“Because you’re an actor, you’re not better than anyone else.”

The brutal murder of five people that occurred in the summer of 1975 on the Los Galindos estate in Paradas (Seville), a prescribed crime that was filed without trial and shocked Spanish society in the last months of Franco’s rule, is the starting point of ‘The Marquis’, the successful fiction that Telecinco offers on Wednesday nights (10:50 p.m.).

The actor José Pastor (Málaga, 30 years old) is the protagonist of this fictional story, in which he plays Onofre, a young journalist who returns to his hometown to investigate the crime. Pastor also plays guitar and piano. He composes his own songs and performs songs by other artists. His passion for music is reflected in his social media profiles, where he shares versions of other singers and his own creations.

-After playing Emilio Pasamar Fonseca in ‘Acacias 38’ and getting into the shoes of Miguel Bosé, he is now a journalist intern who has to investigate the crime in his town.

-It has been very fun. With this project I have felt very, very much an actor. Playing a journalist has been cool. In fact, I spoke with Ignacio del Moral’s brother (screenwriter) and asked him why a person decides to be a journalist. I imagined what the job of this profession was at that time and it seemed to me that it meant being able to change things even a little.

-How is José Pastor similar to his character, Onofre?

-I share quite a few things with him. At first I thought of a character who was more attentive to everything, but then I ended up playing him from another place. As with a more innocent look, that of that person who returns to his hometown and becomes smaller. You are there but you don’t want to be seen. Quite the opposite of playing Miguel Bosé, who is up there and wanting people to see him.

-Are you still in contact with Bosé?

-That project of his ‘biopic’ has been moving away. We don’t speak, but we are in contact on Instagram. I like him great.

-He also started in music. What are his plans?

-My first song, ‘Kung fu’, has already come out. I think it is a very interesting project because it is conceptual. It’s going to resonate a lot, especially among people born in the 90s. It’s really going to be very cool. I’m super excited, it’s something I’ve also wanted to do since I was very young, since I was 16 years old. I’m really looking forward to it.

-Would you leave acting for music?

-I can’t stop acting. The other day she came back from class and thought that she hadn’t interpreted for a long time. I need to act, it is my way of expressing myself, but right now I am in a process of total love with music. I’m never going to stop acting. But in fact, and returning to the previous question, Miguel Bosé did tell me that he would never leave acting for music.

-Is music a more difficult world?

-Don’t know. It’s true that I feel that music is a more aggressive world. Acting is my life itself.

-Have you been bitten by the ‘Benidorm Fest’ bug?

-I do not care. It would be cool. The thing is that this year it was still very early. But it is clear that it is a festival that is also a launching platform.

Feet on the ground

-How is fame?

-Very calmly, really. It’s not that I suddenly can’t enter places, but I handle it quite normally. In fact, when they occasionally stop me on the street, they congratulate me. I am delighted that they do it because they are valuing my work.

-Who makes you put your feet on the ground?

-My father’s wife a lot. My father and my mother too. My colleagues, my girlfriend, the psychologist. I lean on everyone a little bit. If I lose my temper, someone will give me a ‘smack’ to wake me up, but I try not to let it happen. Because you are an actor you are not better than anyone else. I have observed that in many people and I have realized that I do not want to be like that. I take care of myself so that doesn’t happen.

-Do you think it is essential for an actor to go to therapy?

-It is for everyone. Because suddenly you meet people in life where you think: “Damn, just like I’m working on myself, you should too.” I have encountered more than one like this. It seems to me that it is essential. Furthermore, I think that as a result of the pandemic, going to the psychologist is more normalized than before.