Aitana Sánchez-Gijón does not hide it, it is the fruit of revolutionary love. Half Spanish and half Italian, he was also born in that 1968 marked by his hectic May and, to make matters worse, he owes his name to Rafael Alberti.
It was at the poet’s house in 88 on Via Garibaldi, where his father, a militant leftist rebel, imprisoned and exiled to Rome, met, well, the writer of the generation of 27. And if he chose that name, Aitana It is because it is also the one of the grove that the writer saw from the plane that exiled him from Spain after the Civil War and the one that he gave to his own daughter so as not to forget the burning of its red flowers.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón wears a Teresa Helbig jumpsuit inspired by those lives of the Juanas, those heroines who also impress the actress so much
So Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, sponsored by Aitana Alberti, had her own nanny as a newborn and a prophecy that the poet signed with these verses. “Aitana: Spanish-Italian rising star, / Our sad today, will be your light tomorrow, / Aitana: you, light of tomorrow / Sleep, Aitana today. Wake up tomorrow Aitana”.
In this morning that is today and for her it is bright although she recognizes that there are still too many reasons for sadness to be erased, Aitana is a strong and committed woman.
COVID
He lived it like a very heavy flu but he is already fit and combative as always
Feminist, because it does not conceive that it can be otherwise. A whirlwind of intellectuality and strength and a very long career that place her as one of the best-regarded actresses. But, she does not shut up, not everything is easy. Less for an actress, a woman, who is already over 50. She welcomes us with her wide and frank smile raising her angled cheekbones.
That which today is very bad. When you leave the studio in Poblenou in Barcelona where this editorial is shot with the neighbors very attentive from the front of their windows, you go directly to the dentist. You have to remove that tooth that has made him see the stars in the Bird … And he does not complain about this, as he did not, beyond noticing social inequalities that should be reviewed, when the Covid passed “like a very heavy flu.”
Is it very long-suffering?
No, but I’m trying to be optimistic. I always have been and especially in such a tough year …
Pinko’s blazer and Levi’s jean
Why do we no longer see it in the cinema?
In recent years I have not coped with the theater and television projects that I have been chaining incessantly but in film it is true that I have done very little. From 35 to 51 years old, the cinema was like a wasteland but 2021 gives me a return to the big screen in style. I can’t say more … but it will be very very big.
This 2021 gives me my return to the cinema and it will be in style “
Did it ever cross your mind to abandon all this?
Leave it? Never. Of course there have been moments of downturn … of a lot of downturn, but never to think about giving up. It’s 36 years old and I’ve been through everything except for deciding to throw in the towel. But it is also that I have hardly had time to think about that. I have always been with many, many projects, working non-stop.
Do you have a plan B?
I have never had it. If you weren’t an actress, what would you do? Nothing. I do not know … the truth, I have never considered it and I do not consider it now.
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And, to be the president of the Academy again? Do you think about it?
Look, in life you have to accept things that sometimes you don’t want too much. It’s like being the president of your neighborhood community. You neither get paid for it nor can you please everyone. The truth is that sometimes it is very ungrateful.
That is a no?
Like a house. No, I don’t want to be the president of the Academy again. But I recognize that I learned a lot and I think that everyone should live that experience because it is really very enriching.
I learned a lot being president of the Academy but no, I would not return “
I see her in shape and with clear ideas
Well … I’m not exactly at my best today. The tooth is killing me but it is true that I do a great job to find balance: yoga and pilates, cardio, weights and above all dancing with Chevi Muraday. I discovered him in En el Desierto, an epiphany of actors who sang and dancers and that made me fall in love
Did it mark a before and after?
Altogether. I went to see him and I said, Chevi, make me dance. He picked up the glove and Juana came out. I have no training as a dancer but she gave me the keys to try to do a job from the heart and honestly.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, elegant and comfortable in a Fendi coat
In his career there is a lot of theater
It was a great luck to land in the world of theater. It makes me feel great and alive.
Do you only play great women?
I am attracted to wrestlers like Juana de Arco, Medea… Juana Doña. They are the example to follow. Except Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was already class conscious with her “foolish men who accuse women without reason”, the rest have been very alone. Very very lonely until the 19th century
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Are you a Juana?
I am all. I give voice to those rebels who paid dearly to try to break the mold. Like those Juanas or like Julia Mesa, the Movistar series that will premiere this spring.
Can you be more feminist?
That I don’t know. But I am completely. Feminism is the radical idea that women should have the same rights as men.
It was a great luck to land in the world of theater. It makes me feel great and alive “
Now he makes audiobooks.
I have put my voice in The lying life of adults by Elena Ferrante, an extraordinary novel about the discovery of lies, love and sex. And also the 20 characters of Ikabob by J. Rowling. It has been really fun to shape and nuance each of those twenty very different characters.
You can see that he studied Philology …
Well, I left it in second. At the age of eight I was already working on television and at sixteen this was my profession.
Total look de Dior
And he has a family of artists
Oh yes it is! My husband is a sculptor, he has a study at home, a little social work, I give him the counterpoint. We complement each other very well.
Their children have also been very social
Yes! In that sense Teo and Bruna have come out to me. They are very artists. They rap.
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And they already do their bowling …
Yes! My son Teo is passionate about music and also has his studio at home… He raps and recently debuted in Matadero with Natalia Menéndez. And Bruna, who is in high school for performing arts, also raps, so yes, at home we are all very artists.
Karl Lagerfeld dress and Jimmy Choo court shoes
His walk in the clouds in Hollywood was just that … a walk.
It was good. But I had not missed anything in that world so egocentric, lonely and endogamous … My life has always been here. And I’m doing great.
The team
Behind the camera
Photographer: Pau Palacios
Stylist: Africa Glued
Make-up and hairdresser: Raquel Costales (Make-up by Chanel and hairdresser from eL’Oréal Paris)
Location: www.takebcn.com
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