With a hat and seven-striped espadrilles. This is how he collected the Ondas en Peyu award, which he had promised to the audience ofthe bunker that this would be his outfit when he went on stage at the Gran Teatre del Liceu to receive the award together with Jair Domínguez and Neus Rossell. “I dressed like this because I promised the listeners and to claim that there are many people who would like the culture of our country, Catalonia, to be reduced to this, that they let us go with beretina and seven stripes, dance some sardana and eat some carquinyoli”, he said in the speech of thanks for the award for the best program of proximity. Peyu has also claimed to be able to continue doing his work in his language, Catalan.
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Taking advantage of the moment, the comedian also reproached the Spanish cultural sector for the lack of support given to Catalonia. “You have been missed many times. Sometimes it feels like it is difficult to position yourself for fear of losing four votes or selling a few fewer tickets for your concerts. You have a market of 40 million Spanish people, we have been living in “a market of two or three million Catalan speakers, and you can live perfectly. I mean if the fear is to lose the four idiots who shout”Long live Franco» in Ferraz, we should lose our fear”, he argued. Peyu’s speech was received with explosive applause from the public.
For his part, Marc Giró, who picked up Ondas in the best local television program for Late xou, has claimed television made in Catalan from RTVE Catalunya. The first season of late show de Giró was broadcast in Catalan in disconnection for Catalonia but is currently broadcast in Spanish for the whole of Spain. The communicator has asked for more television products to be made in Catalan from the production center in Sant Cugat.
Among the Catalan award winners was also Úrsula Corberó, who won the award for best female performance for her role in The body on fire, which portrays the crime of the Urban Guard. In her speech of thanks, the actress addressed her parents in Catalan: “Mama, papa, thank you very much for taking me seriously from a young age. Thank you for helping me grow up surrounded by love and sensitivity, despite the circumstances of life”. Corberó also had words for his partner, Argentine actor Chino Darín, whom he says has taught him to express his needs and set limits. Finally, he addressed the politicians present at the ceremony, among whom was the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the new Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun. “To the people who make the decisions, please talk and understand each other. It is possible to do it without going through a confrontation. Please, no more wars. Let’s love and respect each other,” he said. Corberó ended her speech with a touch of humor saying that this award, the first of her career, was dedicated to herself for “being so hard-working and so brave”, as she was on the verge of not accepting the role of Rosa Peral.
The Ondas awards, presented by journalist Aimar Bretos and comedian Nerea Pérez de las Heras, and which took place at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, celebrated 70 years of history this year. During the gala, the people responsible for the documentary also collected an award Unzué Juancar’s last teamabout Juan Carlos Unzué’s fight against ALS.
2023-11-22 20:53:30
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