The Malaga Film Festival is currently celebrating its 26th edition, where we have seen Aura Garrido succeed with an impressive blue eyeliner. The actress, winner of the award for Best Leading Female Performance in 2013 for her role in Stockholm, came to present someone to take care of mehis last job.
In addition to the pompous looksthat we love, there is something that has also caught our attention, the speech of the interpreter Blanca Portillo after collecting the South Award on the festival stage.
Since the 1980s, with his iconic role in 7 lives including, peak of Spanish pop culture, the actress has hardened herself in a thousand interpretive battles on theater stages and in front of the cameras. In 2022 she received the Best Leading Actress award for Maixabel.
On this occasion, Blanca Portillo received an award for her career, so that the one who wanted to present herself naturally, without additives, in essence, is why she went up to pick it up in a white T-shirt and jeans.
“You may be wondering what this mamarracha is doing dressed like that on a night of luxury and splendor”, thus began a speech that later continued with “You have decided to value the work of almost 40 years dedicated almost in an unhealthy way to interpretation and Since that is what is being valued, I want to receive it as a person, not as an actress, and this is simply and simply what I am: Blanca, a person”.
Her words were chained telling part of her story, but also giving rise to a plea against the normative canons of beauty that divide us, classify us and mark our professional destiny, something especially notable in a profession like that of the actress. The same standards that have awarded the Oscar for Best Makeup to The whale and that they do not understand that it is wrong that in the middle of 2023 they continue to be used fatsuit.
“Brad Pitt and I have a few things in common (…) we’ve both had to fight our looks to get our acting skills appreciated, only the other way around. He’s fought his looks to prove he’s more than just a body and a beautiful face and I can also be an actress without her.” At these words, the stalls broke into applause, impetuous and timid at the same time, because they imply a cheer for her words, but also an acceptance, out loud, an acknowledgment that the winner does not respond to those canons of beauty and that life goes on .
“I want to send a message of hope to all those who have ever been told that they need the physique to dedicate themselves to this profession. To dedicate themselves to it, what is needed is love, effort, training, the ability to dream the nonexistent (…) All of that increases with age and practice. Everything else takes time.”
And after this, we cannot add more.
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