At eighty-nine years old, actress María Galiana exhibits a lexicon that is astonishingly modern. She speaks like a teenager. He says “fucking master” and “bro”, and “quinquis” with an astonishing naturalness. This Friday she can be seen again on the big screen with a role in the film ‘black society’which portrays the Chinese mafia of Barcelona. He defines it as a “quite unique film, about gangsters, but the protagonists are losers who keep loot from the Chinese mafia in Barcelona.” In fact, “they are three idiots, who have no other name, narrow-gauge quinquis, who come up with this impressive robbery and it ends badly, of course.”
But hey, what about this vocabulary? “It’s because I hear it from my grandchildren,” he explains. «I have been a teacher for almost forty years, surrounded by young people, and I like to ask them, for example, what is this thing they say now about ‘bro’, and they tell me that it comes from the English ‘brother’. “I like to study the lexicon, I draw nourishment from these words that I hear from young people.” Each generation has its own way of speaking, she adds: “When I was young, we used to say ‘maquea’ or ‘hesitant’, and now they say, for example, ‘random’, to refer to something random.”
Beyond this long-term lexicon, Galiana has accumulated a good number of kilometers behind her, from theater to theater. Even so, it is difficult for him to find a bad route: «I like travel so much…». Remember, of course, one that he did in the fifties, when he was at the Teatro Español Universitario. They went from Seville to Badajoz: “For us it was wonderful, an adventure, that the show we had put on could be performed in Badajoz.” They embarked on “one of those trains that I believe were still made of coal, and on the way back, very close to Seville, in Los Rosales, it broke down.” He adds, as if things were different now, that then these incidents “were very normal.” «We spent the night on that train, in the dark, with the wooden seats, dead of sleep and hunger. I remember it as a nightmare, and it could easily have been seventy years ago.
He assures that he never has a bad memory of a trip, “even if it is long, or even if I get tired.” Because Maria Galianaalthough it may not seem like it, he also gets tired: «I have my ailments, like everyone else. “In the mornings I wake up with pain, it hurts a lot,” she comments with that Andalusian tone. Age does not forgive, and she is one of the lucky ones. We now have less consideration for older people than before. “There are many dependent people and they are not taken into account as the elderly were before, when there were very few of them and if they lived for many years, it was because they were in good health.”
Immediately the conversation returns to language. It’s all connected. “It’s not that the elderly are not valued, it’s that reading is not valued, for example.” “People don’t read anymore,” he laments. Why is this happening? Out of conformity, the actress says: “Young people are content with listening to music on their cell phones. As bad as it sounds. I am a very music lover, and I go to the opera and concerts. But young people are satisfied with some things… The same applies to cinema: «Watch movies on your mobile. For God’s sake, can you watch movies on your cell phone? With that photography, the music, the magnificent frames that some have, well no, they are satisfied with seeing them on the little screen. “Culture has become dull in many aspects, and that results in the way older people are treated,” he concludes, to finish: “People, and especially young people, does not read newspapershe doesn’t enjoy what the language entails and of course, that’s how we get to the fucking master, and the random and the bro: it’s all the same path.
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