Three months have passed since the actress who made a permanent place for herself in the film industry thanks to I am Juani,. An illness that the Madrid performer, who in 2022 won the Goya for best fiction short film as director, screenwriter and co-producer of the terrifying Wolf Totem, carried with great discretion. After his death, on August 24, there were countless messages of mourning from people in the sector. Especially felt was , who shared his life with her for 13 years. Sergio Peris-Mencheta, who is still alive, said goodbye to his partner a day after her death: “It hurts us that you are not here,” he wrote on the account where he has more than 90,000 followers.
Now, the actor and director, who in August, as a recognition of her survival and her career, wanted to pay tribute to her friend with a long dedication on her profile. “… And I find this photo that I stole from her a few years ago in Los Angeles. And I’ve been keeping Vero in my mind for days. Awake, in dreams and in sleep. And memories come to me of her always going out of ‘the ordinary’. Shedding herself. Always laughing, always with laughter as her flag. It’s the scene I have of her. I don’t fantasize it correctly, wow,” the dedication begins.
“With her the routine was always broken, and life appeared, damn it. It was a continuous surprise. With her the ordinary was ruined. As if she had come to this world to make the most of the 40 years she was going to live. As if her higher self already knew that she would be a shooting star, and posed a question to her. all-in at every moment, no matter how everyday. As if he had incarnated to give us all a lesson on how to live a life,” he writes. And he continues: “Even in the photocalls He didn’t pose, he played in another league, he gave the impression of thinking: ‘Don’t take this so seriously, in 100 years everyone will be bald.’ And that way of looking, as if with a telescopic sight behind which a wonderland was imagined. He played in another league. As if he had come to this world just to remember what living was about, and to laugh a little at the seriousness, the worries, the stresses… as if with his telescopic eyes he already knew more than anyone else that we are only passing through, and that we are not as important as we live…”.
Unlike Echegui, the actor has made the entire process public. Earlier this year, he published the book 730 dinas, Illness as a mirror of timein which he reveals those things that he considers essential to live life to the fullest. “I don’t change myself for the Sergio I was before the illness. I don’t recommend anyone go through what I’ve gone through, but once you go through it I face it fully and also its consequences. My whole body hurts, but I’ve gotten used to it and I’ve accepted the pain. What’s good about this? That I’m permanently in contact with my body. Before, I did everything without realizing it, drinking, going to the bathroom, breathing. Now, suddenly, the pain, the nausea, the discomfort makes me take care of my body, makes me take care of myself at every moment. Is what is happening to me bad? Of course, it’s a bitch, but blessed be this bitch,” with THE COUNTRY.
In her tribute to the actress, Peris-Mencheta ends the dedication by honoring her friend’s time in life: “Yes, Echegui was the paradigm of the desire to live without restrictions. At every moment. As if it were her hallmark. As if she discovered a toy store or an amusement park at every moment. As if she had no time to waste on elevator conversations… I can’t imagine her in an elevator having an elevator conversation. I imagine her always entering without a doubt. An elevator with a glanders neighbor but she brings up a topic and it’s not ‘talking about the weather’. It’s that she has noticed something that only she would notice, and like a girl it catches her attention, and like a girl in a toy store she mentions glanders to her neighbor and something breaks and that neighbor turns out to be not so glanders. And it ends: “Note: never has a post contained the word life so much.”
