One of the greatest virtues of Calendar Its non-didactic pedagogical approach results, by presenting the inspiring vision of the art of teaching, tangible, mainly, through the role of Professor Amalia, played by Clarita García. Amalia is not a conventional teacher; Her character is outlined by humanity that reveals her own conflicts and contradictions, but also the ingenuity to transcend them and guide her students with empathy and understanding. The character became a model of a teacher who, although scarce, exists and leaves a deep mark on his students..
Clarita closes a cycle with this last episode of the third season; a cycle in which each scene, each gesture, was a sample of her dedication and commitment to Amalia, to Calendarwith Cuba…
«I have many feelings inside. I feel nostalgia and happiness. It makes me very proud that we have been able to finish a three-season project, with such good energy from the public. I feel a lot of gratitude, and also that concern that we actors always have to ask ourselves: what will come next? But, in general, gratitude and happiness are the predominant feelings », he confesses.
For the young actress, a cycle closes with the last episode of the third season. Photos: Calendar Scenes.
—What did playing Amalia mean to you during these years?
«Amalia has kept me very busy. In a way, it has given me back a little more kindness and faith. He is a very beautiful character, one of those who don’t come every day. Playing her all these years has been really beautiful. Now that time has passed since the filming of the last scene, she feels as if she has been inside a bubble, very focused, living her life to the fullest. It’s something a bit mystical and mysterious to explain. It has been a wonderful experience, something that does not happen every day.
«Thanks to Magda González, Amílcar Salatti and the entire production team, who have helped me so much to be well focused, taking care of every detail. “I think that’s what has made everything come out with so much love.”
—Did anything of Amalia remain in you?
«Something about Amalia that stayed with me, without a doubt, is poetry. Yes, Amalia, Hamilcar, Magda, the team, Calendar per se, They left me with a deep search for poetry all the time. Right now, I’m trying to keep a space on my Instagram on Sundays so that people continue to have a little of that poetry and so that Amalia doesn’t leave completely.
«It left me with the awareness that, even if difficult times come, something good will always come afterward. The awareness that we must listen to each other, help each other more and not give in to trifles. We must get up and continue fighting the windmills, trying to do our part without complaining. That is something very beautiful that Hamilcar wrote with all his soul.
—What do you think Amalia represents for the public?
«The other day, in a comment, a person wrote to me that Amalia was Cuba, and that is one of the most beautiful comments I have ever read, because yes: Amalia is Cuba. How can you compare a character with a country? Because? Because Amalia continues living in the same place, without much prosperity, with gratitude for what she has, but always fighting against the windmills.
«Amalia continues saying goodbye to the most beloved students, but continues helping the new ones who arrive. Amalia is the hope, humility, kindness. It is the awareness that you will fight to be better, even if things are getting worse. “I think that’s what the public loves: hope.”
—Did any scene mark you as an actress?
«I have many scenes that I remember with special affection. But without a doubt, one of my favorites is the first scene of the first season. It was very special for me because of everything I felt when filming it and because of the final result.
«It’s a beautiful scene that moved me from the first time I read it in the script, when she faces her first day of school as a teacher, in front of all those students. She wrote the poem and in that scene, so beautiful, so unique, so well written and performed, she captured everything.
—And as a viewer?
«I have several. That scene of her first time in the classroom was very special for me as a viewer. Also shocking was the scene in which Cecilia (Odelmys Torres), Orestes’s mother (Ernesto Codner), attacks Amalia with a stick in the second season. And now, in the third, the scene of Orestes’ farewell was very emotional, for everything he represents.
—How would you describe each of the seasons?
«The first season, for me, was the light. The second was sacrifice and concentration; and the third, the farewell.
