“I’m Cancer, so I have a romantic touch,” Carlos Iglesias confesses, “even though my wife says I’m not. The truth is that, more than romantic, I’m affectionate. “We are a couple with a new relationship, but we are not nerds.” wounds, he realizes by thinking of entertaining the viewer while giving him a message to ponder, he did not stay to enjoy the fame and the money earned on television, but he risked it by directing films with personal projects: “I, who myself experienced emigration and spent my childhood in Switzerland, could not remain silent when I saw how the Spaniards began to mistreat those who came in search of a better life. We are a country of emigrants, we cannot forget that. With “The Bullet”, a “thriller” based on the true story of two brothers who go to Russia to recover the body of their aunt, a Blue Division nurse who died during World War II, Carlos once again shows his romantic side by confessing his intentions: “I would like very conservative people to also get excited about the film, because I don’t want to fall into the trap of a simplistic story of good guys and bad guys. I think it’s important that memory history helps to lick everyone’s mind. When I was little, German television always broadcast documentaries about Nazism because it was their way of not forgetting the horror of a society that defends freedom But we must have done something wrong when young people believe that they lived better under the dictatorship In its cast, “La bala” counts among others Silvia Marsó and Carlos Hipólito, but its protagonist is Iglesias himself: “Sometimes, se. directing yourself is easier than it seems because there are no differences of opinion in the team. In my case, the writer, director and actor are in agreement,” he jokes. But he also has at his disposal Eloísa Vargas, his wife, and Paula Iglesias, his daughter. There, things change: “Confidence is what she has, that ultimately the actresses take liberties that they wouldn’t have with another director.” The advantage is that he knows them so well that he knows how to get the best out of them: “When I write, I already know how they speak, I can use their language so that everything fits better.” He met his wife at theater school: “She is my partner, my friend. I love her and she loves me. my wife sometimes tells me that it’s too much. For my part, I lack more ability to accept people’s irony. But humor will not be his only legacy. It was Heloísa who, when the time came, made the decision to become parents: “I hadn’t thought about it and I didn’t know how to deal with it, but that turned out to be easy thanks to her. In addition, my two children arrived with bread under their arms in the form of series or television programs. When Paula said to him: “Dad, I want to be an actress”, Carlos’ world fell on him: “We all want security for our children, for them to have a better life, and I know the ups and downs of this profession”. happened one day, while watching television, he discovered his daughter in a pizza commercial: “I realized that I had no right to deny her the realization of her dream. “She is very good, she has an innate intuition, so I decided that my duty was to support her in everything.” The emoji he uses the most: The one of the doll covering her face as if she were ashamed. many connotations. He was taking a “selfie” with: I would have liked to have one with Fernando Fernán-Gómez, but that had not been done before A “Earth, swallow me” moment: during a funeral wake, referring to the deceased, the widow commented: “How good he was!” and I replied that “I wouldn’t be so sorry if he died.” but believing that it was silent. A sacrifice for glory: spending 90% of my summers away from the Spanish beaches to be able to swim quietly without being recognized. The good thing is that it allowed me to travel a lot and see the world. Something not to be missed in your daily life: watching films. At noon, one from the West. His first kiss: it was with a Brazilian, the daughter of friends in Switzerland. I was about seven. We steal the kiss in the room. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but time romanticizes this memory. You’re afraid of: Suffering, mental deterioration, physical pain. I guess I don’t want to have a bad time: in Schwellbrunn, in the beautiful canton of Outer Appenzell, in Switzerland. devoting myself to what I love. My friends envy me because my job and my vocation allow me to do so. Working on this gives me life! Little Carlos: As he was an only child, he was a bit spoiled, especially for my aunt and my grandparents. same time. But he was very sociable, even despite the language, a barrier that I overcame to start telling stories that captivated my friends. When I returned to Spain, I had a terrible time at school because of spelling mistakes and I discovered that the priests hit the children. I had never seen that before.
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