![]() This is a struggle that involves everyone - men and women. Women have entered the labour market, and nothing is going to stop us. There will be more female directors, screenwriters and producers. Now that she is in her 40s, the question is inevitable: are there enough roles? “There are more,” she says. There’s an obsession with showing everything.”īeing an actress is a tricky profession for women of a certain age. It makes me sad that now with social networks it seems that you have to project an image of perfection or commitment. I’ve managed to keep my private life in that field. It makes sense: “I’ve always wanted to focus exclusively on my profession - I’m an actress, that’s what I do I also dance. Marta Etura photographed at the flower shop Margarita se llama mi amor, in Madrid.ĭespite having had roles in well-known films for the general public such as Celda 211, The Impossible or Dark Blue Almost Dark, to name a few, Marta Etura can walk in the centre of Madrid or go into a restaurant without being noticed. Like what happened with this film- you go away from home and delve into a story along with a team of more than 100 people, 12 hours a day for six months.” However, what cinema generates, with the crew and all, is very powerful. I love cinema, but theatre is quite a trip, much more interesting from a performing perspective. Etura has always been there, especially in cinema, but also in theatre and dance. Thanks to Joaquín Oristrell’s 2003 film Sin Vergüenza, Marta Etura’s career took a great leap forward and is now defined by an ongoing search for good stories and by an outstanding versatility and discretion. " Motherhood has helped me understand many things about the character: I was experiencing things that Amaia was experiencing at the same time, even silly things like breastfeeding or holding a baby…” A career under the spotlight Her job and my job are very particular because they involve working long hours,” she says. “In The Legacy of the Bones there are similarities between Amaia's life and mine, which is the compatibility of motherhood and work, but that’s something that happens to 90 percent of women. However, what cinema generates, with the crew and all, is very powerful” “Theatre is quite a trip, much more interesting from a performing perspective. Managing all those emotions for so long and so intensely was the greatest difficulty of all, but also the greatest pleasure.” On top of that, she has to deal with horrible cases as part of her daily life. Amaia is deeply wounded as a result of a terrible childhood. “Emotionally speaking, this is a very hard film. However, for Marta Etura it was both a professional and a personal challenge. There, the crew was exposed to extreme weather conditions during the long filming period. The Baztán valley plays a decisive role in the book’s plot and also in the film. Playing such a demanding character for so many hours is hard,” she explains. But I’ve been lucky enough to have had my boyfriend and my little chubby baby with me! Otherwise, I would’ve gone crazy. “I appear in each and every one of the sequences in that sense, the intensity of the film was brutal. A total of 18 weeks accompanied by Chloe, her 18-month-old baby, who makes her eyes light up whenever she talks about her. ![]() The second and third instalments of the trilogy, to be premiered in April 2020, have been film in parallel. And the second is that she is more expressive and accessible than one would expect from a woman who has managed to maintain considerable discretion throughout her twenty years of acting career, even more so in the era of social networks and constant public exposure. The first thing that surprises us is that no one seems to recognize one of the best and most versatile actresses in Spanish cinema. We met Marta for coffee in a bar in the centre of Madrid. She is promoting the second film of The Baztán Trilogy, written by Dolores Redondo and directed by Fernando González Molina. Marta plays the leading character, a Detective Inspector from the Navarra Foral Police who has to solve a series of strange homicides with references to mythology and religion, and which serve as the starting point of this intricate story. These are some of the adjectives that come to mind as one meets Marta Etura (San Sebastián, 1978). ![]() 'The Legacy of the Bones' is darker than the more complex first instalment of the saga, and the leading character -Inspector Amaia Salazar- shares with the woman who plays her much more than a magnetic and expressive face.Īpproachable. The actress is premiering the second part of the film adaptation of 'The Baztán Trilogy', by Dolores Redondo. ![]()
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