Friday, March 29

Interview Arturo Valls, Two years and one day at Atresmedia | «Humour should have no limits because it is fiction»


Arturo Valles.

Star in the comedy ‘Two years and a day’ on Atresplayer Premium, where a famous comedian ends up in prison for a religious offense

In prison for telling a joke. This is how actor and presenter Arturo Valls (Valencia, 47 years old) ends in the comedy ‘Dos años y un día’, the new original fiction now available on Atresplayer Premium. It tells the story of Carlos Ferrer, a successful comedian with a perfect life until 18 fateful seconds change it forever. His appearance at the proclamation of Carzuelo de la Frontera dressed as the Virgen del Cierzo, as a Holy Week parade, unleashed the indignation of the association of coastal lawyers, who denounced him for a crime against religious sentiments. The complaint is admitted for processing and the judge, a devotee of the Virgin of his town and also a costalero, sentences him to prison. Now, Carlos must adapt to his new life in prison where he will have to spend two years and one day. Adriana Torrebejano, Amaia Salamanca, Fernando Gil, Michael John Treanor, Javier Botet, Manuel Galiana, Santi Ugalde, Paco Churruca, Nene and Jorge Rueda, among others, complete the cast of the fiction, which will have a first season of six episodes.

-Have you been inspired by a real character to build the protagonist?

-When you see him you ask yourself ‘who does he remind you of, right?’ (laughs). I have been inspired by myself or by that presenter profile that has been handled in the whitest, generalist humor and a character in the style of Roberto Leal, Manel Fuentes, Arguiñano or Bertín Osborne. People who like each other and who, suddenly, could find themselves in prison for an unfortunate joke.

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Have you stopped to think what you would do in that situation?

-I’d have a terrible time. You would have no choice but to serve a sentence and traffic in selfies inside the prison, which is what the protagonist does. Try to look for the positive side if there is something good being deprived of liberty. I am a person who adapts to everything and I am very adaptable. If I’ve gone to a party where I don’t like the music, I try to adapt and like it. I have always been adapting to the circumstances. It’s my personality.

– Is fiction a criticism of the thin skin of society or of justice that condemns jokes?

-The condemnation for a joke is excessive. You can never put a comedian in jail for a joke. We have to look for another type of resolution, some apologies and see in what situation and what is the context in which it has been done. I am one of those who think that humor should have no limits because it is fiction and it is a lie. Even so, they exist but they depend on where and to whom you tell them. A joke about the holocaust told by a Nazi is not the same as if it is made by a Jew. There should be no limits to humor as long as it’s fiction, nor does drama, where here you can talk about everything you want. Not humorously, because you can offend someone and end up in jail. It shouldn’t happen.

– Should the limits of humor be set by oneself?

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-Yes, but it’s also that there are already jokes that don’t make sense. Which are not funny. The quality of the joke is another of the limits of humor. There are jokes that are offensive but because they are bad and society has evolved. You can’t perpetuate clichés or behaviors, but it must be in a natural and organic way. There can be no self-censorship. There are jokes that are no longer funny and it is something that has also happened to me.

-Like the protagonist of fiction, have you ever laughed at one of your jokes?

-I have developed something that, ten years into ‘Now I Fall!’ and in ‘Fall who falls’, you sense who your audience is and who your interlocutors are, if that person is going to fit the joke or you see, at one point, that the joke is not liked and you try to soften it. You develop something that you don’t know how to explain. If it has happened to me, I have noticed it and I have apologized. But there was always something prior, audience analysis, whether you could make a joke or not.

“Ten Wonderful Years”

-How do you see comedy in Spain?

-I see her well. Thanks to the platforms, the range of developing different tones and forms of humor has been opened. They have been fictions like ‘Vergüenza’, ‘Vota Juan’. You can make series and comedies with different registers. It is in very good condition. I see proposals with great comedians, such as Carmen Machi or Javier Cámara, who are authentic comedians who can be compared internationally. We have good comedy in Spain because we also have a good tradition, from Berlanga or Cuerda.

-What memory do you have of ‘Now I Fall!’?

-It was a very good memory. I feel bad, in fact, I’m thinking of doing a monologue in the theater called ‘Sorry’, to apologize to the audience that was orphaned in the afternoons. The daily programs generate like a kind of family. I miss the inside jokes and the synergies that are created and grow from one day to the next. That only happens in the daily formats. There were many things that only the most faithful viewer understood, but I’m happy with the decision, to be a little freer and have time to do other kinds of things. They were ten wonderful years.


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