One of the most anticipated moments of December is the Christmas Lottery draw. His announcement has already become a tradition on Spanish television. The slogan of the spot this year is ‘There’s no greater chance than having us‘ and underlines that what is important beyond money is spending time with our closest people. Our hero discovers this sadly; A young woman, overwhelmed by the stress of daily life, makes a wish into the air: for the entire world to disappear. The problem is that he can’t hug his father until his wish comes true and everything has a happy ending.
playing girl Andrea ThurmanThe actor who developed most of his career in theater while giving life to his father Carlos OlallaOne of the great secondary characters of Spanish literature that we can see in TV series such as. ‘Time between stitches’, ‘Acacias, 38’ and lately ‘4 stars’.
45 years old unemployed
Although she has appeared in more than 150 productions in film and television, Olalla has had a distinctive career since she started acting in the acting world at a very old age. “I am an actor born out of unemployment”The translator admits to EL PERIÓDICO of the Prensa Ibérica group that he is 65 years old.
He says this because after working on it A British bank in LondonHe became regional manager in Catalonia and became an important structure, was the victim of a business restructuring and ended up “on the street” at the age of 45. “People lining up in my office to ask me for favors didn’t even pick up the phone from then on. It was a life lesson,” he recalls.
I’m tired of hearing this sentence “you are too old” Every time she applied for a position she had by then, she took advantage of her mother acting as a stand-in for some of the shoots to sign up for a shoot that would be hers. Sophie Marceau. “I loved the atmosphere. Since I had time and didn’t have a penny, I took part in all the advertising programs,” he admits.
Grandfather of the class
Until, thanks to his command of English, they hired him to respond with gestures. Christian Bale When he came to Barcelona to shoot the movie ‘Machinist’. “I was impressed and it became clear to me that this was what I wanted to do.” He enrolled in Nancy Tuñón and Jordi Oliver’s acting school, where he shared lessons with “chavalines” and was himself a “grandfather” to her.
“When we had to do a very emotional improvisation, they had to imagine how they would feel if this happened to them, but I just had to remember things that had happened to me in my life,” Olalla explains. Work as an actor did not take long to come: collaborations in TV series ‘Embassy’, ‘The other view’ and movies like this ’10 feet above the sky’ and ‘Rec 2’, theatre…
In 2015, he announced that he would leave the stage after a performance. Government will reduce cultural VATAt that time, this rate was 21%. “I refused to continue covering up the miseries of the profession so they would think theater was doing great while we were actually starving. I didn’t do it so no one would follow me, I just knew it was what I had to do.”
Read poetry in the subway
That’s when he came to order the subway after a bad streak, “like all his colleagues go through sometimes.” “One day I came home and there was nothing in the refrigerator. I told my mother, who lived with me, that the only thing I could think of was this: go to the subway and read poetry“In case anyone wants to give me something.”
Being a poet, he decided to accompany him. “I was ashamed, because I was invading other people’s space, and you have to be very respectful of that. But people understood the message when we said that their access to culture was being taken away, those of us who are professionally dedicated to this culture could not live with dignity,” he emphasizes.
He came out of the hole even though he reported it “precariousness and intermittency” continues his career and is now in his second season. ‘sent’ (SkyShowtime) and TVE-1 series ‘Operation Englishtown’In February, he published his seventh book, about the Republic children sent to Russia. He also serves as a director. Festival related to cinema with memory democratic.