For MDO / EP
The theater of the Galileo cultural center, in the Madrid neighborhood of Chamberí, is from this Wednesday the Quique San Francisco Theater after the name change in tribute to the actor who died on March 1 at 65 years of age.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the Culture delegate, Andrea Levy, as well as relatives of the actor and fellow professionals such as María Barranco, Micky Molina and Jorge Sanz were present at the tribute and inauguration of the new name. . All of them have gathered at the gates of this theater.
The delegate of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Consistory, Andrea Levy, has asserted that San Francisco “is part of the best of those Spanish supporting actors” who “have entered on the small screen, on the big screen and before meeting them in person was already known for their overwhelming personality “.
He highlighted that the actor “became known in emblematic series such as ‘Colegio Mayor'”, and that he is part of the history of this country and its cinema. At this point he has made mention of the works of Quique San Francisco in the so-called quinqui cinema by the hand of Eloy de la Iglesia in films such as ‘El Pico’ or ‘Colegas’ or in ‘Amanece que no es poco’, by José Luis String.
“He was an actor of race, an actor with a lot of personality. There is some emblematic phrase of Quique San Francisco, and his blood sausages with which he made us laugh will be remembered on the stage,” he concluded.
Then the presenter and personal friend of San Francisco Pablo Motos took the floor, who joked that the event “instead of a theater, I would have preferred a bar.” “He was a natural artist, sometimes despite himself. One day I told him how well you handle silences, and he told me they are not silences, I just don’t remember what’s coming,” he announced.
He also pointed out that Motos “invented some rules that were the ones that suited him” and not all those rules “were legal.” “Enrique deserves this and more. None of us would have been able to live like San Francisco; it takes a lot of art to live in that limit”, he has launched in a row.
Finally, Motos has indicated that “a cultured country has to take care of its artists”, since “it is an act of poetic justice”. “It will be an honor to come to this theater and on the way out have a beer to the health of Enrique San Francisco,” he concluded.
The last to intervene from the stage of the courtyard of the Galileo cultural center has been the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who has regretted that the tributes are made “once the person has died.” “At the very least, we repair the injustice by giving it the name of this theater,” he stressed.
He has vindicated his “undoubted talent”, with an “extensive career”, as well as his attachment to the capital and especially to his neighborhood, Chamberí. “He showed that life is not linear, that it has high and low moments … he always had the joy of moving on. Let’s enjoy his extensive work and apply that phrase he said in an advertisement, the amazing miracle it is to live”, it is finished.
The ‘no’ of the PSOE
The proposal for this new nomenclature came from the district councilor-president, Javier Ramírez, and had the support of Cs, PP and Vox in the plenary session of this district, while Más Madrid abstained and the socialists voted against.
Socialist sources have told Europa Press that they voted against because they are not in favor of “removing a name to put another that is also consolidated and accepted in the district, and that neighbors and workers did not want to change”, but that they have “nothing in against “the actor.
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