Alcobendas (Madrid), Feb 25 (EFE) .- Spanish actress Victoria Abril, who has worked on numerous occasions with directors Pedro Almodóvar and Vicente Aranda, today spoke out against vaccines for covid-19, the management of pandemic and lockdown.
“This is not covid, it is a coronacircus”, said at a press conference Victoria Abril, who has lived in Paris since 1982 and who has returned to Spain on the occasion of the Feroz de Honor 2021 Award by the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain (AICE) in recognition of his career, especially active in the 80s and 90s.
In his opinion, “we are guinea pigs, vaccines are untested experiments that get us quickly and since we are vaccinated there are more positive cases”.
After a year of pandemic in France, of “confinement, loneliness and depression”, a combative Victoria Abril said that “fear prevents you from living, worse than losing your life is losing your reason to live, enough is enough.”
She indicated that in France, where she has been an officer of the Arts and Letters since 1998 and in 2002 she was named a ‘knight’ of the Legion of Honor, the situation is worse because they have been without cultural or leisure activities of any kind for a year, “only work, subway and sleep “.
For this reason, and despite the fact that he has always been reluctant to accept awards, he has grabbed him as “a lifeline” to return to Spain, where he plans to settle – specifically, in southern Malaga – until the situation improves, in view of that French President Emmanuel “Macron has once again asked for another year to issue decrees and take away one hundred percent of our rights and freedoms.”
In an interview with Efe after the press conference, the protagonist of films such as “Kika”, by Almodóvar, or “Amantes”, by Aranda, influenced his criticism: “The (pharmaceutical) Pfizer is not responsible for side effects (from the coronavirus vaccine) and put your arm on top. “
“If you watch TV and don’t go out, you think that people are dying in the streets, but people are dying like every year, the year 2020 has not had more deaths than the 19th, where is the pandemic?” .
“All this is to confine us and alienate our fundamental rights and freedoms and turn us into slaves and guinea pigs,” he insisted, “and so that Amazon wins in two months of epidemic all the money that the EU has given us to pass it on.”
The Feroz de Honor that Victoria Abril will collect on March 2 in Madrid recognizes a career that includes almost a hundred films and a score of television series and that began very young, with just 15 years, together with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in “Robin and Marian”.
She has a total of nine nominations for the Goya Spanish cinema awards and won the statuette as the best leading actress with “No one will speak of us when we have died” (1995), by Agustín Díaz Yanes, which also earned her the Silver Shell at the Festival de Saint Sebastian.
She has been asking Almodóvar for years to call her again. “Every time I see him, I tell him ‘Pedro, I’m going to miss out on rice,'” he said, “but no, love cannot be ordered or commanded over the internet, bring me two kilos of love, it cannot be”.
– .
