At almost 73 years old, Luisa Gavasa is experiencing one of her best moments at the professional level. Zaragozaan nominated for best supporting actress goya With his work in the movie ‘The Master Who Promised the Sea’ (He was also nominated for the Feroz and CEC awards for this role), and his short film ‘Paris 70’ starring Dani Feixas has 93 national and international awards.
Moreover, his short-term future is full of projects. “I’ll do a play in the summer, shoot another movie, and then Paris 70 will be a feature film… I have commitments until 2026, so I can only be grateful for life and continue to enjoy the here and now. “I’m in a wonderful moment,” he emphasizes, his professional success now evidently reaching full interpretive maturity.
He was in Aragonese Paula Ortiz’s second film, ‘The Bride’. Her role as Lorca’s mother earned her the Goya (also Feroz) award for best supporting actress in 2016, and as she admits, it changed her life: ““This role and this award opened the doors of cinema to me, and that’s something I will always be grateful to Paula for.”.
Now his great work on ‘The Master Who Promised the Sea’ may open them up even more. “He is a very sweet character, but I never thought that they would nominate me for Feroz or Fırat. goya or anything for that matter. “It’s a small role and there are some great actors in the category this year, so it was a big surprise.” He’s right because The competition will be quite tough in this edition. In addition to Gavasa, Ane Gabarain and Itziar Lazkano are competing for the ‘20,000 species of bees’ award, while Clara Segura is competing for ‘Creatura’ and Ana Torrent is competing for Víctor Erice’s new movie ‘Cerrar los ojos’.
“We are all strong and mature women with very relevant roles, so I think I don’t have the same opportunities as in 2015. Moreover, Erice’s return has created a very conducive environment, thanks to the great job Ana has done,” says Gavasa. . .
Importance of awards
So, as cliché as it sounds, being nominated is already a reward in itself for the woman from Zaragoza: “Recognition also depends a lot on when you get caught. If you’re 25, you give them a bigger reward. It’s more valuable than 65, but that’s It doesn’t mean they aren’t important, but it does mean you perceive it differently.
In ‘The Master Who Promised the Sea’, Gavasa plays Charo, the wife of Antoni Benaiges. A republican professor who implemented a pioneering and revolutionary teaching method for the time in the early 1930s. Pointing out that the film should be shown in all high schools, the actor summarizes: “The film is a tribute to all the teachers who wanted to educate people and died for this cause”: “Young people do not know much about what happens after a civilian attack, war and how the victors behave.”
With great directors
For all these reasons, Gavasa is aware that this role has become one of his favorites, along with his performance in ‘The Bride’, which helped him develop his career. Actually, After winning the Goya award in 2016, he worked under relevant directors such as Agustí Villaronga, Javier Fesser, Julio Medem and José Luis Garci.. “That’s why I say I’m so grateful for this role, because up until then I’d been acting mostly in television and not so many films,” he admits.
And although he has spent almost all of his life focusing on acting, especially theatre, Gavasa was not known to the public until he participated in the TV series ‘Amar en tiempo revueltos’.The series in which she played Doña Loreto for 202 episodes. She had previously appeared sporadically in TV series such as ‘Farmacia de Guardia’ or ‘El Comisario’ and had small roles in cinema, such as playing a nun in Almodóvar’s film (“Entre tinieblas”).
Although his unconditional love has always been on stage, he has recently worked in TV series such as ‘The Minister of Time’ or ‘The Cable Girls’. Gavasa started at the Zaragoza university theater with his “great teacher” Mariano Cariñena: “He was a great director and an extraordinary person, and I made my first stage appearance with him. I was in Theater Manager and I was 22 years old.”