The eternal commissioner is happy in his garden

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He became famous with ‘Blue Summer’, but since he stopped playing ‘boy on a bicycle’, he didn’t feel categorized. A thromboembolism nearly cost him his life and now he spends up to three hours a day in the gym

It’s hard to find another actor who has played more cops on screen. The bailiff Leiva from “There Shall Be No Peace For The Wicked” (for which he was nominated for a Goya), the Sub-Inspector Charlie Márquez from first “El Comisario” and later “El Príncipe”; or for six years Emilio Bremón, the superior boss of ‘Serve and protect’ (Plano a Plano), who returned to La 1 just after 1250 chapters. Little to do with reality. Juanjo Artero happily puts his hands away in his garden, where courgettes, aubergines, endless aromatic herbs and tomatoes already appear. His life changed in 2019 when he got a thromboembolism: he stops smoking, sports and eats healthy. “I even lowered the plunger at work.” Well, that’s what he says: he gets up at 4:30 pm, does theater and in July he returns to the movies.

Monday

4:30 am I have the first set so I get up at sunrise. A shower and a coffee with milk, at that moment nothing else comes to mind. I use the small hour I have until the production company comes to pick me up by car to go over the script. I still have 45 minutes to Cobo Calleja, the industrial area of ​​Fuenlabrada, surrounded by Chinese warehouses where we shot the series.

6.30 am in the morning. After going through makeup and costumes, we started reading the scenes. It is believed that the director has already told the technicians what scenes they are playing, which set they are going to use… I am not allowed to say much, but I start with a chat with my son in the series (which he gives life to Jan Buxaderas) , family problems and about his future which are then intertwined with the police case we are dealing with.

12.00. We stopped for twenty minutes to eat a gazpacho and a hot sandwich. This season they’ve reduced my workload a bit, I asked because I’ve been linking TV series for 7 years and I’m burned out. I also do theater and in July I will start on a film, a short role but which makes me enthusiastic. So far I can read.

Tuesday

3:30 p.m. Ever since I had a thromboembolism, I’ve been trying to take care of myself. More hours of sleep (if not at night, then at least a nap), healthy eating, exercising… I went out for a bit before filming and I take the opportunity to hit the gym. With so much stress, the body appreciates it. First some back stretches on the mat and then Pilates. I do a lot of aerobic exercise: an hour on the elliptical and I study; half an hour of cycling and studying, some treadmill and study… Then you weigh and swim, which is important. So I can spend three hours.

7:00 pm. I cook just enough, sometimes lasagna with slices of zucchini, or espencat, with oil, garlic and aromatic herbs. I really like salmorejo or spoon dishes, the kind that are made over a fire in a clay pot, but at this time of day I don’t complicate my life. If they leave me something prepared, I attack what they do to me; if not, I make a salad of avocados, fresh cheese and tomatoes from the garden. I have many, from a dozen classes. Still a little green, but the bushes are bursting.

9:00 am. My parents both live and they are a very big influence. He was a cardiovascular surgeon, he operated on Franco and later Pasionaria and also some terrorists. His job was to save lives. He has always been a horny man, bringing us home videos of his operations. That’s how I grew up, alternating cartoons with tapes shot in ‘super 8’ of open heart surgery. Years later, I went to the operating room myself to record them and later project them onto his students.

Wednesday

10:00 am I love being asked about ‘Blue Summer’, it reminds me of a time when we were just like the Beatles. I think it would have been different if I had played ‘kid on a bike’ all my life, but that has not been the case. Last season I spent a week in the series with María Garralón (the unforgettable Julia), a wonderful woman, to eat her. How we enjoy

4:15 pm I played ‘Entre copas’ at the Reina Victoria theater for five weeks, until June 5th. It’s a dramatic comedy about a midlife crisis (yes, I know, I’m almost 60). Sometimes a performance in Valencia coincides with the series, so we balance schedules and if it doesn’t fit, there’s always the AVE. In July I have a small part in a film and in August I have to tour the play for two days through El Puerto de Santa María and Alcalá de Henares, although I won’t resume the tour as such until September.

8:00 pm. Because I’ve been good and studied all that I had in anticipation, all the time is mine. The garden relaxes me immensely, just like when it’s time to plant, when it’s time to water or fertilize. I do not use pesticides, all organic products: black soap, neem oil, bacteria thurigiensis. I’ll be getting cucumber and zucchini, tomato and carrots soon too. There are asparagus, aubergines, arugula, basil, rosemary, thyme, garlic…

Thursday

9:00 am. What a job, the covid test turned out positive for me (we do the test every 5 days). I have been vaccinated and had not contracted it until now, but at work it happens with some regularity. The week of my birthday… and look what a present comes with it! I’ve notified the production people, because we have to go all the way around the turn plan, look what a job it is. Now it’s time to take it easy until the next exam.

4:00 in the afternoon. Now that I don’t have any scripts to review, I’m taking the opportunity to listen to music. I like flamenco, jazz and the music of my generation, especially Serrat -he is the best-, Sabina, Pedro Guerra or Rosana. Also survival shows [Risas]type ‘My family lives in Alaska’ or whoever takes a man to an island full of alligators and he has to search for life.

22,000 hours. I have been with Real Madrid from the cradle, just like my grandfather, my father, my uncle… in my case it was imposed. But look, I wish Barca all the best, that it comes out of the crisis; they have magnified us and we them. And who doesn’t want to see him like that, worse for him.

midnight. The whole family goes out with the dogs, although they spend the day in the garden, but I am more at night. ‘Jeti’, a Westin. and ‘Chibi’, with no defined breed, with long hair like a border collie. I also have a cat, ‘Merlí’, like the series my kids liked. On the contrary, now there are two, because a friend of my daughter’s cat just had a litter and they approved us with another one. I want to call him Benito, just like Don Gato, we’ll see if I get my way.

Friday

11:30. I’ve played so many police officers and people from the Interior that all I have left is to be a minister. I think everything has its cycles and now it’s time for this one. But I’m not like them at all; I’m a good guy and a bit of a clown. In the piece I’m doing it says ‘to live is to live, that’s the way it is’. You have to squeeze the orange well and get all the juice out of it. Seeing the wolf’s ears, I chose to go upstairs. And I’m in that.

Source: La Verdad

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