He broke with the cinema in 2005 with The method, And since then, Carmelo Gómez has lived “happily and calmly” on stage, a task that he combines with teaching. “The theater rejuvenates me, turns me into a young being, less and less attached to the search for security that this time imposes on you,” he says.
“The theater is very necessary to live, it is a living art, it is physical, it is a metaphor,” says the interpreter, while ensuring that the theater “makes the word flesh and imposes the imagination to make associations.”
If the theater is missing, “something very important is missing, it is an act of generosity on the part of the public,” adds Gómez (Sahagún, León, 1962) who will premiere tomorrow at La Abadía, in Madrid, A vueltas con Lorca.
A team effort directed by Emi Ekai, with the music of Mikhail Studyonov; “It is a poetic recital, a dance between love and death with verses by Lorca.”
“Lorca is inexhaustible, he has many looks, many edges and we have found one,” says the actor who recognizes that the texts of the poet from Granada “are full of suggestions.”
Gómez arrived at the theater at the hands of Miguel Narros and, paraphrasing Lorca, points out that this world is “a school of tears and laughter, a free platform where man can expose old and ancient morals, and explain eternal norms of the heart and the feeling ».
During this poetic party, which will be in Madrid until November 28, Carmelo Gómez exposes himself to the public “without knowing how to dance or sing”, it is simple theater, closeness, “it is poetry adapted to a dramaturgy”, he clarifies.
Known as a commitment actor, he has worked with Pilar Miró, Julio Medem or Imanol Uribe. “The cinema is my home, I was there for a long time and I was comfortable,” emphasizes the actor, who has received the National Film Award in 1995 and two Goyas – best leading actor for Days counted, and cast by The method-.
He would like to return to the big screen, but only from time to time, “to do something that I feel like doing, but not dedicate myself to it,” clarifies the actor, who assures that bad experiences led him to take a step back and get away from the cameras .
He acknowledges that leaving the cinema was “a tough decision”, but you have to adapt to the new times, “that’s where this project arises that reconciles me with this job.”
He believes that Lorca connects with today’s society, “he is modern, a universal poet, who had nothing to do with politics, he was an Andalusian gentleman with a great involvement with poverty,” he explains.
“Of all the demands that now exist, Lorca would have felt comfortable claiming the rights of women, that cry of freedom so present in his feminine universe,” he concludes.
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