Marina San José: "That there is a couple of lesbians in a series should not be something as exceptional as it is not in our life"

The armchair is still empty, but Marina San José (Madrid, 37 years old) breaks into the stage.She arrives more than an hour late and with the hurry, in the middle of the interview, she realizes that she has forgotten to take off for the photos the false piercing of the nose that the character of her in Escape Room takes.When she discovers it, she laughs out loud.It is the second time that the play arrives in Madrid and this time she does it at the Fígaro Theater, the place she saw her debut in the capital 15 years ago with the nluda mailman.An experience that she remembers as "beautiful" and that supposed "the beginning of a working life" that she for now has developed mainly on the tables, where she really feels happy."The bug is never lost and if it is lost ... eye, that there is something that you have to check," she reflects.

It was quite unlikely that San José doubted his vocation being the daughter of two of the most weight artists in recent decades, Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel, and having been raised between scenes, artists, musical verses and scripts.But the truth is that at some point in his youth he went through his head veterinary, until he realized that he was passionate about animals, although not "to open them on the channel," he says, while he says he shares his life withLimona, a podenco that she welcomed at home temporarily and from which she never separated.As responsible for she opted for the interpretation, she points to her mother, who encouraged her to sign up for a theater course in William Layton's laboratory when she finished the institute, the same Madrid school she had attended beforeher parent."I loved it and started working and here I am," she summarizes.

Dressed in unpolluted black, with a matching mask and wearing an irreproachable postvacational brown in the first weeks of September, she confirms, it is an enjoyment, as it is intuited when looking at her Instagram profile. It accumulates a discreet number of followers - about 15,000 - if one takes into account that for more than 400 episodes she was one of the protagonists of loving in revolt times, one of the longest and most faithful series with the most faithful of the grill. “I am not a network animal. There are many people who live for that and don't cost them. It costs me, it costs me the effort of ‘come we are going to hang something’ ... but really one of my fundamental characteristics is to enjoy everything that comes to me, ”she admits. From time to time, between inns and snapshots, food or cup in hand - it suggests that it is “kitchens” and that its star elaboration is the “risotto ai funghi porcini e tartufo” -, some social claim is sneaked in in favor, for example, for example, of 8-M, without worrying too much about the opinions of others. “They interest me to some extent when someone makes a constructive criticism. When it is insulting to insult ... I have very respectful people on my social networks that follow me because they want. ”

Marina San José: “Que haya una pareja de lesbianas en una serie no tendría que ser algo tan excepcional como no lo es en nuestra vida”

Compared to its prolific theatrical career, its passage through the small and the big screen is, at least for now, very residual, although it is the character of Ana Rivas who owes much of its fame among the general public. Unlike other colleagues, he believes that he has never had to deal, however, with the inconveniences of the public exhibition and that they recognize it more for his “characteristic” voice when, for example, he asks “a beer in a bar”, which When he walks down the street. Rivas was, in addition to her alter ego for four years, an unusual character on Spanish television, a lesbian woman, for more inri, in times of Franco dictatorship. Apart from the fact that the story was developed in the fifties, San José defends the normalization of this type of characters and the need to end the labels. “It would not have to be something as exceptional as it is not in our life. I am very grateful to that role and gave us prizes and gave us many things because we made that part visible, but I think it also goes a bit against not normalizing it, that suddenly it is an exception that there is a couple of lesbians in A series, ”he says. For that interpretation she received, together with her companion Carlota Olcina - her lover of her in production - an award at the Lesgaicinemad festival.

It is almost impossible to look at San José and not automatically think about his mother. Also when she gestures. The physical resemblance between the two, mainly that of her mouth, is incontestable, although the actress points out that her face is a mixture of her parents and that "the factions" are from her father. The same, she points out, occurs with her personality. She takes importance to the "daughter of" coletilla that almost always accompanies her name and affirms that she gives her "exactly the same." She feels "proud" and she believes that her kinship has brought her "many more good things." "Obviously there have also been bad things, like they judge you without knowing you, but she has brought me many more good things," she insists. Among them, that of an childhood that although she describes as normal, allowed her to look out the functions that her mother starred and, even, then intuit what it would be like to put in front of a full armchair, such as when she left next to a friend to the stage in full function of beautiful Helena. “From so much going to see her one day we decided that as the girls had double costumes because we dressed and we got something. My mother, who knew nothing, when she looked at me and saw me there on stage with the costumes and taking a cocktail gave her a parraque, but as a professional who is continued as if nothing happened, ”she recalls fun.