Juanjo Artero He turns 58 next week. But in 1981 she was one of the most famous people in Spain because the only television channel that we Spaniards had premiered the series at that time. Blue summer, topical because the People’s Party has used the tune of the mythical production of Antonio Mercero for his electoral campaign of the elections of July 23.
The interpreter has spoken about the controversy generated and says that “a series of all Spaniards and should not be used politically.” The Madrid actor is no longer that blond, blue-eyed young man who cried like everyone else for the death of Chanquete. antonio ferrandis He actually passed away 23 years ago but his character remains for eternity, just like Antonio Miguel Albajara, professor of literature at the University of Berkeley, protagonist of Start overthe first Oscar-winning Spanish production that raised Jose Luis Garcia in 1982.
“It is a series of all Spaniards and it should not be used politically, Antonio Mercero (he died 5 years ago) would not approve it,” repeats Artero in statements to digital closure, where he recalls four decades after the premiere of the series of those children who rode bicycles through the streets of the Malaga town of Nerja and which marked more than a generation due to its endless repetitions in later years.
The Madrid interpreter refers to the matter, much commented after RTVE has demanded that the PP withdraw its campaign of “A Blue Summer”, with the music of the series and using other of its main protagonists Tito, the smallest of the gang, played by the actor Miguel Joven, today also the protagonist of this controversial video of the PP. “The Serie Blue summer It belongs to all Spaniards and should not be used politically by anyone. I am sure that Antonio Mercero would not have liked this”, reiterates the one who played the role of Javi as a child.
Artero remembers those days “tenderly”. “Over the years I do not judge myself and it makes me very funny to see what he was like as an actor and I had a very bad time seeing myself then. I also have many memories and many feelings from a past life,” the actor confesses. “I feel very happy to have participated and to have lived the experience. I am sure that Mercero and the creators came to feel proud of the series, which belonged to everyone without exception,” he explains to digital de Juan Luis Galiacho.
Juanjo Artero He is undoubtedly the actor who has evolved the most professionally after those long-awaited beginnings. In addition to Javi, he is well remembered for roles such as Deputy Inspector Charlie from the commissioner or Captain Ricardo Montero in Boat.
In theater he has had the opportunity to work with actress Lola Herrera, “a wonderful being, not only as an actress”, and has worked with filmmakers such as Antonio Del Real and Enrique Urbizu. She now she is with the theatrical version of the movie Between glasses, and he also continues with his monologue El milagro de la tierra, which will premiere on the last Tuesday of September in Madrid.
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