Free verse of the Spanish acting peasant, Victoria April He has spent his entire career giving the note and marking territory. Now he has done it in light of the pandemic and vaccines, which he has questioned at the Feroz Awards, but in the past he has already given away stories, phrases and headlines for the controversy.
As if from a movie Almodovar It will be the life of Victoria Merida Rojas (this is her real name) began to walk marked by drama. She was born in Madrid on July 4, 1959 and grew up in a home made up of her mother (a nurse by profession), her grandmother and her brother, but no father. They told her that he had died, but ended up confessing that he had left the family home and had remarried shortly after she was born. He tried to find him, but he died before finding him.
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DANCER BEFORE ACTRESS
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His first vocation was not dramaturgy, but ballet. He began to study it at the age of eight, came to dance at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and was about to go to Germany to perfect his technique, but the family economy could not afford it. One day, her dance teacher told her that her husband was looking for a teenage girl for a movie. He performed and made his film debut. Was 14 years old.
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His life has been conditioned by several decisions that seem inconsequential, but which ended up marking his path. Choosing your stage name is one of them. At the production company of her first film, they asked her how she wanted to be known. When in doubt, the actress asked her mother: “What saint is celebrated today?” Her mother did not hear her well and replied: “Today is April 23”. Had just been born Victoria Abril.
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The general public put a face to him in the popular television contest ‘Un, dos, tres’, where she was a stewardess between 1976 and 1978 before presenting the magazine ‘625 línea’ and appearing in the TV series ‘La barraca’. At 20 she was already a celebrity, but her cathodic past is not what makes her most proud. She prefers to remember that in those years, while doing television, she also shot half a dozen movies. Among others, ‘The great adventure of Robin and Marian’ with Sean Connery Y Audrey Hepburn.
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Despite having participated in ‘The Law of Desire’, ‘Tie me up!’, ‘Far heels’ and ‘Kika’, she has never considered herself an ‘Almodóvar girl’. She is more of Vicente Aranda, under whose orders she shot 13 films and whom she always revered as the father she never had. It was he who offered him, at the age of 17, his first important role: that of a transsexual teenager in ‘Sex change’. “It was my beacon,” he said of the filmmaker after his death.
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Before coming of age, she had married a Chilean footballer who was twice her age and with whom she ended up as the rosary of dawn. At 20 she fled to Paris in love with the filmmaker Gérard de Battista, with whom he had his only two children: Martin Y Felix. That relationship lasted a decade and a half. For 17 years, her heart has been occupied by another man, who the actress has managed to keep in the background.
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Abril has lived in Paris since the early 1980s. Although she left for love, she has managed to carve out a solid acting career there. He has worked with the main French filmmakers, has put his name on the credit titles of important local productions and the popular television series ‘Clem’ has made her a celebrity. But don’t wait for it in America. He tried his luck in the movie mecca once, but he held out for a week. That is not your rhythm. “Hollywood gives me heartburn,” he says.
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MY DEAR (AND HATED) SPAIN
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In the last 30 years, Victoria April He has barely shot a movie in Spain for five years. Nothing to do with his promiscuous French production. He never misses the chance to remember that he would like to work more here, “but Spanish cinema happens a lot from me,” he often repeats. In France, he assures, he finds something that Spain does not give him: “There they respect the private lives of artists,” he says of the ‘paparazzi’ on this side of the Pyrenees.
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BORN TO CALL ATTENTION
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Those who know her well are not surprised that she has now declared herself a denier of the pandemic and against vaccines, as she has affirmed when receiving the Feroz Award for her career. It is not the first time Victoria April she gives the note, either for her statements – she has confessed herself anarchist, zen, homeopathic and “always ready to give the ass” – as for the surprising ‘looks’ with which she usually appears in the high pompadour saraos. “You can’t go to the red carpet normally. I also put a bit of humor on it,” he argued.
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MOCATRIZ, BUT ABOVE ALL ACTRESS
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He has walked the runway wearing the rags of his dear friend Jean paul Gaultier and he has recorded two bossa nova albums that he later sang in half a thousand concerts. But if there is something that keeps it alive, it is interpretation. He has shot more than 60 feature films, has a Silver Bear, two Silver Shells and a Goya, after being the most nominated actress in the history of those awards. He says that he is dying to shoot his next film, but warns: “I have not done a casting in my life, nor am I going to do it. If you want me to make your film, do not put me a test.”
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