Madrid,(EFE).- The Mexican actor Diego Luna believes that “polarization has grown” in Spain and Latin America, due above all to nationalist movements on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, something that “feeds the worst version of us and does not allow us to see or find ourselves in the other,” he warns in an interview with Efe.
Faced with this, Luna advocates “starting to talk about how much we already do and the number of opportunities we are leaving”, issues that are addressed in the episode of Bread and Circus which premiered on Amazonin which famous people sit at the same table to have dinner and discuss current issues with Luna as host.
The artist, who wants to clarify that “Latin America is made up of twenty territories of brutal diversity” and that “there tends to be a mistake when talking about the relationship between Spain and Latin America”, remarks that this new special “believes in the enrichment of integrate different positions” on controversial issues.
On this occasion, the integration of Latin American migrants in Spain or the need to apologize for the massacres committed in the Spanish conquest of the subcontinent are discussed.
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In addition to the usual dinner-debate (which on this occasion will feature personalities such as the Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener or the Spanish writers José Andrés Rojo and the Mexican writer Jorge Volpi) have been joined by interviews with figures in contact with both sides of the ocean, such as the Basque chef Diego Guerrero, the Argentine journalist Martín Caparrós, the Spanish director Fernando Trueba or the singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina, of the same nationality.
“A phrase like the one Diego (Guerrero) says about the ingredients of the potato omelette explains everything,” says Luna, referring to the chef’s words (“the potato omelette is not fusion or what?”), which evidence the cultural miscegenation, also present in the life of Drexler, a Uruguayan resident in Madrid, with a German father and a Uruguayan mother.
Diego Luna stresses the importance of “We will begin to talk about how much we already do and the number of opportunities we are leaving behind”referring to the lack of cohesion between territories, and insists on “the distance in how history is told”, something that Wiener highlights in “Bread and Circus” when speaking of a latent colonized mentality in the Latin American unconscious.
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The actor considers that “in recent decades, more than ever, Mexico tends to look north and Spain to Europe” and points out his connection with the latter country, with which he has maintained a “very active cultural exchange” since he came as a child. accompanying his father (the architect and set designer Alejandro Luna) on tours.
“The first thing I did in cinema was a short called The last end of the year that won at the Huesca Film Festival”, he recalls while weaving together memories of friendships formed in Spain or days at the Cádiz Festival and the San Sebastián Zinemaldia, which he recognizes as a festival “that always welcomes Mexican cinema”.
These days (between June 25 and July 10), the Mexican performs precisely in the Max Aub Hall of Naves del Español in the Matadero de Madrid his first monologue, Every time we say goodbye better, a piece of dark humor about love, destiny, loss and contemporary relationships.
Source: Eluniverso
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