In preparation for the Goya in the final stretch of 2025, the José María Forqué Film Awards were presented this weekend – with an emotional tribute to Héctor Alterio after his death at the age of 96 – and the long list of participants also included Elena Furiase, who, with characteristic spontaneity, revealed that she had once been the victim of an attempted kidnapping.
“Something happened to me when an older man tried to put me in the car and he couldn’t. Yes, he tried to kidnap me, that was it, yes, yes,” she recalled, assuring that it was not because of her fame – the daughter of Lolita Flores debuted in the world of acting at the age of 19 with the series “The Internship” – because “I was not known.” “But luckily we are here,” he concluded with a smile, avoiding giving further details about this traumatic episode.
As she counts the days until Christmas and admits that she has many memories of her childhood in the house of the unforgettable Lola Flores, the actress realizes that “although it is no longer what it was before, now it is calmer,” she pursues these dates with passion, “and with my children even more. I live them with great enthusiasm.”
They have a lot to celebrate this year, as the documentary “Flores para Antonio,” made by their cousin Alba Flores about her father Antonio Flores, won the Forqué Prize and is heavily nominated for the rest of the season’s film awards. “Alba did a very beautiful job, but it’s also painful, it opens a wound. You see where the family comes from, you see so much love, how happy everyone was… and suddenly this change and this pain… I remember my brother and my cousins crying a little bit too, with melancholy and sadness, because we couldn’t have it anymore and because we hadn’t experienced these moments when we were older,” she was honest, confessing that it’s such a “rollercoaster ride, where you cry.” of joy, emotion and gratitude” that after seeing it twice, “I don’t think I’ll see it again for a while.”
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