Elena Rivera: "You put me Julio Iglesias or Rocío Jurado in a karaoke and I come up"

Elena Rivera (29 years old, Zaragoza) has grown up in front of the cameras, first in music competitions and then in

a series that she left four years ago

She from eternal girlfriend of Carlos Alcántara she went on to star in plays and lead successful series.

The latest,

, which after going through Atresplayer Premium and Antena 3 has been on the list of the 10 most watched non-English speaking series worldwide on Netflix for six weeks.

This is the first summer in three years that she has vacationed, and she has just returned from a few days in Benicàssim and Marbella.

The date is at a rooftop restaurant on Madrid's Gran Vía, a place discovered by Jon Kortajarena and Miguel Ángel Silvestre.

Ask.

Did you feel like resting after putting together so much work?

Response.

Since I left

, I have linked a play and the series

… I think I only rested in confinement.

I am aware that I am privileged and I am grateful for having been able to engage in so many projects with so much responsibility.

But it is also necessary to stop, and once I have done it, I have noticed that the body needed it.

P.

Is it more of national tourism or going abroad?

R.

I am more of a national.

I like to go out and get to know other cultures, it's very enriching, but now it seems that there is the posture of going to the other side of the world, 13 hours of flight... There are very nice things in Spain.

There are people who go crazy to go outside and then you ask them about very emblematic and historical sites in our country and they don't know anything.

It's a shame.

P.

You like gastronomy, but do you like to cook?

A.

Not so much.

If I have people around me who are better at it, I prefer to enjoy eating.

In confinement I looked if the bug entered me, but nothing.

I'm lazy in that sense, all the paraphernalia that has to be assembled and the hours of cooking so that nothing lasts... When I wear it I try to have enough so that I at least have enough for the next day.

I really like to eat.

Maybe I'm not going on a trip outside of Spain, but I invest that money in getting to know places to eat well.

I like everything about food, except lentils.

Q.

Excuse the easy appeal, but tortilla with or without onion?

R.

With. And a little waste.

Q.

What do you come up with in a karaoke?

R.

Uy, with whatever.

You play me a ballad by Julio Iglesias and I come up, a couplet by Rocío Jurado and also one by Justin Bieber or Aitana, the same thing.

Music is what I started with, it's my passion, and although I've been interested in acting, as soon as I get a DJ, I get excited, I'm in my sauce.

The actress Elena Rivera, recently arrived from a vacation in Benicàssim and Marbella.

Claudia Alvarez

Q.

You are very active on social networks.

How much posture is there in what he teaches in them?

R.

I always bet on normality.

But it is a showcase for us as actors, it helps us to promote, it gives us more impact, you can position yourself, measure what you want to say... It is you who is setting the pace.

But I try to show a lot of naturalness.

It scares me when I see that obsession with showing a much higher reality, too much posturing, because that affects mental health.

Continually showing everything so perfect and so idyllic creates such frustration that people end up needing psychologists.

We are reaching a limit that is a little scary.

P.

I said before that I already wanted to stop from so much work.

Aren't you afraid that they will forget about you?

R.

That fear in this profession is always there, it is very uncertain.

The success of

, for example, has caught me resting, but for the people I am now very present.

At the moment, I have never had that anxiety of not having anything.

Q.

Have you not regretted leaving

?

After all, it was a pretty safe job...

R.

It was very clear to me, and the ending of our characters [Carlos Alcántara, played by Ricardo Gómez, and Karina] was done very well.

And not only the end, the entire season was very round.

had a stage until that end and now you are in another stage.

I have not continued to watch it, just some loose thing.

I am in another stage, I don't know if I am more mature, but I have felt that the profession has reached out to me and has shown me that I am not just that character, but that I can do more things.

Q.

Will you see the end of

when it arrives?

R.

Let's see... It's nothing formal and they haven't made us a proposal, but there is a possibility that, if they make an ending, try to get us to appear.

It's all up in the air and they don't even know if it's going to end or anything, it's talk for talk.

But if they do decide to make a comeback, it has to be in keeping with the spirit of the characters, make sense.

But I don't know, they are things that are heard, that they say... but officially there is nothing.

Q.

It conveys an image of an almost perfect woman.

Let's dismantle that idea, it will have some defect.

R.

I have a hard time saying no at first.

It gives me something to disappoint with that no.

And another thing, I'm excessively punctual, to the point that I arrive early and make time so that the other person doesn't think I'm crazy.

He is sick.

P.

Actually they are not defects at all...

R.

I am also a perfectionist to an exaggerated point.

P.

Another thing that is not a big defect...

R.

I know: I have a bad mood when I get up, I need my half hour without anyone talking to me.

I wake up with bad milk.

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