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Octavi Pujades: “Writing this book helped me make peace with my father”

Looking for a way not to get bored during childbirth, Octavi Pujades and his father ended up entertaining half of Spain via Instagram.

The actor remembers days of imprisonment because the ‘The Bodyguard’ tour was canceled and she decided to stay and live with her father, whom she had been taking care of for years. Being a very old man with delicate health, they did not allow his grandchildren to visit, so he was locked up at home “he started messing around like I always do when I’m boredPujades tells us.

Thus began to post videos and photographs on Instagram in which his father and him recreated movie sceneslike ‘Back to the future’, and short texts like micro stories in which Pujades gave free rein to his creativity.

A book to reconcile with his father

These texts caught the attention of the Libros Cúpula publishing house, which saw the opportunity to do something bigger. A phone call that scared the actor: “I was a little scaredwhy lie “, he laughs,” because I have a lot of respect for literature. “

Nobody would say it now, but he tells us that as a child he did not play sports or travel a lot, so this only child of older parents he mainly enjoyed reading at home. Hence his love for letters was born.

Overcome the fear, the result is’It does not matter‘, And history book with much truth behind each of them who served Octavi Pujades to reconcile with the memory of his father, who died in February.

He says he felt very stuck when he started writing, but this book helped him “remember the good things about his father and make peace with him“. A” cathartic “experience, he confesses,” for him and his family “.

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