Dozens of admirers of Juan Diego, many with white and red flowers, and the actor Juan Echanove have been some of the first to attend the burning chapel installed in the main hall of the Spanish Theater to pay a final tribute to the Sevillian actor who died this Thursday at the age of 79.
The coffin arrived at the theater at 10:00 in the morning from the San Isidro Funeral Home, where yesterday it was seen off by relatives and colleagues from its closest environment, and it was installed on the stage where Images of the actor were projected continuously.
At 10:30 the doors opened and his followers, who had been queuing for some time, were able to start entering.
Surrounding the coffin, crowns sent by the Almodóvar brothers, with whom he worked on ‘Jamón, Jamón’, by his colleagues from ‘Los Hombres de Paco’, the Fundación Abogados de Atocha, his hometown, Bormujos (Seville) or AISGE, among others.
The actor Juan Echanove, one of his closest friends, he highlighted Juan Diego’s “dignity”, his “class consciousness” and his way of interpreting putting “a mirror to life” so that others could understand what is happening.
“Every thing I see, what I touch, the air I breathe and especially these days the memory is so vivid that his movies are worthless to me“said a very excited Echanove.
“I’m an actor thanks to Juan Diego,” he stressed, “thanks to that I live and now that he’s gone, that’s why I live and I will continue entering theaters with the dignity that he taught me“.
Another of the well-known faces that has come there has been the actor Javier Cámara who has highlighted that Juan Diego lived his life “in a very powerful way, especially his profession” and was a “very brilliant” actor, but also an “incredible and fascinating” person, as evidenced by the “affection” that people show in his funeral chapel.
Chamber, who shared a professional representative with Juan Diego, I knew “that he was pachucho, but not that he was going to be so fast”, he pointed out. Diego was a member of that family of actors from the sixties “that is ending”, and that “has marked” several generations of national performers. “He shone alongside legendary people, he is the son of those legends, we are the grandchildren, and now we have to remain orphans and fulfill his legacy,” he added.
His son, Adam Ruiz, has appreciated the respectful coverage of the media informing the whole world“those who admired him and those who didn’t so much” and assured that he would have liked this tribute at the Spanish Theater because he was “a person very attached to his profession”.
“We are very proud of my father’s career, as a professional and as a citizen,” he said.
Source: Lasexta
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