{"id":174556,"date":"2023-02-10T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/?p=174556"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:53:27","slug":"interview-boris-izaguirre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/interview-boris-izaguirre\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapas Interview | Boris Izaguirre: \u201cI’ve always needed cameras, lights and action to be able to cook\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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No one can say a bad word about Boris Izaguirre (Caracas, Venezuela, 1965) since he arrived in Spain in 1992. After participating as a scriptwriter in several projects and collaborating in different television programmes, he achieved fame with Cr\u00f3nicas marcianas, when Xavier Sard\u00e0 called him to join the show, where he became a media phenomenon with his stellar and provocative appearances, which drove up the audience ratings. Since then, he has become one of the best-known faces on Spanish television. He can now be followed on Sundays on La 1, in Lazos de sangre, a programme dedicated to well-known personalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 16, you started writing social chronicles in the Caracas newspaper El Nacional. Did you already think at that time that you were going to devote yourself to journalism and literature in the future?<\/strong>
Yes, it was completely clear to me. My father was a film critic for the newspaper El Nacional, so I listened to him write his column every day, and sometimes I even went with him to collect the cheque for his work, which meant that I had already associated from an early age that you could earn money from writing and make a living from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When did you decide to live in Spain?<\/strong>
I was living in Buenos Aires, writing a soap opera called Inolvidable for a legendary film and television production company in the country, when they called me to travel to Spain to look for locations for a project they wanted to do for Galician television, and I stayed here. It was 1992, just the week after Hugo Ch\u00e1vez’s coup d’\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After participating as a scriptwriter in several projects and collaborating in different television programmes, Xavier Sard\u00e0 signed him up for Cr\u00f3nicas marcianas, which made him a media phenomenon. What has Sard\u00e0 represented in your career?<\/strong>
Everything. By the time I met Xavier I had already thrown in the towel on achieving my dreams. I was a completely disoriented person and practically on the verge of giving up, because I thought that I was not going to be able to achieve anything here. Suddenly, Xavier appeared, and it was incredible because I think we liked each other very much from the very first moment. I was already collaborating in the radio programme La ventana, with Gemma Nierga, in which he played Mr. Casamajor, but I, like many other people, didn’t know that Sard\u00e0 and Casamajor were the same person. It was a real surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist, TV presenter, scriptwriter, writer? Would you like to try something else?<\/strong>
No, because I think they are all related to writing. I started in television as a scriptwriter, and I wrote daily series, which is a job that is a bit like a peon’s job but which teaches you the trade perfectly, which is what I have developed later in my other incursions into television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone speaks very highly of you, even though you have a strong character.<\/strong>
Yes, it is true that I sometimes have a very bad temper, especially at home, with Rub\u00e9n, my partner. Sometimes I would like to be more temperate with him because, from time to time, he makes decisions that are not the best for both of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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