“Juan Diego, the real one.” These are the words of the director and actor Juan Diego Botto when remembering his friend and colleague Juan Diego, who died this Thursday at the age of 79. Thus he acknowledges that he always referred to him.
The Goya as leading actor came late, many colleagues agree on it. And when he received it, in 2007 for his role in the movie ‘Vete de mi’, his first words were to share the credit with his friend Juan Diego Botto. Very moved, Botto has recalled his speech in an interview on Ser.
“Juan was not a companion for many, Juan was a place to get to. It was the horizon that is always there and that one yearns for and to what you say maybe tomorrow I’ll get so far, and the horizon moved a little more and more”, he explains excitedly. “I don’t know if any of us will ever reach his size, and I’m not just saying as an actor but as a person , to his greatness, to his stature as a person,” he adds.
Y remember the commitment and generosity of the veteran actor throughout his entire career. An example? With the famous actors’ strike of 1975, “at the edge of the dictatorship, a whole generation fought risking a lot to put an end to that dark age. Then with democracy they wanted a fuller democracy, and they fought to widen it for everyone. The debt What we have with them is enormous. I feel that way. If they bet so much and gave us so much, the minimum is to try to live up to it and to reciprocate, “claims Botto.
In ‘Vete de mi’ they played a father and a sonbut also in reality they have often confused that kinship. Botto never corrects them. “Nothing happened to me again, I was with my daughter. She looked at me strangely and said: ‘but if your father is not an actor, why haven’t you corrected him?’ confuse me with your son”.
Also remember that not long ago they talked on WhatsApp. “One of those conversations at times, with one message, after another… I noticed him tired.” Now Botto confesses that he has stayed inside that ‘thing’ of not having insisted more to see him.
Source: Lasexta
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