Miguel Filling carries the account. ‘good luck’ is his 102nd movie. Gracia Querejeta directs this adaptation of Rosa Montero’s novel, in … The one that the veteran actor shares prominence with Hugo Silva and Megan Montaner. Presented out of competition at the Barcelona film Fest, the film, “like the entire work of Rosa Montero, talks about assessing good and evil.” «The world is divided into rich and poor, high and low, and, above all, good and bad people. What side are you in?
– Do you quickly pray to the good and the bad?
– No. The bad guys have a bad face in the cinema. Jack Palance, Henry Silva … now they can have a good face. Less Putin, who has a face of villain of James Bond.
– At 82, do you treat you well in the filming?
– I’m noticing as a kind of reverence, everyone is much younger than me. I didn’t just believe it. I roll many shorts and the director sometimes tells me that the team is trembling, because it comes stuffed. “My father tells me a lot about you, a movie called ‘El Crack’. I was not born yet ».
– And how do you feel?
– You are much younger, but what is all this fast? What am I 82 years old? I don’t believe it. It is a topicazo, but it is true. If I have 17. If I go running every day through the country house with a shirt that puts ‘I Love New York’ … if I get a lot.
– Does it give advice?
– Some ask me and others are in the filming all the time with the mobile. From time to time I give workshops to foolish who want to be actors. Tips or one, I tell you, before I get to a nun. Now, opinions, yes. Read the interpretation book of Michael Caine and be serious, professional and punctual. And you have to know the paper, of course.
– Does it happen to see a movie of yours making zapping and not remember your filming?
– Yes. Especially in the series. I spent five years in ‘Companions’, more than 120 chapters. I don’t like to see myself, I try to avoid it. I don’t know how to value myself. That’s why I like the theater, finish the function and tell me: “You have excited me.” As I have not seen … on TV I look flat, releasing very long dialogues … Look, before I got sick, I found Fernando Fernán Gómez one day at the Vips of the Paseo de la Habana. I asked him about a movie we had coincided. “What’s happening? That in addition to doing it I have to do with it? ”He replied.
– What has changed Spanish cinema since you started, in the late 70s?
– There have been many changes. One the technological one, because before we shot in celluloid, which was very expensive. “Miguel, please, do it to the first, that we have no movie.” Now he puts a card and you make 58 shots. Another fundamental change has been the platforms. In the last films and series that I have made I detect a kind of discouragement. Antonio Resines asked me if I thought I liked ‘we felt the inconvenience’. Well, I don’t know. The other day I met an actor who thought I was going to ask for money. And he told me that he had four seasons in a series and was lined. In Amazon. Who sees them? Or suddenly they tell you that they have seen ‘La Regenta’ (1995) …
– The year that came out in ‘La Colmena’ also made ‘they called him JR’.
– If you say it … I have also made a very bad cinema. I arrived in Madrid after the independent and naive theater of me, I thought I was going to work with Saura and Gutiérrez Aragón. And in theater with Marsillach and Núria Espert. I immediately saw my elders, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and I realized that everything had to be done. I have made Cinema del Unapa, ‘The vocational masseuse’, by Francisco Lara Polop. Horror, stupidities in underpants behind the Swedish. I even worked with Baroness Thyssen. But I hope I have not done any excessively reactionary. Rather they were Inanes. Melina Mercouri said she would make fascist in a revolutionary film, but not revolutionary in a fascist film.
Berlanga, from another world
– It has also been put under the orders of Garci, Camus, Berlanga, Fernán Gómez, Borau, Rope, Saura … What director has been the most great?
– Berlanga. It was from another world. The blur that I have bigger in my biography is not having made ‘La Vaquilla’. He had another commitment, a stupidity of film. It called you Marisol butcher, his head of production. “Miguel, Luis wants you to come to make ‘Moors and Christians’ because you are tall.” Time passed and you didn’t have news, so you called. «Oh, no, Luis doesn’t love you. He says you are tall. ‘ I finally surrounded the jail ». I remember a sequence with Manolito Alexandre, Rafael Alonso and Pepe Sacristán. Berlanga arrives. ‘What are you going to say? Fill, you who know so much from Westerns. Does nothing come about you? Well, go shit of actors … ‘. Then he made you fold scenes in which you said the script of Azcona. “But it’s nonsense!” It was fantastic.
– He started in this trade to change the world. He has not succeeded.
– No. But surely people have changed. The finding has come to me, which makes me die calmly. If I get great, dear, we will agree that art – cinema, music, theater – changes people. It has changed me, I hope that for good. What would this shit of the world without art? Without Vivaldi or the Marx brothers, without Dylan or Beethoven, without Billy Wilder or Velázquez? But you have to want to change the world. You have to read, yes, to know that donkey is written with by not with v. But it depends on what you read and what you do with it.
– Are you going to buy a survival kit for the imminent war?
– The negative makes a lot of noise. If now an idiot skyses a traffic light in the Plaza de Catalunya and kills two ladies he leaves on the news. But surely, at this time, in a hospital in Barcelona they are changing the heart to a patient. And that will not leave anywhere. People who know their fucking mother and charge little. I am optimistic. There will be no war, common sense will be imposed. We have to have learned something. The sensible ones will react.
