Rafael Torres.- She was not an actress

MADRID, 5 Dic. (OTR/PRESS) –

An actress can be good, very good or excellent, but Conchita Velasco did not fit into any of those categories or any other superior one that there might be, and this was simply because she was not an actress. She was a monster of Nature. So, how is it possible that she played any character so well, comedic or dramatic, in film or theater, whore or saint, innocent or perverse, queen or beggar, bride or filicide, not being a actress but a monster of Nature? Very simple too: because on stage or in front of the camera it was always Concha Velasco, a woman so energetic, so powerful, so radioactive, that they managed, thanks to her deep love of work and her professional rigor, to be, to be. really, all women.

Or put another way: the real Concha Velasco was the one we saw acting, and, by the way, with so much pleasure, because she did it so that everyone who saw her would love her. It didn’t matter what character she played, the one concocted by some mediocre scriptwriter, the one dreamed of by a poet or the one left by Euripides for eternity, because it was always her, her eyes, her grace, her beauty, her wonderful diction, her prodigious talent. , and for that reason, and not because she was a magnificent actress, who shared the bill with her, she always embroidered, with gold threads, her characters.

Whoever saw her in “The Roosters of the Dawn” in an almost inhuman physical work, or in “Tormento” in a very bad way, or in “Pim, pam, pum…fire!” as the loser of all wars, or in “La colmena” as a fallen angel, or in “The Girls of the Red Cross” beautifying every frame and every corner of Madrid, he will concede that Conchita Velasco was not an actress, that is, that He didn’t act, because he was like that, all that and more, because he was a monster, a singular, fantastic, beautiful, seductive, unrepeatable monster of Nature.

She was not an actress, there was not the slightest pretense in her work, her naturalness was not affected, because it was she, with her mystery as well, who was there doing whatever it was magnificently. And she is no longer there.