Spanish actress Carmen Maura received the Honor Award at the 2022 Platinum Awards.
Madrid vibrates these days as the center of the best Ibero-American cinema and series. It is the host city of the 2022 Platinum Awards and one of the biggest stars in Spain will take home the Platinum of Honor at the gala this Sunday (for America, from 8 pm). The prize is for eternity carmen maura.
She is a standard bearer of the Hispanic audiovisual industry and the European actress decades ago he stole the heart of Argentinawhere he also worked.
The announcement, at the Intercontinental Hotel and with the main staff, is the prelude to the great Platinum gala, which on its red carpet will feature from Javier Bardem until Chinese Darin.
In “Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown” (1988), one of her highlights was her partnership with Pedro Almodovar.
In the first row is Mercedes Moránnominated for Best Performance by a Female in a Series, for her role in The Kingdom. Beside him, the creator of that police political thriller, the writer Claudia Pineiro.
Carmen Maura, 76, didn’t need a sweet introduction from the awards executives. Before standing up, a video showed less than a minute a large race. There is no flaw in acting or personal.
“I was impressed with what I did. This award is special. I’ve worked a lot in Latin America and half the people haven’t found out yet“, introduction of the actress. She points to a very obvious fact in this environment:” Not all films made in Ibero-America reach all countries. Not because they are bad. I make copies for my friends to see. “
He also shone in “La Comunidad” (2000), by the brilliant Alex de la Iglesia.
There he defended it platforms like Netflix serve to improve distribution across all latitudes.
Always with the sense of humor of a dramatic comedy diva, Maura broke the ice of the press conference with a joke: “The camera is special, ‘I’m on'”. He also admitted that being a television host, an experience that only lasted a year, was the biggest challenge of his career. “I was the only one with the script and the rest (because of the guests) could improvise.”
You can’t continue talking about this star without mentioning who it is he got all the attention and respect of another great: Pedro Almodóvar.
Maura was born in 1945 in Madrid, He received his degree in French Letters and studied Philosophy and Literature at the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Paris.. After that, he started acting at the Teatro Español Universitario to devote himself entirely to acting in the late 1970s.
In his beginnings, he would collaborate with the great names of the era in Spain, such as Antonio Mercero, Manuel Mur Oti, Pilar Miró and Carlos Saura.
The first Almodovar Girl
This is first included Fuck … fuck … fuck me Tim! and then included Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls a lot when the name of Carmen Maura was associated with the name of Almodóvar, the director who was with her She became the first “Almodóvar Woman”.
“We’ve done a lot of good for each other. I met him while in the theater, He’s not a great actor, but he’s the kindest and the person I know best. We became super friends. He told me a story and I told him ‘now tell me a story about I don’t know what’. And he did it, ”he said.
With her beloved Pedro Almodovar, posed in Cannes with Penélope Cruz. Photo by AP
The first short of both has a super 8 camera, the first to be purchased by the director. “Then he gave me a big gift What did I do to experience this? That was phenomenal. He did it against everyone’s opinion, saying they wouldn’t believe me. I didn’t talk to Peter much, I read the script and I already knew how I wanted to interpret him“, he detailed.
At one point this relationship was separated professionally, not emotionally, and took 20 years to work together again. But the timing between these artists is not lost.
Maura starred In the dark, Bullfighter, The law of desire Y Woman on the verge of a nervous attacka film that earned Almodóvar his first Oscar nomination and where the actress won the Goya Award and the Félix of the European Film Awards.
The decade of the nineties was its peak worldwide. Oh Carmela!by Carlos Saura, was a great success at that time which also earned him the Goya and Felix awards. The unknown queen, Shadows in a battle or How to be sad and happy, are other titles of this great.
She also shared a cast with Juliette Binoche in André Téchine’s Alice and Martin. Among his first forays into Ibero-American cinema was the Mexican film the comet or the Chilean The vitality.
In the 2000s, Maura shone Communityby Álex de la Iglesia, who got him his third Goya and the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival.
Permanently installed on the international stage, he starred in French agreed silencewhere he worked with Gérard Depardieu, the Argentine valentine’s dreamsthe Israeli Free place with a young Natalie Portman or the American tetraby Francis Ford Coppola.
In 2006, after nearly two decades, he returned to work with Almodóvar on come back, Where she shared a cast with Penélope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Lola Dueñas and Blanca Portillo (star of Maixabel, nominated for Best Film at the Platinum Awards).
The reunion of the actress and director accompanied the filmmaker from La Mancha to the Oscars, while his female cast, along with Maura, will win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival, and a fourth Goya for actress.
At this press conference, she said that at the age of 25, “a guardian angel” for a boy told her “Carmen, if you want to be an actress, do it.” And he did. He decided that in his career, became an actor “is a gift”, “all lucky”, “all positive”. And when he hears people talking to him (very well) about him, he thinks “they’re talking about something else”.
She likes the theater, it makes her happy, “I reconciled myself with the theater,” she assured. But the people overcame him. “I lost 3 kilos”he said, because of the pressure of being on those boards.
Bad decision on men
“In my personal life I have made bad decisions, especially with men. But in professional life I don’t make major decisions for my career. What I did was no premeditation. I have yet to make a decision as an actor. They approached me alone. It’s a matter of luck. “
In recent years, he has stood out in Brazilian film venicethe Australian Chasing Wondersthe American miniseries Your honorstarring Bryan Cranston, and the Mexican production Someone has to die. And for now 2022, the premiere of rainbowa new film by Paco León, and the Argentine series Limbo … until I decideby Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat.
The actress will formally accept the award at the gala, from Mexican Diego Luna, who received it at the final ceremony. In previous editions, artists like raphael (2019), adriana barraza (2018), Edward James Olmos (2017), Ricardo Darin (2016), Antonio Banderas (2015) at Sonia Braga (2014).
Audience Platinum Awards
The award for Best Female Performance in a Series went to Mercedes Morán, for The kingdom. “This is the first time the public has recognized me in this way. In other words, everything we do is for them. People are like characters,” the Argentine actress said.
Mercedes Morán was publicly selected as Best Actress for her performance in the El Reino series.
The best male performance in a series went on Darin Chinese. “I want to thank the followers of El Reino, who were clearly present at the vote,” he said in a video. Darín was attracted to his interpretation of Julio Clamens.
The public voted Argentina as the Best Series The kingdom. “They were a series of lucky events, from the first moment, with Marcelo Piñeyro (co-author). I want to emphasize that there were many female technicians on the set of the team. And the actors and actresses did a lot more than what was written. “It’s not just the performances that people are talking about, it’s the issues that have been touched on in the series,” highlighted Claudia Pineiro.
He referred to the fact that history has caused debates about the relationship between politics and the Church, the abuse of boys and girls who remain silent in this area, and “overwhelmed rights, especially for women. “
The best female performance in the cinema, according to the public, went on Penelope Cruz. Went for Best Male Performance in Film Javier Bardemfor The Good Pattern. “It’s very exciting to receive an award given by the public,” said the actor, also from a video.
Chosen by the public as Best Movie Parallel Mothers. Almodóvar apologized for his absence and recorded a message.
“Obviously, there’s a main theme in the film that happened a lot in Latin America: mass graves. They thanked me in Chile, in Argentina.” He also thanked an NGO of volunteers who participated in the excavation and the anthropologist who guided him to the film.
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Source: Clarin
