Interview to Bernat Quintana

He was born in Sabadell, and from six to twelve years, he attended to theater classes at school, age from which he started working professionally. First in the series Laura and then in El Cor de la Ciutat, in which he plays as Max. He has done a couple of TV-movie: Valeria and Jo, el desconegut (Me, the stranger/unknown), this year 2007. He has also appeared briefly in the cinema and has done two theater plays in TNC (TNC stands for Teatre Nacional de Catalunya or National Theater from Catalonia): El criptograma (The Cryptogram) and Bernadeta xoc (The crash from Bernadeta); and two other plays in the Romea theater: J.R.S, de dotze anys (for twelve years) and Lliure, Davant de l'home (Free, in front of the man). All this job has been done without a manager, and he isn’t thinking of acting in the rest of the country at the moment.

When you were twelve, did you know how to get moved, cry or laugh when the script required it?

I took it very seriously, but I didn’t quite rationalize the process of the character’s creation. I answered the director’s indications very intuitively and I took it as a game.

You have touched very compromising topics since you where very little, such as pederasty, alzheimer and homosexuality.

They are proposals that I have been given, I like to do compromising parts. I haven’t received any trivial offer, but when it happens, I’ll tell you if I’m accepting it or not.


What studies have you made in your formation?

I have studied with Boris Rotenstein, in the Theather’s College. Then I left “El Cor” to study Philosophy during two years, studies than I now have on hiatus to be able to work.


What difficulty mark would you give to your profession?

It depends on the moment that I’m on; now nearly a 10, I have enough jobs and I like the roles that I’m doing. But maybe you’ll find me a year from now and I’ll tell you a zero. You go trough a lot of ups and downs as an actor.


When will you stop being a teenager in acting?

When have beard [laughts]. All the actors are conditionated by our phisical appearance, the body is our working tool. I won’t be able to play the roles I’m doing at the moment in a few years time.

What it’s like kissing actors and/or actresses that you don’t like?

As actors, we have to impose feelings and likings. Even if you don’t like that person, you have to kiss him/her, it is my job. A kiss is relatively easy to do.

For which role would you give all the gold in the world for?

I have read Txejov, Shakespeare, Thomas Bernhard. Their works are vey interesting and I would like to play the ones that I have seen. I like to buy books, reading makes me feel good.

Why is Max one of the characters most loved by the audience?

I imagine it’s because he is neither a good or a bad person, and that is very important. He is a young main character, and a lot of people identify with him.

And with the homosexuality, have you noticed changes (in the society)?

Of course, it’s a little sensitive topic. People feel uneasy, they don’t carry it/sort it out good or with naturality . They come and say it to you “What sort of things do they make you do with your character, huh?


The graciencs (People from Gracia, a neighbourhood from Barcelona – because the interview is for a newspaper from there) would like to know if you are as shy as you seem.

I am a little reserved. I was twelve years old and I didn’t want to appear on TV, because I did not know how that would affect me/ what an impact would it have for me. I didn’t want it to affect my daily life or feel observed/watched. I wanted to protect myself and not end up hurt. The director from the series and my parents talked to me and convinced me.

You have touched happiness when....

I have been doing what I wanted.

Edited now =3
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