Luis Zahera is, without a doubt, one of the fashionable actors. The actor, a native of Santiago de Compostela, has not stopped achieving success in recent years: since two Goyas for El Reino and As Bestas until triumphing on Netflix thanks to Entrevas and Vivir sin permit or sweep away his Chungo monologue with which he is touring part of the Spanish geography hanging the poster of sold out.
On the occasion of the premiere of his new film, Birds, the Galician performer gives an interview to El Mundo where he talks about the price to pay for fame, the outfit he wears as a dodgy uncle and of the latest health problem that has led him to stop for a while.
When people stop me on the street, they tell me: How fashionable you are! It’s true, but fashions come and go, so I don’t believe it much either., he begins by saying in a talk with journalist Iako Daz-Guerra. Luis Zahera considers himself truly privileged to be able to continue living from what he is most passionate about: acting. This profession is a lot of chance. That Einstein phrase that God does not play dice does not apply to actors. With us he plays dice and they have come out in my face. “I’m happy and a little exhausted,” he adds.
Get rid of the dodgy guy
In Birds, in which he co-stars with Javier Gutirrez, Santiago takes off that dodgy suit that he himself defines as such. He does it after many years playing the same type of characters and who have given him so much success. He was already playing. I play a loser, a penitent. I am very grateful to Pau Dur, the director, for thinking of me for this very different character (…) I’m never going to complain about being given a job, but in Spain people get pigeonholed a lot and it’s happened to me.dice.
If you do good to a bad guy, you’re always a bad guy. It is true that I want to do other types of things, although the problem is not that you get pigeonholed, the problem will be not working.Zahera emphasizes in El Mundo. The actor laughs that he has nothing to do with the type of characters he has played in recent times. I have nothing to do with them because otherwise I would be in prison. In life I am the youngest in a family of five and my four sisters would never see me as a tough guy. What’s up! I am normal, regular, throwing zero to the left. “I’m not at all alpha male,” he adds with his inimitable sense of humor.
Health setback
A few weeks ago, Luis Zahera was forced to pause his work schedule to value his health after a small scare. My prostate failed, I have no problem confessing it. I stopped urinating, they had to catheterize me and I had to sleep with a bag. I stayed completely shockeado, as the young people say now. I guess it’s a mix of age and work frenzy. At 57 years old, the difficulties begin, he says.
Everyone, at the same time, tells you that you have no life, but they also tell you that you have to take advantage of the streak. Coo, let’s clarify. If I think about it coldly, I have been living from this for a long time, I have reached certain status and I have to stop the machinery a little, even if only by medical prescription. I have no choice, he concludes.
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