Pastor Vega: “For the first time, I enjoy living alone” | Culture

With such a sonorous name, such a warm voice and such a round face, Pastora Vega is an unmistakable presence for anyone who has seen her mature on stage since her debut, very young, in the early eighties. Today, Vega: mature, courteous and elegant, receives in the environment of the Infanta Isabel Theater, in Madrid, from where, the day after the interview, the work is created Kind of guysin which she plays the lifelong wife of a politician, played by Pablo Carbonell, in the middle of an electoral campaign. The secrets revealed during the work put the protagonist couple on the ground, under the certainties of the butacas court. You can’t wait to see the audience’s reaction.

She was interviewed in 2006, 20 years ago, along with other actresses of her generation who broke boundaries. cross the desert of 40 years Can you help me?

Mother my friend, of course I agree: 20 years have passed at an impressive speed. I thought I was much older at 46 and now I’m 65. So, I had been a mother for 41 years after becoming a mother for the first time at 26, but I hadn’t been separated from Manu (Imanol Arias, from whom she separated in 2009), and I was wondering if they were starting to run out of papers. Sometimes I have to remember how old I am and everything I’ve been through, everything I’ve loved, suffered, to get here.

At 41, she was mother mayor. Today is the age when many women have their first wife. This has also changed.

We are on another planet, in that sense. As a child, how do you take care of an embarrassed woman. In general, everything has changed for good, because we also live longer and can do more things later. Everything is being reconfigured.

Your ex-husband, Imanol Ariasalso represents these days, with Maria Barrancoa couple’s comedy in Madrid. Cosmic causality?

It was very curious. María and I are the same age, and Pablo Carbonell, who is my husband, and she has been a close friend since they were young. Something must mean all of this. Seeing immediately that of women over 65, we can tell women’s stories in the first person motivates me and gives me a lot of hope.

What does it suggest that the stories of mature couples attract audiences to the theater today?

It’s just that I believe that these are subjects that really matter and that affect us. What does torque mean as a system? Because it turns out that, he thinks, until now it was considered the only system for the well-being of those who grow up, as a passport to happiness or as a path to stability, if it goes down by leaps and bounds.

Usted, who has had several long pairs, will know how to refrain from speaking.

I have always lived, sometimes always, for 14 years, in a relationship or with the illusion of a relationship. With the idea of ​​romantic love still in my life, in one form or another. By hypothesis, you are not the same as a novice at 14 years old, who is 20 years old, who is 25 years old or 40 years old. But, for the first time in my life, I am enjoying living alone. And what I can tell you is that evil told us what it was.

How did you tell us?

Like hell, because a single woman was always suspicious. If you are single, you don’t have a husband, you don’t have a relationship, you have something wrong, you think about it and you decide to talk to the guy. Yes, in my experience, it’s quite the opposite. When you are truly well, at peace with your loves, your affections, your family, your work, with the things you love to do and without having to depend on another person or worry or see what happens with a stable relationship, you are happy. On the ground, they move on to women our age. There are also many people in their 30s and 40s who realize that it is better to be alone and happy with someone who is poorly accompanied.

On the other hand, there are those who denigrate them by calling them “Charos” and accusing them of a supposed “selfishness” of not having children or a fixed relationship.

Luckily, I surround myself with people who aren’t like that, but I see them in the middle. And yes, there is a huge threat of a return to situations of machismo and enormous inequality which worries me.

You need adult males. How do you see them?

Sons of young men: one is often young and the other a young man, who knows that he belongs to a gender to be reconfigured. Even men closest to my age also report and review. But the reactionary tendencies of the world, led by Señor Trump, who calls a journalist stupid for doing his job, are very dangerous and gaining ground. So, on the one hand, I see that young women have, in theory, more sisterhood and equality than before, but on the other hand, as these trends reassert themselves, it becomes more complicated, people are poorer.

How would you measure your state of mind at this time in your life?

Grateful. I am very grateful for my life. I’m enjoying this moment a lot, because I’m old and I’m very aware of it, even though I feel like I did it 30 or 40 years ago, but I want to enjoy it, because time passes like a tsunami and I don’t want to reach 75 without having to do these things, because you don’t know what can happen to you. I want to enjoy this decade and my work, which makes me happier than ever.

How does a veteran live on the eve of his debut?

Tomorrow, just before I start, something very bad will happen to me, and it will never change. But, do you know? My career has been one step at a time, but lately it has felt like a chore. Our office is more like life, so if you have lived intensely, in every sense of the word, outside the office and rehearsals and rehearsals, the important thing is to have keys to play inside. An actor, when he is in good conditions, is better when he is wiser and when he has more means of communicating, with more knowledge and creativity. Now I’m feeling this way like never before.

Did I suffer there, she’s my best actress?

Stinks yes. Life is not like a grifo, who if he goes to the right to sell cold water and if he goes to the left, hirviendo. It is difficult to maintain balance. I suffered losses, like my father, but what hurt me the most were the disappointments with people who believed that this was somehow what they wanted and in the end betrayed you.

Does the lack of love get worse with age?

Yes, because as young people we come and go naturally in our lives. But, at 55 or 60, you think you know what you want and who you want with, and so does the other person who is with you. So when disenchantment comes, it’s very hard. I have a large blood family and a large family of wonderful friends. But, as mayor, when there is a small feeling of betrayal, of loss, it becomes fatal. Much worse than when you were young. But I insist, I’m lucky. There’s nothing really wrong with my life. For others, life goes backwards. Not me.

How long does it take to keep this space free of canes?

Pues mira, it’s unazo. It takes me every 15 days to be at the hair salon during the seat and tiara. I dreamed of leaving him for white. I have friends who say: I struggle with this service, and they are divine, but it’s a shame for me. For now, it’s a decision I’m holding off on for the moment.

Why are we stuck with our own demands, outside of power?

I can tell you it’s for testosterone, for sex. Look at Richard Gere or Antonio Banderas: his age continues with gallant attractions in his life and in his work. Nosotras, if we have younger couples, if we look badly, there are comments, looks. There is one more theme that goes beyond all of this and that is sex: you have to be fit, slim, shaved, shaved, stretched. They can be bald, which I’m not telling you, with bellies, which I’m not telling you, and nothing happens.

So, the solution is not mentioned?

I don’t believe it. We need to speak up to let each other know that this is how it is and we need to do what gives us hope. I arrange for myself, to find myself happy in my own skin. Sometimes I change my clothes three times to go to the pharmacy, but because I want to suit myself, not to like my uncles. It’s good, you know? If you like something, you have to be on the ground from what you can see. Like us, we don’t need to see a guy in calzoncillos to enjoy them. It’s full of inequality and machismo.

I guess this aplomo helps the scene.

Many, many. That’s when I drink a lot of coffee with myself and I say to myself: ‘come on, aunt, stop this fear, thinking that you are not enough makes you grow, or any other thought that what you have limits you’. This voice that we have inside that hurts you. I refuse. There I parked it and from time to time I take four bites because otherwise I can’t go on stage. Luego can enjoy everything: as an actress, as a woman, as a whole. In this business, you depend on people’s taste, but if you don’t like yourself, you don’t like Nadie.