Alaska didn’t want to make a typical chronological documentary because “I already have a blood ties“. His life was also shown years ago in a reality show (Alaska y Mariothe best that has been done in Spain about a celebrity). In addition, he has starred in countless interviews and covers (such as Interview). But he has decided to open the channel on Movistar Plus+ and “tell everything” because they offered him to do so on a triptych that addresses the three things that matter in life: health, money and love. The result is three episodes of Alaska Revealed that Movistar Plus+ premieres this Sunday, December 15.
When you say that in this documentary you are going to tell everything, what do you mean? Because you are already well known, you have starred in countless interviews, you have had a reality show…
It is a deeper, more personal ‘everything’. I think I have everything counted, but everything in one place. Seeing it all together is different. And then there is an important thing, who knows everything? Maybe the hyperfan who reads all your interviews knows it, but the rest of the people, who have a normal life and are not worried about knowing everything you say at all times, do not have that vision. For me, what gives it intimacy is the way of telling it, not the fact of telling it or exposing yourself as in a reality show or an interview in Tombola. This way of telling it is more intimate and direct, here you have no escape.
Has this reality show helped you heal wounds on a personal level?
No. It has helped me realize that I have them closed, which is very good. It’s like meeting an old boyfriend and saying: ‘I’m not into anything anymore, great.’ But until that moment comes, you don’t know. Well, it’s the same with this: it’s seeing that what I’ve buried is in its place and doesn’t cause me anything.
You have said that you have seen yourself fragile but more powerful than you thought. Has it been an exercise in self-awareness?
Yes, because luckily you are not doing those mental exercises in your life all the time. It is true that it is an exercise in self-awareness because they ask you all the time how you felt, how you feel, how you were and how you are… And you have to put it all together. But I think that in its fair measure, this is a very good thing to do. Now I close again and move on.
Why have you decided now and not before to make a docuseries about your life?
For several things. Why did I do Interview When did I do it? Because it was time. It was phenomenal, there was the reality show, it didn’t have an album… I don’t like to mix things, because it seems that one thing promotes another. Now I’m fine, inside and out. I have health, money and love. Tomorrow we don’t know what it will be like. And, on the other hand, making the typical documentary would have been more of the same. I already have a blood tiesI already have a reality show… What else do you want to tell from that point of view? There is nothing more to tell. There is a newspaper library that anyone can consult. But the fact of how this project was proposed, which is not a chronology of successes and failures, but something from another point of view, is what made me say yes. And then, work with a team [Shine Iberia] of my total confidence.
In which program have you felt most naked? Because in reality you opened the doors of your house, which is your privacy.
That doesn’t seem intimate at all to me! I always say that an Instagram is more intimate than a reality show. And we all have the same level of exposure. I didn’t feel at all self-conscious about the reality moment. And it was a real reality show, the kind you recorded 12 hours a day. Everything was recorded without hiding anything, everyone participated because they wanted to and it was not a scripted thing. It wasn’t like, ‘Now, let’s talk about love.’ It wasn’t that. But I didn’t feel invaded at all. It served me one purpose: that I didn’t care if you saw me without makeup, which is something I had been terrible at until then.
Do you think now Are there many scripted reality shows?
I already noticed it in the fifth season of Alaska y Mario, because there were editors who, the only thing they have to do is sit down and write down what happens, who told us: ‘Well, you could…’. No, you couldn’t. This is not a program. I suppose that, as a person who consumes them and has experienced them, I smell them from a distance. You also realize one thing: many reality shows are recorded for two hours, as if it were one episode, and it is not like that. You have to record all day and you have to see what comes out.
And do you think that today’s reality shows are made with the intention of promoting a constructed image of the person?
I imagine that each thing is different. We were lucky to be very pioneers and to do it on a network like MTV. It’s like making this documentary on Movistar Plus+. There are things that, being in the place they are, give absolute freedom because you are not subject to hearings or subsequent debate, which must be horrible. There was a freedom… Could Alaska and Mario be made today?
Could it be?
In the fifth season we had everything pixelated. It was boring to watch. All the time the others drinking pixelated beer, the pixelated tobacco… I think everything belongs to its moment.
Presentation of ‘Alaska Revelada’ at Espacio Movistar. Photo: Juanlu Real – Movistar Plus+
You are a transversal and intergenerational character. What image do you think young people have of you?
I don’t know, I don’t have the slightest idea. I have a certain perception about reality, which is perhaps a certain part of what the youngest people have about me, although they are no longer the youngest, but they were at the time. Then, perhaps there is a blurrier vision of what the past is. I don’t know, I can’t answer this.
You collaborate in ‘TardeAR’ as a talk show host. Do you feel self-conscious about talking about current affairs?
I don’t feel self-conscious, but I am cautious. Suddenly everything jumps in a direction that is inexplicable, and that you don’t expect because you are not used to things jumping. I have done Pepi, Luci, Bomwith a golden shower at 15 years old… And I’m not used to everything being a possibility of scandal. I, who am a cautious person, have become more cautious when it comes to speaking.
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