Fernando Albizu: “The awards are recognition, but they don’t mean you’re better than anyone else”

This Saturday, February 12, the Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy will be awarded in Valencia, in a gala that the actor Fernando Albizu (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1963) intends to live “calmly and enjoying his companions”.

Albizu will be one of the night’s nominees, in his case in the category of best supporting actor for his portrayal of Román, the timid security guard at the Blanco scales in “The Good Boss” by director Fernando León de Aranoa, the most nominated in the history of awards with twenty award options.

We have spoken with Albizu.

Zorionak for the nomination, Fernando. How did you find out you were nominated? Did you expect it?

Mila esker. I found out through the whatsapps that they came congratulating me.

The first was Lander Otaola, I thought I had just seen the movie, but later David Pérez Sañudo congratulated me again and I asked him; then i found out.

I was very excited. I didn’t expect it at all.

Fernando Albizu in ‘The Good Boss’

You have already been nominated for a Goya in 2009 for “Gordos”, a film that also brought you the Actors’ Union award. What relationship do you have with the awards and what importance do you give them?

Awards are recognition of your work, and that’s always good, but it doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone else. There are people who stay on the road, who surely deserve it too. But there is a quota…

The awards are a celebration and a pain, because you have to look for a model… And with my size, it’s complicated.

How do you expect to experience the night of February 12?

Calmly and enjoying the companions.

You share a nomination, in addition to Urko Olazabal for “Maixabel”, with your film partners Celso Bugallo and Manolo Solo, and are also nominated for the cast of “El Buen Patron” Javier Bardem (leading actor), Sonia Almarcha (supporting actress) , Óscar de la Fuente and Tarik Rmili (newcomer actors) and Almudena Amor (newcomer actress). What is the reason, in your opinion, for the undeniable success of a large part of its actors and actresses?

That is the work of Fernando Leon de Aranoa; of having the characters so clear, of having written a round script and of the calm with which he shoots.

Make work comfortable, fun and very concrete. When the director knows what he wants, he gives the actor a lot of security.

Your character, Roman, is one of the film’s strongest and most comical points. What did you think when you read the script?

At the first reading, I realized that we had something very powerful on our hands.

Comedy is always worked from the truth and from the burden of the characters. In Roman’s case, it is the possibility of being fired while he empathizes with the “enemy” of the boss.

Fernando Albizu

Do you have a project in hand that you can tell us something about?

There are a couple of things on the table, but not yet signed.

Confirmed, the second season of “xHoxB” on HBO, by Manuela Burló Moreno.

Basque cinema has recently been awarded at the Goyas through, among others, “Ane”, in which you participate and is directed by David Pérez Sañudo, with whom you have collaborated for a long time. What diagnosis do you make from your position of the state of Basque cinema?

I believe that Basque cinema is full of talent and professionalism, and if politicians don’t get involved in it, it will go far.

Politics and culture, the further one from the other, the better.

What films have caught your attention lately, whether or not they are nominated for the Goya?

I prefer “Delicious” by Eric Besnard, which is the last one I’ve seen.