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After several weeks of refried, ‘To see you again’ aired a new program last night. He starred in it Concha Velasco (Valladolid, 1939), who reviewed his artistic and personal life hand in hand with Carlos Sobera and your team.
The interview began with an anecdote. The guest asked the presenter how Patricia was doing. “Patricia is my wife,” he clarified. Sobera the audience on the set and the spectators. When Concha Velasco I worked in a program Telecinco –The chain was inaugurated in 1991–, a hostess gave her a bouquet of flowers at a certain moment. The actress said “thank you” when she received it. Was Patricia, the woman of Sobera, who years later represented Concha as “Patricia Gracias.”
From the outset, a video was shown in which the entire artistic career of the Valladolid woman was reviewed. “I liked growing old with such dignity,” said the protagonist as soon as the summary was finished.
The loves
Paco Marsó was the great love of his life. They were married in 1977, they separated in 2005 and they divorced in 2010, a few months before the theater producer and actor passed away. He assured that “the only illusion” that remains in his life “would be that Paco Marsó would appear to me again.” “The truth is that we were not happy, but I miss him very much,” he admitted.
He told how he fell in love with Marsó. “I liked it Sean Connery, very much. He was holding the towel like Sean Connery, ”she recalled. They married. On the same day of the wedding, at night, he disappeared. Naive, she called her mother-in-law: “He’s not coming,” she told him. “You’ll get used to it,” replied the actor’s mother. He never got used to it. But he endured.
It was faithful to him. To do this, he resisted temptations. As she spoke, images of the actress were shown on a giant screen presenting various programs from the house. In one of them, he danced with Omar Sharif. «Here I feel that I was about to separate myself from Marsó, of having cheated on Marsó with Omar ShariffHow well I proposed it to me ». “We have known each other since I was at his house,” he clarified, but did not offer more details about his unresolved sexual tension with the Egyptian actor born in 1932 and who died in 2015.
Sobera He asked if he was still in love with his ex. “My sex life ended with Paco Marsó,” he blurted out. The presenter insisted on the question. “If you were God, I would ask you to resurrect Paco Marsó,” answered the one who was a ye-ye girl.
The companions
He spoke of several of his co-stars in the movies.
Like Tony Leblanc, with which he starred ‘The girls of the Red Cross’ (1958). He became a close friend of his wife. “The day before he died we painted his toenails,” she recalled emotionally. She was her best friend.
There was also a special mention for Fernando Fernan Gomez, the actor who has kissed her best. “You had to get rid of it, because it was tremendous,” she said with amusement.
The surprise of the night was the presence of Hugo Aritmendiz, the actor with Down syndrome with whom he shared tables and protagonism in ‘Olivia and Eugenio’, where he was her son. The play premiered in 2015 and toured throughout Spain. But they had not seen each other for “years”, the boy specified before the reunion. “I want to tell her that I love her,” he said next. He was able to tell him at a meter and a half, because of the pandemic.
The movies
Favorite movie of Concha Velasco it’s one in which she doesn’t come out. Its titled ‘The red slippers’ and it is a British film from 1948. It is the story of a young dancer. “I wanted to be a dancer,” recalled Concha, who boasted of having achieved “honors” at the Madrid Dance Conservatory.
The dance left him for the cinema. With 15 years he debuted, as a secondary school, in ‘The Moorish Queen’. At age 19, the pitch came, with ‘The girls of the Red Cross’. It was the beginning of a great race that has had several high points.
One of them caught up with him with his interpretation of Saint Teresa of Jesus, in the 80’s. “It’s a wonderful performance, I wear it every year to see it and I blow kisses,” she told me funny about ‘Teresa of Jesus’ (1984), the television series in which he was directed by Josefina Molina.
The recognition of the entire profession for his long career came in 2012, when you received the Goya of Honor. They showed him the photo of her clutching the ‘big head’. But she flirtatiously only made one comment. «There I was fatter. I gained 11 kilos by quitting smoking.
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