Emma Suárez (Madrid, 1964) walks around the Casa Fuster hotel room, admiring the furniture as naturally as if she were walking through an IKEA section on Saturday afternoon. Minutes later, during the interview, she spills the water that is being served, reaches for a handful of napkins, and bends down to clean up herself, laughing but still responding to the journalist. Emma is like that. Lovely. The actress premiered Someone Who Takes Care of Me at the BCN Film Fest, a film directed by Daniela Féjerman and Elvira Lindo, in which she signs the script and is behind the cameras for the first time.

She plays Cecilia, an intermediate level in a saga of actresses, in the shadow of a severe mother (Magüi Mira) and with a recently awarded daughter (Aura Garrido). Cecilia has been stagnant for a long time and if she shone in the past, today she must settle for a tertiary role in the television comedy of the moment. She suffers but does not express it and when she does, she keeps a fundamental secret: “It seems to me a very tender and close story. There is talk of lack of communication within the family, of how the people you live with are often strangers. Also about the difficulty in accepting the passage of time and how it affects actors: in this job it happens that you are at the peak of your career, you are recognized and flattered but time goes by and you are in fashion. There is no place for you in the industry and you are left with the face of asking what has happened”.

However, the film is not a melodrama nor does it contain morality. It looks fluid and the viewer laughs more than once, empathizing with what is happening on the screen.

Emma Suárez herself, with three Goyas in her showcases, has felt the same as her character. “In this trade we have to learn to live with instability; is part of it. It does not matter the awards received: there is no guarantee that you will have a job in the next five years. We live based on the success of the projects we are involved in, the films we make, and after a very successful year, the next one is unemployed because nobody calls you. I have lived it and I live with this uncertainty. I am a person who does not make plans”.

Suárez explains that a few days ago, embarking on a conversation about a trip with friends to Egypt, she had not made up her mind: if the project she was hoping for comes out, she will not be able to travel, and if there is no luck, it would not be in her best interest to deplete her checking account.

But Emma is in a very good moment. She comes from making the series Néboa and Intimacy and will play Laura Trueba in the adaptation of the novel Reina Roja (Juan Gómez Jurado) that Prime Vídeo is preparing. Immediately after, he will begin shooting in Barcelona the debut feature of cinematographer Aitor Etxeverría (42 seconds, El inocente, María y los otros) with Darío Grandinetti, and will once again be the mother, in this case, of Natalia de Molina. Does Emma Suárez find echoes of herself in her real daughter? “She has a lot of personality and I don’t see myself in her but… in certain anecdotes or situations I have come to recognize myself. The other day she told me a story and I felt identified: I would have done the same. And I liked it a lot, it was very nice, because in the end this means that you understand your daughter, that she has the confidence to tell you things”.

Love alone is not enough, is it, daughter? Emma asks Aura Garrido in this film. Consideration serves as a pole to probe the four pillars on which a relationship should be based. And Emma, ​​without a partner at this point in her life, opens her arms in a gesture of ‘let them search me’ and responds, bursting with laughter: “What else? I don’t know, you tell me (laughs). Well, I think a sense of humor, communication and trust are essential. If that table needs a fourth leg, I’m afraid I don’t know.”

In any case, she doesn’t need someone by her side to be happy. “I believe that happiness must be worked for, that you can put joy, generosity, empathy on your part. Trust others and yourself. Choose to be in the light. There is a question of attitude: we all have bad days, shitty days, when you feel very small and need someone to take care of you. It is part of the life experience. But you have to keep in mind that this moment will pass.