The actor Javier Gutiérrez has reacted with two strong words to the message that director Pedro Almodóvar has sent to Juan García-Gallardo, vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León (Vox), who called the filmmakers “gentlemen.”
“PEDRO ALMODOVAR”, Gutiérrez wrote in capital letters at the same moment that the director from La Mancha made his applauded reply to the leader of Vox, who was in the same auditorium.
“Not many hours ago, a politician who is present in this room spoke of us as the gentlemen who collect the subsidies,” Almodóvar began by saying, defining himself as “one of these gentlemen who collect subsidies to make very bad films that interest no one.
“I’m going to tell this man the obvious: The money that we filmmakers receive as an advance we more than return to the State through Social Security taxes,” he highlighted.
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, assured this Saturday that in the film sector “there are no gentlemen” but rather cultural workers who are “a source of pride” for Spain.
In statements to the media after meeting with a representation of cultural professionals from Castilla y León, Urtasun insisted that the Goya gala “is very important.”