Zaida is a somewhat nerdy girl who lives with her stepfather in a poor neighborhood. His queer neighbor Jonás also spends his days there, a lonely old man who takes refuge in his imaginary world, believing that his apartment is a spaceship: Orion. He is believed to be on Kepler, a strange and distant planet, and he is a NASA astronaut. Karra Elejalde features this bizarre galactic Quixote in Kepler Sexto B by Alejandro Suárez Lozano, presented at the Málaga Premiere yesterday.
How do you get the Kepler Sexto B?
I loved the scenario, the world created by Alejandro Suárez Lozano, where society consists of evil aliens. The film invites us to reflect on the two most vulnerable segments of humankind: children and the elderly. Now there are children who commit suicide because of bullying because they look ugly or anorexic because they are being abused or mistreated. And the elderly, not to mention those who live completely alone, live in a more problematic world for them due to too much computing. My character is a neglected man who lives in poverty and works in a planetarium since he was a teenager, who collects refrigerators and garbage to fulfill a fantasy he had when he was a mechanic: becoming an astronaut. That is, everything that is hostile to him is foreign.
Who is it for him?aliens bad”?
Those with water, electricity, eliminating social benefits, coming from the Treasury… All these people are dirty and bloody aliens, except for the neighbors stuck in the swamp. But he finds a new neighbor, a girl, which makes him think about what he needs. The girl needs a grandfather, but also a father, and this helps her cope with the outside world, that hostile world. Both are fed back.
This is your special Don Quixote de la Mancha, isn’t it?
Clear. The world for him is full of giants, his enemies are mills. Kepler Sexto B also praises The Little Prince, sci-fi movies like Alien, Orwell’s literature… And there’s a lot of social criticism, but it’s so well hidden that it’s a fable, a fantasy behind a fantasy. sad poetics
The film also reflects on the breakdown of the family and its consequences.
These characters are not looked after as they should: the girl has no mother, her stepdad is not acting like a stepfather, and my character is an old man with no one to love her. It is a reflection of one of the many aspects that society has, three very beautiful characters.
becoming a grandpa Spanish cinemaIn that fantastic character that Paco Isbert worked in his time, Fernando Fernan Gomez…
They make me older than I really am, yes, they’ve been giving me grandparents lately. But if they made up me in the Eight Basque surname, which is older and Vasil. Then people see me on the street and say I’m younger than in the movies.
He shares the limelight with Daniela Pezzotti of Kepler Sexto B, his partner in this bizarre space travel. He’s just getting started and you already have a proven career. How was the collaboration between the two?
There was very good chemistry between the two. It either exists or it doesn’t, and it has been in this state. He immediately trusted me, let him get advice, and I his.
You’re an actor with a long history on your resume with films like Airbag, Dead Mother, Butterfly Wings, While The War Continues or Eight Basque Surnames. It’s hard to find another active Spanish actor with something similar.
I’ve always loved getting into everything, playing all the styles I can. I’ve become more popular with comedy, something I’ve always claimed to be because it’s so much harder to do, so much more please. A comedy never gets an Oscar or a Goya.