Polmico. Willy Toledo: the communist actor who went from being liked by everyone to being disowned in his profession
Sorry. The hard end of the year for Alberto San Juan
Alberto San Juan is now in his fifties, but he has not lost a bit of the acting talent or sexual appeal (his boomer fans are legion) that made him famous two decades ago thanks to films like Airbag or The Other Side of the Bed. After years of lower profile but without stopping working, on Saturday he returned to the covers because he took the Goya to Best Supporting Actor for its role in Sentimental , the latest from Cesc Gay. But it was not the first statuette to win: in 2008 he won the Goya at Best Leading Actor with Under the stars , by Flix Viscarret.
Nor was it the first time that he used his speech of thanks to wedge against the system. On Saturday he said live when he received his award: “I have to say to the Spanish Socialist Workers Party that human rights cannot at the same time be market goods with which to speculate. Having a home is a very basic human right. “
San Juan charged against the current Government, alluding to the Negotiation of the Housing Law between PSOE and United We Can , which provides for the regularization of the rental price. In 2008, however, the Church was the target of his darts, the actor urged the “dissolution of that thing called episcopal conference.”
Your friend Willy Toledo
It is not new that San Juan is a man of the extreme left, although he has always gone unnoticed compared to his former partner, in the Animalario theater company , Willy Toledo, known for his controversial political ideas described as provocative: defending the Cuban revolution, for example, among other Latin American regimes. The actor was even prosecuted, although later acquitted, for blasphemies.
San Juan, like Andrs Lima (a playwright who was also part of Animalario), has spoken out in favor of feminism, communism and welcoming immigrants, but he has not gone as far as his friend Toledo, who has fired bullets at both the Civil Guard and former mayor Manuela Carmena thus blurring his career.
Today, Alberto remains intimate with Willy, whom he describes as “one of the most good-natured people” he has ever met. And like him, he has ended up unmarking from Podemos, a party to which he was linked as a result of the 15M movement. In fact, in 2015 he ran for the primaries to form the first Autonomous Citizen Council of Madrid in the candidacy of Miguel Urbn .
Today, however, things have changed. He has criticized the “personalist model” of Podemos and he no longer marries the purple ones, although he shares with them his idea of collective emancipation. “Podemos has been broken by the authoritarian idea of internal organization,” he said.
Alberto’s revolutionary conscience I was born in the shawl of the El Viso neighborhood of Madrid In which it grew up, today a luxurious neighborhood but originally, in 1925, a Cooperativa de Casas Econmicas. There he lived with his parents, the illustrator Mximo San Juan, now deceased, and the announcer and actress Pilar Guijarro Ortiz de Zrate , who still resides in the family home and from which he has inherited his love for Caamares (Cuenca). In the 80s at Rockola, his three brothers (two boys and a girl, today a costume designer) were punks, but he preferred to join a brigade heading to Cuba to collect bananas wearing a Che shirt. His activism started in the theater group of the Style school where he met “brother” Willy.
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San Juan (right), and his partners from Teatro del Barrio, among them the mother of his children, Paloma (with a red sweater). BERNARDO DIAZ
San Juan returned from Cuba and did journalism, worked at Diario 16 and went through Cristina Rota’s school. Then came fame and then the theater. First in Animalario and now in Teatro del Barrio (Lavapis) with works of political commitment that have been on the verge of canceling it for “offensive”, as Mundo Obrero. Today rolls The fourth passenger with Lex of the Church , for that reason it does not attend LOC. Not stop.
Personally has two children, Max and Mateo, with the architect Paloma Domnguez , a partner at the Teatro del Barrio and with whom she lives in El Rastro. Years ago he had an affair with AlbaMolina, daughter of Lole and Manuel, and was married to the Chilean producer Karen del Ro. In everything he has always been successful.
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