Karra Elejalde He has been demonstrating his talent for several decades, although many remember him mainly for two of the most emblematic comedies in the history of Spanish cinema. I mean ‘airbag’, which this year is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its premiere, and ‘8 Basque Surnames’. Interestingly, the actor believes that nowadays they just wouldn’t let them make the film directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa in 1997.
“You can’t create with the handbrake on”
Elejalde has confessed that during his time on ‘El Hormiguero’ to promote the imminent premiere of ‘The father life’a culinary comedy in which he stars alongside Enric Auquer (‘Red Sky’). In fact, he has deeply lamented the current situation of Spanish cinema, criticizing that the artists themselves censor themselves so that their projects go ahead:
Now they wouldn’t let us do it, we wouldn’t find a platform or a network because after ‘Airbag’ we’ve written other not-so-heavy scripts and they haven’t prospered. Now we are living a moment in which censorship no longer exists, but it is us from the script who censor ourselves so that the project works. ‘Airbag’ could not be done today.
The actor himself also wanted to highlight in this regard that wonderful things are falling by the wayside, since “cannot be created with handbrake on“. Y it is very difficult to contradict him in thisWell, surely we all can think of countless titles that started from a most succulent cinema and that at the moment of truth did not dare to squeeze it or simply decided not to do it to make it more accessible.
Let’s not forget either that Elejalde is also a screenwriter, since he himself wrote ‘Airbag’ together with Bajo Ulloa and Fernando Guillen Raven. Later, the protagonist of ‘Los Cronocrímenes’ also participated in the scripts for ‘Marian Year’ Y ‘Therapy’but no screenplay of his has made it to the big screen since then.