Blanca Suárez: “I neither hide nor conceal myself, but I don't tell my life to anyone”

If there is an Olympus of Spanish cinema, Blanca Suárez (Madrid, 35 years old) has an indisputable place in it.

For almost two decades, the actress has become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after figures in the industry, leading blockbusters in both film and television and repeatedly collaborating with filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Álex De la Iglesia.

His name is the bait most used by digital media of all kinds and on Instagram, his favorite social network — “They suggest TikTok for advertising reasons, but it doesn't work for me,” he says — he has more than 4.5 million followers. .

Her greatest satisfaction, however, is having achieved her listed milestones while being true to herself.

“I have never been willing to sell my life to get something,” she says at the beginning of the talk.

“In this job you have to be willing to sacrifice many things and not be present in many moments, but I try not to give them up.

If you get out of the loop for too long, your center and your identity can become distorted.”

He knows what he's talking about.

In just one week she has been seen enjoying an exhibition match between tennis players Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz in Las Vegas, being acclaimed by hundreds of fans on the red carpet of the Malaga film festival and attentively attending to journalists and photographers, already in Madrid, at the presentation of the new collection of the glasses brand Mr. Boho, of which she is an ambassador.

The schedule may be hectic, but, in her case, experience is a degree.

With the poise worthy of a career model, she poses effortlessly in front of the cameras while she plays with the frames and gives life to the fringes of her

oversized cape.

On the other hand, her two-mile trend bun, which will take over the fashion and beauty websites the next day, remains intact.

In just a couple of minutes, photos taken.

It is clear that this is not her first rodeo and she does it exhibiting character and confidence.

“In this world we all run the risk of being clones and wanting to be something we are not just because social networks dictate so.

Today, being yourself and feeling proud of being so is already a triumph.”

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In the days leading up to the interview, Blanca Suárez has made headlines.

On this occasion, due to her undisguised boredom with what author Rebecca Solnit called “the mother of all questions”: When will children be born?

The Madrid native has been responding for 17 years with a stony smile that she is not willing to maintain any longer.

“As you get older they ask you more and more because it's like the moment should be blowing you away.

And it's even more uncomfortable than when I was young, because no one knows if I have a problem, if maybe I've been trying for 10 years and I've been traumatized by not achieving it, if I don't want to, if I'm not interested... Before I felt obliged to smile, but There comes a point of: 'Please leave people alone because you don't know what could be behind it.'

Her romantic relationship with actor Javier Rey, forged in 2020, has hypertrophied her interest in her private life, but not the interpreter's desire to share more details about it.

“I neither hide nor conceal myself, I do not live in secrecy, but I do not tell my life to anyone,” she says.

The actress Blanca Suárez at the presentation of the new collection of the Mr. Boho brand, in Madrid.INMA FLORES

The next big event on his agenda will be the premiere of

Disco, Ibiza, Locomía

(on May 17), the film about the rise and fall of the Spanish

boy band

in which he plays Lurdes Iribar, showgirl and costume designer. of the pop phenomenon.

The bulk of the cast is so new that Suárez, cast in the role of “older sister” of the group, has felt first-hand the rigors of the generation gap.

“I was fascinated to see them because they seem from another universe, we belong to different planets.

Their way of speaking, their gestures, their way of dressing and looking at life... My head was exploding and I thought: 'Am I becoming like my parents?'.

“She knew that that day she was going to arrive, but now?” she recalls with amusement.

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She has never had a plan drawn up, and she doesn't even believe that in this profession that can be of any use.

“I don't know if I have gotten where she wanted because I don't know if I have ever known where she wanted to be, but I am satisfied with what I experienced.

When I was little I never imagined everything that has happened to me these years,” she says.

Time and experience have taught her to deal with the ups and downs inherent to her craft.

“Even when everything has gone well for me, I have always felt frustrated about something.

Maybe because one year, instead of five projects, you only have one;

because you have a lot of work and you don't get to your personal life or because you don't know how to fit in two shoots that coincide in dates.

It's stupid, you are lucky enough to dedicate yourself to something that many people want, but you accidentally get into the loop and many things frustrate you."

Blanca Suárez in a frame from the series 'The Cable Girls'.Courtesy of Netflix

Later on the calendar awaits

Respira

, a drama series about the daily life of a hospital a la

Grey's Anatomy

for Netflix.

Suárez has lived in a leading role in the recent transformation of the audiovisual industry, skillfully surfing between those phenomena of general television of yesteryear (

The Internship

,

The Boat

) and

streaming

hits such as

The Cable Girls

.

Will the millionaire audiences of prime time

fiction return

?

“It is difficult to get people to recommit to watching a series on a specific day.

Before there was some solemnity, you waited all week to see her, but that event has been lost,” the actress reflects melancholy.

“I, for example, notice that I consume fiction in an excessive way.

I can watch a series in three days, but I do it at home and, of course, one person comes, the other comes in, without realizing it I'm suddenly on Instagram on my phone... And I think: 'Wow, I'm not paying as much attention to it as I should. deserves.”

For her, however, it is difficult not to do so.

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