I personally met Javier Bódalo on the set of Faraday (2013, directed by Norberto Ramos del Val), a very low-budget film starring the same Javier Bódalo who was interviewed last week in Code 10 where he explained that in real life he was a victim of the same harassment that his character suffered in the series The Serranos.
In Faraday He was part of the team, something unusual among actors. In the process of this film there were difficult moments – as in all films – but also a camp atmosphere between friends. Some of the things Bódalo told in Code 10 He told us about them during these months, and also about others that were not disclosed. I’m going to mention something that you didn’t say or plan in the interview: Which screenwriter/producer finds it funny that there is a character who is mistreated by the protagonists? What kind of person writes this kind of scene as part of a family series? Well I tell you; a madman Without further ado.
I can tell you, these people will not hire me, nor do I have the desire to work with people like that. Don’t tell me there were other times, because they weren’t. The fact that the director of Javier Bódalo’s school was a coward is not a product of “other times”. That his colleagues were bastards was not a thing of “other times” or that they were “children” (who were already teenagers). It was all the product of a system that allowed and turned a blind eye to these things. There will always be people who, whether through the cowardly mockery of anonymity (how I like that expression; how emphatic) or through the most resounding you at you, will blurt out “it’s just that now we’re offended by everything”. What poor excuses those who were executioners have and with what indolence they free them.
It bothered me to hear one of the “jokes” told about Bódalo in the series, later reproduced in real life. This same joke (putting a toilet brush in your mouth) appears, with a different approach, in Elementary particlesthe novel by Michel Houellebecq.
In recent weeks, we have witnessed inhumane actions committed in half a dozen schools, with fatal victims (Sandra Peña and Dani Quintana, the most recent and in the media) or surviving victims in life, but not in spirit (the wounds of the intimidation they don’t close). We don’t need more sadists or mediocre people. We need more people like Bódalo, like him and like all those who speak, fight and don’t remain silent.