Marisa Paredes’ daughter, María Isasi, bursts into tears at her mother’s funeral home: “Yours will always be”

If the death of Marisa Paredes this Tuesday at the age of 71 due to heart failure has left the world of Spanish cinema in shock, those who are truly devastated after her departure are her professional colleagues, close friends and especially her family, her partner sentimental, Chema Prado, and his only daughter, María Isasi.

The sudden death of the actress came after she even went to the theater this Sunday to see her daughter on stage. This is how Prado explained it upon his arrival at the funeral home, devastated: “He was seeing his daughter on Sunday at the theater, she was not feeling bad (…) I would like us to remember her as an extraordinary person and a magnificent actress.“.

Shortly after, María Isasi traveled to the Tres Cantos funeral home, who could not contain her emotion and tears over the loss of her mother and the immense support she is receiving after her departure: “It’s a pretty hard day. Thank you all for being here. The immeasurable amount of messages I have had, full of love. As a friend says, she belongs to everyone, so she is yours and will always be yours.. And thank you, thank you for accompanying me, for accompanying the family at this moment.”

This Tuesday’s wake will be joined by the burning chapel that will be installed this Wednesday at the Spanish Theater in Madrid: “Tomorrow she will be where she needs to be, in its Spanish Theater, in its Plaza Santa Ana, which is where it was born and where I would have always wanted to be, from 10 to 12, and there we will say goodbye to her with all our love“he explained.

Destroyed, the actress has acknowledged that she would like her mother to be remembered “as she was: wonderful, brave, a fighter, she was a goddess.” “And he left us a great cinematographic, political, social legacy, of fighting for rights, of freedom of the press, of thought, of feminism, of so many things…”he added with a broken voice.

Regarding the visit he received last weekend from his mother at the theater, he said: “He was watching me, yes, precisely on that stage, at the Spanish Theater, our last performance of Bohemian lights“very excited and very happy.”.

The death of Marisa Paredes

The woman who gave life to Becky del Páramo, Amanda Gris and other unforgettable characters in between darkness, Far Heels y The flower of my secret He leaves an unmatched legacy in cinema and a vital testimony marked by independence, commitment and elegance. Spanish cinema, which in 2018 awarded her the Goya of Honor in recognition of her entire career, loses not only an extraordinary performer, but also a fascinating figure, often shrouded in a halo of mystery.

In the 70s, he maintained a relationship with the director Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, a key figure of Spanish cinema. From that union their only daughter was born. The relationship lasted just seven years, but Marisa always spoke of that stage with affection and respect. Isasi-Isasmendi was, without a doubt, an important figure in her life, although marriage was never in the actress’s plans.

Since 1983, he shared his life with Chema Prado, former director of the National Film Archive, with whom he built a solid and complicit relationship. They both lived together in the emblematic Torres Blancas building, on Avenida de América in Madrid, and always stayed away from media noise. Prado, in one of the few interviews in which he spoke about his relationship, recalled how he met Marisa thanks to Pedro Almodóvar: “He had just filmed between darkness and I asked him to introduce her to me. It was in Venice.” Since then, Marisa and Chema became inseparable companions. Death, this gray Tuesday, separates them.