They received the good news last October. But in recent days they have had to make changes to the script. Now he is more vindictive than he was before, in relation to the accusation for sexual assault on Carlos Vermut. “A time has been found to talk about it,” the presenters confirmed a few days ago. Even so, the ultimate objective of the gala is still present: to make it in the style of Los Javis and Ana Belen, three professionals from the world of cinema from different generations. “We are here to break prejudices and change discourses“, that it is not a shame (to present the Goya) but an honor,” Javier Calvo recently confessed.
They, The Javis, have had a busy last few months. Of many celebrations. The Messiah, his series, triumphed at the Feroz Awards, winning the award for Best Dramatic Series and five more awards. But it’s not all. The story about faith It is the first Spanish series that participates in the sundance festival. Still, the directors They have made time in their agendas to take charge of the Goya Awards. Who has also made bobbin lace is Ana Belen. “Fernando called me and I couldn’t say no, I only told him to wait because I’m on a theater tour and I had to fit the dates,” she explained in a recent press conference.
Who is Ana Belén
Ana Belen is immersed as a protagonist in the work of ‘Romeo and Juliet wake up…‘, by Eberhard Petschinka. But he fit in days to be able to return to the gala that awarded him the Goya of Honor in 2017. Then he collected the statuette from the hands of the directors José Luis García Sánchez, Manuel Gómez Pereira and Fernando Colomo.
He then spoke a few words in which he asked “health and work for this professionwhich does not deserve so much contempt from its rulers.” He also spoke of equality and had words of gratitude for his directors, who have not been few. He cited names such as Pedro Olea, Jaime de Armiñán, Vicente Aranda, Fernando Trueba, Imanol Uribe or PIlar Miró, but she became incapacitated at the theater director Miguel Narros. “He taught me that being an actress means working hard,” she acknowledged.
It has rained some since he spoke those words. But something more since she began her journey as an actress. She did it when she was 13 years old, under the direction of Luis Lucia and with Fernando Rey. He began his film career in 1965 with one of the classic titles of Spanish filmography: Zampo and me, in which he performed songs by Augusto Algueró and Adolfo Waitzman. The impact of the film, far from the expectations of its producers, kept the actress away from film sets and took to the theater, by Miguel Narros, who discovered it during the filming of the film. Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Molière and Zorrilla filled five years of their careers on stage (and continue to do so), which they combined with recordings from the legendary Studio 1 of Spanish Television under the command of renowned directors such as Pilar Miró. In 1970 she returned to the world of cinema with Spanish in Paris, by Roberto Bodegas. From there she embarked on projects on the big screen such as:
- ‘Although the hormone dresses in silk’ (Vicente Escrivá)
- ‘Morbo’ and ‘To hell with love’ (Gonzalo Suárez)
- ‘Marriage separation’ (Angelino Fons)
- ‘Healthy married life’ (Roberto Bodegas)
- ‘The Love of Captain Brando’
- ‘Jo, dad’ (Jaime de Armiñán)
- ‘Torment’ (Pedro Olea)
- ‘The creature’ (Eloy de la Iglesia)
- ‘The request’ (Pilar Miró)
- ‘The dark story of cousin Montse’ (Jordi Cadena)
- ‘Emilia, stop and inn’
- ‘Sleepwalkers’ (José Luis García Sánchez)
His thing is not only cinema. At the end of the seventies, Ana Belén was one of the most prominent voices in music. Joan Manuel Serrat, Víctor Manuel, Luis Eduardo Aute, Joaquín Sabina, Pablo Milanés, Miguel Ríos, Carlos Mejía Godoy, Chico Buarque and Djavan are some of the music names he has worked with throughout his career. He began the eighties by sneaking into viewers’ homes through the well-known television series ‘Fortunata and Jacinta‘, where she gave life to the “pretty, young, tall woman” in Galdós’ work. She is followed by titles like Beehive and Bernarda Alba’s houseby Mario Camus; demons in the gardenby Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; Pharaoh’s court, divine words and The flight of the dove, by José Luis García Sánchez; either Be unfaithful and don’t look with whoby Fernando Trueba.
In 1991 she made her debut as a director adapting the work of Carmen Rico Godoy How to be a woman and not die trying, the highest-grossing Spanish film of that year starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Resines. In that same decade she starred in titles such as Rosa, rosaeby Fernando Colomo; The Turkish Passion and Libertarianby Vicente Aranda; Love seriously harms healthby Manuel Gómez Pereira, among others, and already in the 2000s he intervened in Old life of mine, directed by Héctor Olivera and where he shares a cast with Cecilia Roth; and Things that make life worthwhile, by Gómez Pereira. On November 25th it will premiere The queen of Spain, by Fernando Trueba. In recent years she has captured his work on film Oh, Carmen! (2018), the miniseries A perfect story and in several documentaries, such as Dear Photograms (2018), Concha Velasco: The total artist (2023) and The memory of cinema: A film about Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023).
Who are the Javis
Those who have not stopped in recent years are The Javis. Since the release of the musical The call, and its corresponding leap to the screen, have received several awards. In fact, the directors won two Goyas for this film in 2018, for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best New Director. A year before they triumphed with their series Paquita Salas, an idea that came to their minds while eating cooked food. “We were at home, we had just eaten a stew and Anna Castillo, Javi, Brays and I were taking a nap. We had been thinking about it for a while. What would my transvestite name be?, and my grandmother’s last name was Salas. Then we said ‘Francisco Salas’ because ‘Paquita Salas’,” they explained in an interview with Europa Press.
“Then we told him [a Brays], ‘put on these glasses, you are a representative’. ‘Anna, you are an actress who arrives and I play your assistant.’ We made an Instagram video and from there we said ‘this is funny, we should do a series’. We were going to do a series for Instagram, ‘sketches’ stuff. One thing led to another and so far. One day we were on Netflix,” they added. The truth is that their role as actors helped them in the development of the film. Because yes, before becoming directors, Los Javis had their appearances on television. Javier Calvo began to become popular thanks to his role as Fer in the series Physics or chemistryin addition to participating in series such as Laura’s mysteries either Love is foreverin which her partner Javier Ambrossi also previously participated, as in Tell me how it happened.
From the experience of some young performers, Paquita Salas was born, which shows the discriminations that happen behind the scenes and that do not come to light as Ambrossi explained at the time. “It’s true that when I did castings they didn’t catch me in some because He didn’t fit the role of the male lead because he was gay.. I even heard: ‘We like it a lot but it has a lot of feathers.'”
Calvo assured that he left an agency because they recommended that he not paint his nails or cut his hair “to give a more masculine appearance.” The project accumulated four nominations in the 2019 Feroz Awards. A year later they repeated the number, four. But this time Yolanda Ramos emerged as the winner in Best Supporting Actress in a Series. Four years later, her latest project, The Messiahhas triumphed at the Forqué with six awards, including best series. Now, they fulfill a dream: that of presenting the Goya Awards gala. But in its own way.
Source: Lasexta
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