Blanca Portillo’s speech at the Malaga Festival always receives a lot of applause

It’s been a few days since Blanca Portillo received a lifetime achievement award at Malaga Film Festival. But the networks continue to broadcast messages of admiration and applause for his gesture. And it is that the actress came to receive it in jeans and a T-shirt.

After criticizing Berta Vazquez due to her physical change or lack of makeup Sara Salamo on the Goya Awards red carpet, she went even further.

And it wasn’t about neglect or protest, it was his way of sending a message. “I will try to read it without crying. You might be wondering what this mamarracha dressed like this is doing on a night of luxury and splendor. It was a very thoughtful decisionbegan his acceptance speech.

“Tonight, I am not here to defend a specific character or profession. I am here because you have decided to value the work of nearly 40 years devoted, in an almost unhealthy way, to interpretation. And since that’s what you value I want to receive it as a person, not as an actress. And that’s just who I am: Blanca. One person,” he continued.

“A human being stripped of luxuries and disguises, with no additives, dyes or preservatives. A 59 year old woman most feared is scared and cold and in desperate need of loving care and support. That he prefers jeans to evening dresses, beers with friends to champagne in the evenings, that he prefers love to admiration”, he assured on his personal tastes.

The fight of Brad Pitt and Blanca Portillo

And this sense of humor that characterizes her was not lacking: “brad pitt and I… we have things in common. We are almost the same age, we have exactly the same nose, identical, four of his can be taken from mine, but I am identical. Too bad he was born in Oklahoma and not in Burgos because he lost the opportunity to meet the love of his life, it’s me, no Angelina Jolie. The other thing we have in common is that we We had to fight against our physique for our acting abilities to be valued, but the opposite. He fought against his beauty to prove that he is more than a beautiful face and a beautiful body and me, against my lack of beauty, to show that, without it, one can also be an actress”.

And with this idea, she wanted to send her message on such a special evening for her. “I want to take advantage of this recognition to launch a message of strength and hope to all those who have already been told that they need the physical to devote themselves to this profession. To devote yourself to it, you need love, effort, training, the ability to dream what does not exist, the courage to overcome fear, respect for yourself and those around you. It takes culture, work and devotion. All of this increases with years and practice, everything else, time takes away,” he concluded.

From that moment, the networks were filled with congratulations and messages supporting a discourse that is sorely lacking in a society where appearance is rewarded. It’s been two days, but it seems that Blanca’s comments continue to generate empathy on social media.

Here are many more speeches like this.