. Much worse than when you’re younger. But, I insist, I’m fortunate. There has been nothing actually severe in my life. For different individuals, life splits them in two. Not to me.

How a lot does it price you to maintain that raven hair freed from grey hair?

Well look, it is a ache. It is troublesome for me to be on the hairdresser each 15 days getting my hair and headband achieved. I’ve been fantasizing about rising my hair white. I’ve pals who’ve stated: let’s face that servant, and they’re divine, but it surely’s laborious for me. Right now it’s a resolution that, for the second, I’ve placed on maintain.

Why can we bow to our personal self-demands, aside from these from exterior?

Well, I feel it is due to the testosterone, due to the intercourse. Look at Richard Gere, or Antonio Banderas: at their age they proceed to be engaging main males of their life and of their work. For us, if now we have youthful companions, we get soiled appears to be like, there are feedback, glances. There remains to be a theme there and the background of all that’s intercourse: now we have to be fascinating, skinny, shaved, tight, stretched. And they are often bald that I do not even inform you, with bellies that I do not even inform you about and nothing occurs.

So the answer is to not discuss it?

I do not imagine it. We have to speak about every thing to understand that it’s like that, after which do no matter we wish. I costume for myself, to really feel comfy in my pores and skin. Sometimes, I modify my garments thrice to go to the pharmacy, however as a result of I need to really feel comfy, to not please the blokes. It’s okay now, you realize? If a man likes you it must be not simply due to what you appear like. Like us, we need not see a man in his underwear to love him. Enough of inequality and machismo.

I think about that that poise helps him on stage.

Very, very a lot. The factor is that I’ve loads of espresso with myself and I inform myself: ‘Come on, aunt, eliminate that concern, the thought that you’re not sufficient or that that is too huge for you, or some other thought that limits you.’ That voice now we have inside that crushes you. I refuse. I’ve mine parked and every now and then I honk 4 instances as a result of, if not, I am unable to get on stage. Then you’ll be able to prefer it or not: as an actress, as a girl, as every thing. In this occupation you rely upon individuals’s style, however in the event you do not like your self, nobody likes you.