At the beginning of the Spanish transition, political significance was discouraged for actors, actresses or singers, because they were singled out and their contracts could be cancelled. Currently, artists seem to no longer be afraid to demonstrate in the streets or on social networks, although the price paid is still very high.
The actress Itziar Ituño, known thanks to her role as Lisbon in La casa de papel, although she was born in Basauri (Bizkaia), lost a contract with BMW for having participated in a demonstration in favor of the rights of ETA prisoners in January . Likewise, Iberia deleted a video of the actress in a campaign from its website. Despite this, last weekend, Ituño sang the song Sarri, Sarri, about the escape from prison of two ETA members, when collecting an award that he dedicated to the author of the lyrics “who is also the victim of an attack, as I was in January.”
In January, Ituño received the support of many colleagues. But not from Jaime Lorente (Denver, in the Netflix series): “I wish the sector would be so supportive of all the artists who have suffered harassment eh…”. In November he described Gabriel Rufián, from ERC, as a scoundrel.
Juanjo Puigcorbé has also charged against the Republican Left of Catalonia. He left acting to be a councilor of the Barcelona City Council with the independence party, but after disagreements, in 2019 the party forced him to resign. He then went three years without contracts until Alpha Males 2 and Between Lands arrived.
Another pro-independence supporter, actor Joel Joan, confessed last Sunday in Via Lliure (RAC1): “I'm tired of being Catalan, it's horrible, I would love to be from Cáceres.” And he justified it by saying: “It must be a great peace of mind to wake up in the morning and not have to defend your language, and not suffer because you demonstrate and they can imprison you.” Some words that have been much commented on.
At the last Goya gala, in Valladolid, Pedro Almodóvar, one of those who raised his finger in support of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, responded to the vice president of Castilla y León, from Vox, after he referred to film people like gentlemen who live off subsidies. The film director claimed that they more than return the money they receive.
The actor Jesús Bonilla, who was not at the gala, criticized that Almodóvar only talked about subsidies and did not mention the murdered farmers and civil guards. The director from La Mancha did not respond, but the actor Guillermo Toledo, a far-left militant and scourge of the right, responded: “Jesus (like the rest of the actors and actresses) would not have been able to work without public aid. His two films as director (Moscow Gold and Rasputin's Dagger) received more than 1,200,000 euros each.
And on an international level, the most significant name is Taylor Swift, Joe Biden's great supporter. That's why Trump, knowing the number of followers the singer has, started a campaign against her, calling her relationship with Travis Kelce, winner of the Super Bowl, a setup.
