Pol Monen: “I am lucky that most of my friends are not acting”

If you know Pol Monen (Barcelona, ​​27 years old), and it is likely that you know him, it will be for his roles in film and television, be it

(2017), for which he was nominated for a Goya for best revelation actor or that Netflix hit,

(2019).

They won't recognize him for any personal confession spilled out on Instagram or a bombastic political opinion on Twitter;

nor for any other scene that every character is required to be public in 2022. “I refuse to think that networks are life, that what quantifies

is all there is.

I refuse to give them more importance than they have for me”, he assures this morning.

Even he finds that his Instagram can be impersonal.

“Should I put more stuff?

I think so.

Could it be more personal?

Yes. But I don't feel like it.

It is a work tool and sometimes I share something of mine.

But people can know me more through my work than through my social networks.

I express myself a lot more, and I'm a lot more comfortable, out there."

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Pol Monen wears Louis Vuitton sweatshirt and pants.Antonio Macarro

It's quite revolutionary that an actor under 30 believes that exposure, understood as an end in itself, can consume whoever pursues it.

But in the end, how well this formula has served Monen is almost unheard of.

This Catalan stepped on his first set at the age of ten, under the orders of Almodóvar, as an extra in

(2004);

Soon he decided to take acting seriously and since then his work rate has not slowed down.

“This includes strange things, what do I know: in the credits of

(2007), one of the hands that starts the credit titles is mine.

As a first experience it is quite curious, ”she says.

And immediately he adds about that time of adaptation to the environment: “There are days that I have the feeling of living things that I have always dreamed of, this happens to me very often.

My first day of filming in

was with Natalia Tena.

I, who loved

, suddenly had Nympho Tonks playing my mother-in-law.

wow.

It has happened to me with other actors that I have admired since I was a child… I think I have normalized things that, if I see them with perspective, are impressive”.

This rhythm of work is going to give him quite a few fruits in the coming months.

The premiere of

is pending , where she plays a leading role (it is her usual role since

, five years ago, although she also takes iron out of this: “Greta Fernández once told me something that her father, Eduard, used to say: 'Good movies are sustained by good secondary ones'. It's something I also believe. You can't work alone”).

Also awaiting the release of

, a Netflix supernatural drama created and written by film director and screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez

which premieres in the series, and with Milena Smit

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Pol Monen poses with a king's crown and, like the devil, Prada dress.Antonio Macarro

Meanwhile, he has been on tour with

, by Víctor Sánchez Rodríguez, his first play, which has given him a challenge for his nerves and a couple of lessons on the trade.

“The first show we did with the public was a pass, my heart was racing.

Boom boom, boom boom.

Then as soon as you go on stage, everything flows in a less mental way.

What can happen to you, happens to you before, once on stage everything changes.

Besides, I don't feel the responsibility of being in open-heart surgery.

I want something to happen to the public when they see me, in the best of cases, but one must know that it gets where it gets, that you make a joke and it's not funny.

The world does not end."

In the play, a dark psychological drama, his character spends a couple of scenes watching screenings of Douglas Sirk movies.

That comment about the emotional and the cerebral is a frequent observation of Monen, especially when he talks about his relationship with the papers.

“I don't have much in common with him, because he lives in the middle of nowhere, in a rural house and only knows the countryside, his town where ten people live.

But there is a nobility in him, in his commitment to his family, which I find very beautiful”.

(2018), more rational: "He acted as a camel, perhaps the furthest thing from me that I have done".

Pause.

Bone has been touched here.

Something changes in him, his eyes begin to shine.

“The most difficult shoot I've ever done.

I empathized a lot with the character, I have very few things in common with him but it took me a while to let go.

He hated himself so much and spending six weeks every day visiting this tore me apart.

The shoot was…”.

He trails off for a second.

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“Sometimes I empathize too much, when it is good to know how to separate things.

As a child I struggled a lot with that, now I take it with more sportsmanship.

And that Jota [Linares, the film's director] is a sweetheart, he couldn't have been in better company, ”she reflects, recovering.

The gesture freezes in a half smile as he says: “Sometimes I feel like, I don't know, I'm more sensitive than I'd like.

Once I started crying in the middle of the street because Joan Margarit, a poet I like, had died.

I said: 'But by God, how can it be… What is happening to me?'

Well, he cried, and also laughed.

I dont know".

Does he love himself even though he is a little more than the character in the movie?

“Thank God, I think so!” he warns.

“I'm at a point where I listen to myself more.

It's not that he didn't listen to me before, but life has these moments: what do you like,

you want to do.

Now I pay more attention to myself, I think it comes from confinement.

In those almost one hundred days I was able to reassess the things that I attached importance to and that in reality were not that important either, and vice versa.

I spent it at my parents' house here, in the town where my mother lived.

I realized that I am a very familiar person, I went to Madrid nine years ago to be an actor and it has gone reasonably well, but I feel that I still need a lot from my family”.

A counterweight to the world of

and spotlights?

“Acting is a circus.

I'm lucky that most of my friends don't do this.

My best friend is a biologist and my best friend is a psychologist.

If I compare myself with them, I relativize things in my life that, yes, are a bit strange”.

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