Before becoming a famous actress and a style icon with almost three million followers on Instagram, Paula Echevarría (Candás, Asturias, August 7, 1977) was a ch
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Comment Before becoming a famous actress and a style icon with almost three million followers on Instagram, Paula Echevarría (Candás, Asturias, August 7, 1977) was an anonymous girl who was beginning to make her way into the working world working as a flight attendant at the Gijón trade fair. "With my first salary I bought a stereo for my room and some brand boots, whims that went a little out of my parents' budget," recalls the 42-year-old Asturian performer, train driver's daughter and housewife . At that time he had not yet considered making the leap to Madrid, but it would not take long to overcome the first castings before debuting in television series such as When leaving class, police or classmates . Musa de José Luis Garci (who directed it in Luz de domingo and Sangre de mayo ), over two decades has starred in Spanish fictions such as Gran Reserva, Velvet or Los Nuestro .
Thanks to his role in Velvet , where he embodied a humble dressmaker who falls in love with the heir of some fashion galleries, his popularity rose like foam (on December 20 the last chapter of Velvet Collection is issued, where he meets with actors from the previous three seasons). In 2010 he opened the blog After the track of Paula in the magazine Elle and little by little he was dragging a legion of followers who are still hooked to their styles - mix of low cost garments and luxury firms - and cosmetic advice. A simple haircut can report more than 122,000 likes on Instagram . Qualified as it girl and influencer, although she denies those labels, her fresh and natural image has seduced fashion brands. And she, businesswoman almost by accident, has profited as nobody to be the girl next door. "I have never missed work, whether on television, film or advertising, and that has been one of my biggest lotteries," says Paula, who has just released the comedy If I was rich and has two miniseries produced by Mediaset.
Woman on a mobile attached, these days also puts face to the campaign of Samsung #somosSMARTgirls with 10 women "special, authentic and real" who use technology to improve their day to day. After a five-hour photo session, tired but happy - "they let me be me" - she attends us by mobile phone on the way from the studio to her new home; a house of 500 m2 located in Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid), where he lives with his daughter Daniella (12 years), the result of his relationship with singer David Bustamante . We start talking about politics (the interview takes place on the eve of general elections, the second in a year), and we end up talking about the offenses that criticize her on social networks for saying what she thinks.
Are women more skilled than men to reach agreements? It depends, sometimes we are more complex. I believe that understanding is not a matter of sexes, and more in this age when we want to eliminate all stereotypes about men and women. Understanding is a matter of people. Would you lend your image to a certain party if you asked for it? No, because in addition not everyone is right or wrong at all times. It seems that if you get wet for a game you will always belong to him, and I claim the right to change your mind. Neither all politicians do everything wrong, nor all do everything right. According to Fernando Trueba, "it is a serious mistake to believe that Spanish cinema is left-wing." Do you agree? Nor do I do surveys among my classmates to find out which match they are from. Today there are many people in the center, right? Change of third. In the comedy 'If I were rich', she plays the "methoment" friend of the protagonist marriage. The husband has 25 million euros and, as he is in the process of divorce, decides to hide it from his wife. What would you do instead? The question itself has its own. You imagine that you are separating from your partner with marital assets and discover that they have touched 25 million ... You would have to give him half! Very well you have to go the relationship with your ex to want to give him 12 and a half million as well. What would I do instead? I do not know i do not know. The politically correct thing would be to tell him that I would share the prize with him, but he would have to see me in that situation. It all depends on the relationship you have with your ex ... What is the first thing I would do if I touched that millionaire? I am very happy with my life right now, so I don't know what would change her. I am happy living as I live, with my work, with my new house ... Many people say that if I played the lottery I would stop working, but I suppose I would miss my job and that would make me more unhappy. What is the money for? To live more comfortably and allow yourself more luxuries, but having more money can also generate more uneasiness. Once I asked Marisa Paredes about the economic insecurity of the actors and she replied: "People believe that we earn a lot of money and that we spend it Olympic. It is not true. We must be very careful when the time comes for what they better not call you anymore. " Have you come to have that uncertainty? Of course, we actors never know a fixed salary. For a season you may be making money because you are making a series, but then you throw yourself a year or two without doing anything. That's why we always have to be a little ant, for when skinny cows come.
Since he debuted on television in early 2000, his career seems to have been shot. Do you feel that the lottery has touched you? Yes, I have never missed work, whether it be in theater, cinema or television or advertising, and that has been one of my biggest lotteries, because the lottery is not just to touch you a tenth of 25 million euros. How important is the luck factor? Whether an actor is caught or not for a job does not mean that he is better or worse than his teammates. It is simply a matter of whether you fit or not, whether the casting director sees or not that you are the character he is looking for. And then you also have to work it out, huh? I have been very lucky in these 20 years of profession, but I have also worked. From outside she looks like a lucky woman: beautiful, successful actress, protagonist of advertising campaigns, 2.9 million followers on Instagram, happy in love [her current partner is former footballer Miguel Torres], casoplon with pool ... Is it I pray everything that glitters? I feel like a very lucky person. It seems that in this life it is sad to say that you are happy, but I always say that I do not have to apologize to anyone because life is going well for me. And today I have no reason to complain. Do you have the impression that you were born with a star? What I have is a very positive attitude, and I think that good luck should be called. I try to see the glass half full and I see the positive part of everything. That is, I strive to be happy. In my same situation, having my same life, someone who does not have my attitude might think that he is a miserable person. It all depends on the eye with which you look. And where does that attitude come from? I don't know, I think it's from birth, it goes in the genes. Besides, I come from a family that always tried to pull me a lot. My parents always had a party for everything. The fact of making the weekly purchase was a cause for celebration: "You will see how well we will have a good time!" Everything became something special, and in the end you learn to look at everything from that prism. We celebrated birthdays, Christmas, the Magi, with great uproar. I also try to educate my daughter in that line, because it is the little things of everyday life that make you happy, right? Have you already taught your daughter Daniella to play the bagpipes? [Laughs] Playing the bagpipes is very difficult. I went to class for a year and I think I didn't pass four grades. And I played it with Hevia at the Canditas Bagpipes Festival and they almost threw me out. He stars in the Special Out of Series Gifts. What is the last gift you received? A lamp from Wonder Woman, the comic book superhero. I collect Marvel dolls and objects. Reviewing old interviews, I read headlines such as "The Golden Girl", "Everyone wants Paula" ... Have you ever stopped to analyze the phenomenon Paula Echevarría? Only when someone, like you now Same, he asks me. If not, it is something I do not repair. It just flows. I am very grateful for all these assessments, but deep down it also escapes me. I never got to understand certain things. What I like is that people, when they follow you, do so freely. I've been in the profession for 20 years, about 15 in the public window, and I think my followers would have stopped following me if they had detected a certain imposture. Is normality your greatest strength? I don't like to pretend or wear masks. That is why women do not see me as a threat: I am like them. Luckily or unfortunately, the press follows me and sometimes the paparazzi catch me shopping, picking up the girl at school or going out at night. What everyone does. Sometimes they take me out on scallops and without combing and sometimes more neat, but I have never hidden. I get into a Gran Vía store at rush hour and ... Are you sure? I fear that it would not go unnoticed. Despite the possible burdens, I have never wanted to give up a normal life. And more since I'm a mother. If I have to go to a concert of a group that likes or get into a crowded beach, then I do it, especially to prevent her from stopping living those things that are normal.
His Instagram motto is "Change is the only constant" [change is the only thing that remains], while defining his current moment as "evolution." How does it translate into personal and professional terrain? The day we stop evolving, bad. Even my parents evolve every day: with 69 years they have to keep learning, because mobile phones, tablets have arrived ... and it costs them, but they try to handle these new tools. Obviously, at 42 I have more experience and I turn that into my work. I have never been a method actress; I don't think you have to scourge to get into the role, but life makes you quiet and the callus makes you know yourself better. It is not that I take away fears, when you are young, unconsciousness gives you a lot of peace of mind, but it does give you some serenity. When you have been through certain things it is easier to look for them within you. I guess his style of dress has also evolved a lot ... I don't know if having starred in 'Velvet' [set in a 50s fashion gallery] has made him interested in haute couture ... Velvet has been a stage of my wonderful life, and you always expect a character to come back to appear as much as Ana Ribera. But it has not influenced my love for fashion too much. Of course, my style has evolved, although I have been wearing clothes since I am 18 years old. This week we have known the death of Margarita Salas. On one occasion I asked him if he would have preferred to be an artist instead of a scientist and he replied: "I would not change my life for that of a famous artist. But yes, fame is pleasant." Would you have preferred to be a scientist instead of an actress? I would not leave my profession even if they touched me 25 million in the bonoloto. I am very happy doing what I do. [However, Paula Echevarría is well aware of the drawbacks of fame: last October she denounced a stranger who continually harassed her on social networks and even appeared at the shootings.] She has a legion of followers in her networks, but she doesn't know Consider the typical 'influencer'. How is it different? I don't do that; My profession is another. I take photos of the blog in my spare time, in the breaks I have while I shoot a series, a movie or an advertisement. But as a hobby, not as a way of life. Once he was asked if he considered himself a feminist and he replied: "I define myself as a person. I think you don't have to be a macho or a feminist; the extremes are never good for one side or the other. ". His statements provoked angry criticism of the collective. Are you tired of the politically correct, of the 'offenders'? Yes, yes, yes. Totally. Offenders offend me. I will not go deeper into the subject. What attitude do you take before the 'trolls'? None, I don't give them a ball. You can't have such thin skin with everything. I think you have to let people breathe, not everyone can say like you. In the end they are the least condescending. I am not going to defend myself against anything. I am a person who sleeps very quietly at night. In the movie 'Luz de domingo' [2007], the mayor of an Asturian town releases: "Women and laws are there to violate them, whenever they cause us problems." What do you think of those court rulings that describe a group rape of sexual abuse instead of sexual assault? I think it is barbaric, and more like the mother of a 12-year-old girl. Starring Samsung's #somosSMARTgirls campaign with ten other renowned professionals. Do you consider yourself a mobile addict or do you know how to take advantage of your Galaxy Note 10 + without falling into dependence? There are days and days ... There are some that I get tired of being aware of the mobile and others that do not even remember where I left it. But for me, and I think that for everyone today, it is essential. There I carry everything! My phone, my phonebook, my purse, my camera ... everything! By the way, has Daniella already asked for a cell phone, even if it is only to spy on her 'looks' on Instagram? She already has it for a long time. I tried to have it soon to teach you how to use it well, before the age of danger arrives. On December 20 the last chapter of 'Velvet Collection' is issued. What ending would you like for Ana Ribera, the role of seamstress she played for three seasons? I can only tell him that I want the one he will have. With that I tell you everything. Always connected
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