If they had to explain to someone who doesn’t know who they are Andrew Pajares, perhaps they could start by telling him that he is ‘the greatest Swedish conqueror in the Mediterranean’, or add that it is ‘a lot of fun to sin’.
Impossible not to relate him to his fellow sinner, Fernando Extended. Both devastated their sense of humor during the decade of uncovering. Between the 70s and 80s, his films were successful at the box office.
The actor defends that his feature films “they weren’t sexist”, but “funny”. The actor thus defends himself from the criticism towards the machismo that many see in his characters of the time. Spain was abandoning the Franco regime and Pajares, he says, worked to make people laugh.
Its purpose was to make humor despite censorship. Comedian, actor, singer… Pajares was a multifaceted phenomenon that is now covered in ‘Pajares & CIA’, the documentary that premieres this Sunday on ATRESplayer PREMIUM.
It was precisely the premiere of ‘Oh, Carmela!‘ in 1990 the one that exalted him before the critics. It went from a frivolous cinema to more important dramas. When he received the Goya for best actor in 1991, he claimed to feel “like a beginner.” An eternal beginner who, however, is the history of Spanish cinema.
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