“when I am 80 I am not going to regret the bad papers that I have made or the parties that I have stuck, I am going to regret the hours I have spent looking at the mobile phone because it is empty time. That is why I want to disconnect as much as possible,” says Laura Weissmahr (Tarifa, 32 years). The actress takes her mobile in the specialty cafeteria in the center of Madrid where we have remained to do the interview and explains that a payment application has been installed that limits the use of social networks. Now you can only use them half an hour a day. “I thought I was not going to notice much because the networks have always given me laziness and I already used them very little, but I have reduced consumption by half,” he says. When asked if you are not afraid to lose roles for not being sufficiently present in networks, your answer is overwhelming: “If they were going to choose me only if I have equis followers, I don’t want that role, they can give it to another. That type of cinema is not the one that interests me.”
Now, Weissmahr feels that he has his feet on the ground and well -worked fears and traumas. Things like followers Or being a known face does not worry. He just wants to work a lot, muscle, continue learning and compensate every year he has not worked as an actress. “I’m so glad that this happened to me now …” And for “this” refers to his first leading role, to Goya to Revelation actress who has won by his interpretation in the film directed by Mar Coll Salve Maria and the media exposure that is traveling. “Good luck that has not happened to me before. I have learned to deal with my insecurities and in a filming I do not get defensive when I receive any type of correction. When I share projects with younger, more vulnerable actresses, I think: ‘Oh, poor!’
She was born in a rate because it is where her parents – shelty and she Italian – met, but the actress does not believe in the concept of nationality: “I do not feel any country, if I am something is European.” Weissmahr speaks six languages (Spanish, Catalan, Italian, German, English and French) and the first ten years of their life spending them traveling through Europe and the United States. When he arrived in Barcelona brushing adolescence, he asked his parents to establish themselves there, where the school ended: “until then we had not been in a row in the same city and needed to take roots in some way,” he says.
Laura Weissmahr has been promoting months – recently premiered in cinemas The aitasBorja Cobeaga movie in which she plays Nina, a German rhythmic gymnastics coach – and attending prize deliveries where Salve Maria It has been very well stopped: the fierce has taken for the best dramatic film, the Goya for Best Adapted Screenplay and also the Gaudí for Best Adapted script and Best Revelation Actress. Thanks to this movie, he believes that he has finally broken a glass roof and begins to be recognized and in the castings he looks different. The Goya, he says, has been like a certificate of authenticity. “Now I believe it. A part of me has calmed down. I have shown myself that I can do it.”
In the Mar Coll movie, Weissmahr gives life to a thirty -year -old postpartum that becomes obsessed with the news of a infanticide: a French woman kills her twins of ten months and her character does not stop asking what led her to kill them and if the same thing could happen to her. “It was very strong to have to host those dark thoughts with a six -week baby, who does not know what is a fiction or that you are acting, in arms. But it cost me anything to empathize with that. I could perfectly understand how you enter a mental state so fragile that it makes you confuse what you feel towards the person who is supposed to be what you have most to want in the world.”
He acknowledges that they are feelings that are not afraid to access: “I think it’s because I have grown up, for having had a very unstructured family … I have applied part of my suffering to something artistic and it is super therapy. Pain and traumas are much more universal than we believe. I am not a mother, I was not depressed … but I had another series of experiences and the pain ends up being the same, even if it comes from different sites.”
After years of secondary characters in series such as Perfect life o The route, movies like Julia is And a lot Falsestuff. The death of the muses-, this has been his great opportunity. “At first I felt super impostor. I thought: ‘Ok, look how much you have asked for a protagonist. Now he has come to you and you will not know how to do it.” “Do you know what happens?” He continues, “that when they have not given you the opportunity, you doubt if you will be able. For a long time I did not allow myself to verbalize that I wanted to be an actress. He told me: ‘What a freaked, why you will get it.” He is now immersed in the filming of Marta Matute’s first movie, I will not die of lovea family drama that seems like a “project” and feels lucky. “Entertainment is great, but people have to dare and make more art,” he says. He believes that the public is hungry for interesting projects and this encourages him to write his own texts since his friends also do it: “There is a lot of garbage.”
