"Humor is a defense mechanism, a shield for Voltage Abastos Your space magic in "The Anthill" minute of gold has been on television. Will Smith, Martin Sheen and Kylie Minogue have surrendered to their tricks ... His monologues sweep among young people, but the Galician A Coruña believes that its success is the result of a simple principle: do what one likes
By Sandra fascines
Luis Piedrahita (A Coruña, 1977) is on a roll. The hit TV magic Speaking on the agenda of Pablo Motos The nest must be added that of his show in monologue weekend at a theater in Madrid. What's more, this Galician 'La Coru of life' has turned all his ingenuity in several books, whose title is best to remember (Why build the largest swings over a puddle?, Etc.) and premiered at the film directing Fermat's Room. A Piedrahita likes to experiment and channel this innate capacity to have things, be it through whatever means, magic, film, theater, television, books, always under Keepers eyes of a child of great bangs, which opens to the world through enormous horn-rimmed glasses with a mission to disarm the adult in us all, with the surreal hyper living in everyday life. This shows before starting their duties the king of the little things.
- Who is when he removes his glasses?
"Ugh, as I am absolutely blind. The glasses are a must to see but I would put ever. I wore glasses before going on TV and were equal to these, so if you mean if you are a disguise, because no. Although the character that appears in the theater, the stage version is thought, worked and said with great energy.
"But without the glasses would not recognize ...
"Oh, of course not. In fact, when I want to go undercover as Superman, but in reverse. Superman, no one ever believed it, put on the glasses and it was another [laughs]. But if you take them off is much harder to be recognized. I have a theory that when someone wants to dress is much more effective things to be removed. If you shave your eyebrows or hair Rapas or you take off your teeth do not recognize you.
"Very interesting, but often the picture! Toothless and bald ... Now it gets funny, I imagine happens between friends joking. Have you ever noticed that it went from funny?
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go funny.
"Well, someone has been injured or who have qualified for their continuous heavy jokes.
"No, not my style. I believe, as Woody Allen said that in comedy the worst thing you can do is be funny, if you notice your intention and you do not succeed failure is obvious, but if there is an intention, as you expect it would count, count by count, because if it does not work nothing happens and if it works it's fantastic. I feel that I have not had, because I try not to be heavy. I like to always have a polite reply, not so funny and unexpected. Of course, the problem is when you do play on a track that does not appeal. For example if you make a joke about whether the King of small things has everything small. That cost me more.
"The Galician have a relatively distinct humor. Did you perceive well?
"Yes, yes. And he has an explanation. Humor is a defense mechanism people use when there is a very tense situation. To break as one tells a joke ... It is a kind of shield. And different regions have advocated different things. For example, the climate in Galicia forces you to be more enclosed, is everything darker, more inward, not allow you to improvise, that constitutes a way of thinking and laughing. An attitude. In Andalusia, the opposite is true, is the sun, is leaving the party to see there, the humor Andalusian so, improvised out. So it is so different and so are so great, but are different, Julio Camba and Tone.
- And you identify with the humor gallego to speak without speaking?
"Yes, the humor that I do is very Galician. Eye, but nobody believes that's good, huh? One is not better for doing that. Galician humor is better than another: there are idiots in any part of Spain.
-In "The ant" all have a frenetic pace, as if they had taken a tripod.
-opted by Pablo Motos an interesting idea, providing content as if you do not like what you see does not matter, because soon change. And that makes me say how well I'm going! and suddenly you're in the next block to go back to having fun. A strategy that works, you just have to see the numbers.
- And people attack you slow?
"No, no. In fact I am very slow, I have to make a big effort to have a place in that program. The magic I make very fast, because it also requires your time, moments of attention, enjoy the excitement, the mystery, and I have to summarize a lot. I always made the joke to Pablo Motos: The nest is a place where whatever happens happens very quickly.
- And a guest which impacts? Much was said about Will Smith.
"Yes. That day, the magic was the golden minute of every television in Spain. Although I was impressed, it somehow so you can expect. But I was also surprised Jackie Chan, elegant, Peter Coyote, superreflexive, Kylie Minogue, for their vital energy, or Joaquin Cortes and Martin Sheen, and that is when magic you get a connection brutal.
-Explain.
"When you're baring magic somehow to the person, you're doing give in some way, you put in front of the eyes something inexplicable, something that does not understand and you have to recognize that not understood. And the reaction of a person before I say much of it inexplicable. One may become angry, indignant, rejoice. And they saw a twinkle in his eye, become children, and a guy like Martin Sheen is illusion is wonderful!
- Would you comfort?
"Not so much that as I say, this guy has taken the life where I had to go.
- What has led you where I wanted? He always had clear his artistic vocation.
"Yes, at 14. I met with my school friends, Román García and Kiko Pastur, two of the best magicians in the world. The three were from the same school, the Jesuits, and did magic on the playground. Then there was no Internet, but we were looking for information. Maybe one came to Madrid and saw a magician who pulled an ostrich of an orange, and then thought how to go about building this trick, with a complete failure ... But the magic fueled our friendship, and without that friendship would not have made magic.
- What memories do you have then?
"Well, I remember school as a difficult stage of life [laughs]. I had that thought to be Eperara to pass this time to do what I want.
- And in the race?
"In the race [Audiovisual studied in Pamplona] and is different. I was not a brilliant student, but only suspended once. However, in the four subjects took dash honors, because that was what I liked.
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you always associated with Juan Tamariz.
-Juan Tamariz is the reason why all of a generation magicians do magic. Is regarded worldwide as the best magician of letters. Is a star.
-Aesthetics wizard's hat, the girl and the rabbit always seemed to me a little freaky. And scary.
"Today's magic scene is very renewed, there is nothing of that. If you see the Pen & Teller show in Las Vegas or David Copperfield has nothing to do with it. I prefer close-up magic, which is very surprising, is there at hand: take it, touch it, look ... But that can only be done with twenty people. If you want to spend the card professionally will starve.
-Write, has directed the film "Fermat's Room," makes monologues ... Are all equally interested?
-is that basically all the same. To me what interests me is to have things be through means that are
Source: La Voz de Galicia
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