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Susi Sánchez, winner of the Goya: “I like that the viewer has a ‘tight ass'”

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Susi Sánchez (Valencia, 1955) has collected the Goya Award for best supporting actress for her role in Five Little Wolves, moment that she has taken advantage of to vindicate the role of women and ask men to “stand shoulder to shoulder” because “it is important to reach an agreement and if society is a disaster it is in our power to fix it.”

In this category, which was announced by actresses Petra Martínez and Belén Cuesta, Susi Sánchez competed with: Marie Colomb, for As bestas; Carmen Machi, for Piglet; Penélope Cruz, for On the Margins; Ángela Cervantes, for La Maternal.

When accepting the award, the interpreter wanted to “thank her academic colleagues for this second recognition. Women’s participation is growing but we still have a long way to go and we cannot do it alonewe are half and we need the other half, which is you,” he commented.

Feminist, brave, elegant

Susi Sanchez She is very tall, slender, blonde, with a deep voice and has had character for a long time. Since before any of that was fashionable or normal in Spain. She is a feminist, brave, elegant like few others and captivatingly honest and fighter.

She balances, like a contemporary magician, to steal bits of the future from the present and be able to escape on tiptoe to the country house where she studies her characters, rests and jump from noise to silence that, sometimes, you need so much.

In the theater, his home, has enjoyed directors such as Lupa, Veronese, José Luis Gómez, Lluís Pascual and Pandur, among others. He works more and more in the cinema: He has shown us his vulnerability, his loneliness, his passion, his distinction and his apparent coldness, his love and his contradictions in characters meticulously created for films like Sunday’s illness of Ramon Salazarfor which he wins her first Goya for best female lead performance in 2018.

Susi Sánchez in a still from ‘Cinco Lobitos’ with Laia Acosta and Ramón Barea.

Nicolás Jorge de Assas

He has participated in four of the latest productions of Almodovar, and in recent years he has filmed with Avelina Prat, Secun de la Rosa and Oscar Aibar, among many other filmmakers. He has received the Best Spanish Actress Film Award of 2022nothing more and nothing less.

And now, Susi is a very happy wolf to be living everything that is happening to her, thanks to her fierce and very personal performance in the debut film of Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, five little wolves. A cascade of awards seems to be falling to his firmament, thanks to this film, for which he has been nominated for the Goya Best Supporting Actress 2023.

Do you have the speech prepared to receive the Goya Award, or someone special to dedicate it to?

I haven’t thought about it yet, I haven’t had time. On February 11th the Goya gala is celebrated and on the 13th I fly to Lima to shoot a film there for a month, so what I need is to prepare the film in advance, letting things rest, doing work… like of ant And that’s where I am.

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