Hidden behind the easy joke, there is one that is not seen on television. When scratching, the intellectual concerns of the film producer appear. The pragmatic of the hotel entrepreneur. Or the emotional of the father who lives the first times of his teenage son. Shaved only by demands of the script of his next series and with sports running quite “Molonas”, Valls (Valencia, 50 years) enjoy today in the shadow than under the spotlights. And that has been chaining series, films, contests for three decades … the last, . He show musical that premieres tonight on TVE, after The revoltin collaboration with Lacoproductory (Property of Hurry, Editor of El País), which is also a producer.
P. Is it a business shark?
R. No no. On the contrary! [se ríe]. I am very romantic. I have more ideas than profitability.
P. Doesn’t the benefit really look?
R. I look that the business is not deficient because I am not asshole either, but a part of what I win with entertainment I invest in things that give me.
P. For example, your rice brand. How is it going?
R. We present it In a month! I am also a partner in a couple of restaurants. I don’t want to stay where people places me.
P. Are you going to put your face in the package like the gazpacho of?
R. Of course, of course [carcajada]. I like to compare it with George Clooney’s tequila or Paul Newman’s sauces, but yes.
I have asked my financial advisor: “How long do I have to work to live from income?”
P. What really has fun now is to produce cinema, right?
R. A bit. My other goal was to retire and dedicate myself to playing tennis and to make paellas.
P. Retire with 50?
R. Yes, why not?
P. I don’t believe it …
R. I really tell you. I recently asked my financial advisor: “How long do I have to work to live on income?” I want to choose the projects a lot. And I’m close to that.
There is a lot of producer that makes fiction to ask for a subsidy “
P. When you are going to sell something to a platform, do you treat you better for being Arturo Valls?
R. It helps to open the office door before an independent producer, but it does not work to be told.
P. How are those meetings?
R. Very funny. My partner carries the protocol and institutional part. And I put the click. When I started in this I realized that there is a lot of producer that makes fiction to ask for a subsidy, take any script and take a percentage. I do not conceive that. I have to excite the idea.
P. Playing the comic role, do you take less seriously?
R. At first, yes, but you win respect as you produce movies. That happens to me more in life. People perceive me as someone who does not deepen, but does not obsess me.
Divism works, it seems that you have to be a moron to treat you better “
P. Have you never had stress?
R. Yes, when I have been combiningNow I fall!, Your face sounds to me And a movie, and suddenly, I could get some eruption in my skin, but I try not to take me very seriously. I see fellow actors who give importance … there are people who levita. I better take weight.
P. Some go with an entourage around …
R. And I get there with my suitcase … They are ways of understanding this. For me it is any job, but they consider that going with a stylist, press manager or assistant puts them more in value.
P. Don’t you get angry?
R. And so much. Above all, the one who goes from Divo, treats badly and asks for things in a bad way. I can’t bear that these people do more. Divism works. I have spoken with many colleagues. “Male, do we have to be more morons to treat us better?” It is tremendous. And it happens.
P. Among young generations?
R. With people who have just started. I remember the time of Camera Coffee that people arrived from Big Brother To makeup with demands that you said: “But, let’s see, why this arrogance?” And also passes with Influencers. Then you see Carmen Machi, with talent and incredible careers, which are very education.
P. It is usually defined as “empathetic.” Going with that attitude for life, doesn’t it make you more vulnerable?
R. Yes, but I avoid the conflict and I do not delve into the Chungas things, which happen to me too. Although, with the crisis of the 50 I am noticing that the conflicting moments are lengthened more …
P. What conflicts?
R. Time, health, see that you no longer have the same energy or endurance, I am thinking of the hangers [se ríe] Or realize that your parents are an age.
At 50, you no longer have the same energy or endurance in the hangover “
P. What films do you consume?
R. I am introducing my son in the world Wilder, Azcona and Berlanga. In Spain, we have made the best comedy in the world and we have lost it. The public still wants to think less, but who educates who? On the TV of before there were debates, culturally higher programs, but, suddenly, someone discovers that the realitiesthe heart or the superbasic comedy and the other is forgotten.
P. This more intellectual part never shows it. Because?
R. Not to boast. I like independent cinema, alternative music, the funkhe jazz… Really, my cinema has to do with the author. My lawyer tells me: “Let’s see if we do a commercial and win a money.”
P. Have you seen the series?
R. Yes, it didn’t seem to me so much. I think that the sequence plane likes those who do that the viewer, but the issue he raises around social networks is very good. I hope you move this to the kids and lift the head of the screen.
I tell my son to practice intelligent hedonism: drink without alcohol “
P. What vital advice does your son give?
R. I tell him to be epicurean as his father, to practice intelligent hedonism: drink without alcoholing, buy without borrowing, eating without getting fed up. Not for a matter of temperance but of independence.
P. Tell me a defect of yours.
R. The laziness. With [David] I have spoken it many times. If we have done well, what would happen if we really curmented it? I never start to crush a script or study a character … It’s curious.
P. Sounds out …
R. Because? It’s the truth. The talent that I have is to like and transmit enthusiasm. I have taken advantage of Guay.
If you are an idiot, fame power “
P. Since it started with twenty -five in the Whoever falls falls The Wyoming He has not made political humor again …
R. It is another way to avoid conflict. Why position yourself in public? There are people who are dedicated to the culture that believe they are in a watchtower and in a position to claim something. Whoever wants to use that great amplifier, but we are not obliged. I have only done it with Mazón because it seems to me something indefensible.
P. Why have the format not connected on your return?
R. Leaving it intact could be old. And renew it distorting it. Now in social networks, there are ingenious questions, memes … Perhaps a weekly review program of today made less sense.
P. How has the ego lowered?
R. There is no manual … They say that fame makes you an idiot, but if you are an idiot, fame enhances it. Not having an excessive ego has to do with the personality of each one.
P. According to your manager’s calculations, when can you be removed?
R. Cinco You add more and then I will dedicate myself to exclusive production. That would be my dreamed pseudorate.
