Interview with Yon González
Posted July 15, 2017
A lovely interview with Yon González in La Voz de Galicia. Read it in Spanish here.
A lovely interview with Yon González in La Voz de Galicia. Read it in Spanish here.
"My parents gave me this body, this voice and this face"
It is not the first time that Yon González goes to buy clothes and has to come back with out it because he was found in the shop. "They ask for autographs, but my handwriting is horrible!" He says. The guy from "Las Chicas del Cable" has already turned 30 and has long passed being the teenage icon.
Yon arrives late and has a very valid point. And he not only knows it, but even exploits it. "If I had been ugly, I'll tell you, you and I wouldn't be talking now," he suddenly lets go. But the fact is that, above all else, this young Basque man is full of charisma. "I, who come from a small town and have never been a fan of anyone ...", he says as if he still does not understand how he has become one of the most wanted and sought-after Spanish actors on TV. The real culprit is his brother, Aitor Luna, whom he adores.
"I did not think you were someone who would be late.
- Ha ha. I wasn't late ... Was I late? Well, a little bit, a little bit.
"The "cable girls" are everywhere, but the boys don't show up so much on the posters. What are you going to do with them?
- Well there will be many feelings and and emotions... I think for the good although many times it will be for the worse.
"Then you're going to provoke them."
- Yes, especially one. I will affect the other one but not in a negative way, but hey, there is the yin and there is the yang.
"And that one could not be other than Blanca Suarez."
"Of course, why not?!
-What happens there that you always end up together? Are you predestined?
- Hey, hey ... On a personal level? I don't know, I hope to be able to make many more films with her, really, because she is a great companion, a great person and she's wonderful. I love her a lot.
-What about that reunion of you two with Martiño Rivas like in "El Internado"?
- Very beautiful, because with her I was reunited in Perdiendo El Norte, and there is a feeling of coming home with a great opportunity to grow, although we continue doing it day after day because this is the way it is. But it's true that in the beginning, it was a very intense series, we were protagonists and we learned both from each other as actors and as people, from the exhaustion of working all day long ... We were a great family, it is a very beautiful reunion, a pleasure, super comfortable.
"We heard about your signing on" Las Chicas del Cable " through your brother, and then he replaced you in" La Catedral del Mar" when you turned down the role. The two of you must be happy, but your mother must be even more happy because everything stayed within the family.
-Hahaha. Yes, totally. This is a total pleasure, because my brother is a fantastic actor, with such power that he taught me as a child. I remember that I was going to study to be car mechanic or Physical Education teacher, and I accompanied him many times to his theater cafés throughout the Basque Country, and I had to set up the stage and all the chairs. I would throw the cables and then he did his work, his 50 minute functions. They did five different functions making you say "How amazing!" I was impressed. It was my brother who did this job from the stage and all, it was my brother who made me see this life, so it should be the other way around. That he would reject the series and I would take it.
"Because you started more by chance, did you not?"
-Yes, he was persistent, he was constant, he studied his five years in San Sebastian, they closed the school, he went to Bilbao, started from scratch, he did that at the same time he did theater cafe ... He has been constant, that's why I tell you that it really should have been the other way around. Also the character that he is playing in that series ... the profile and everything is better for my brother! And it's not for nothing that things are as they are. But as at this moment on a greater scale, it may seem that I am moving more ... In the end it all boils down to selling, but if you remove that, realistically, it's my brother more than me.
"Is it true that you get on so well that you live only five minutes apart?"
-Yes its true. Actually less I believe... in three minutes at most I'm at his door.
"Come on, rivalry or not. You do what you like.
"Nooo, but I do not lie either.
"I think you do well in the world of social media.
-Yes, because in the end I like my work, but I show myself on a personal level in the social networks ... I know that seems like business, but its like you stop being yourself with the phone, I don't know ... It bothers me a little. In the end I understand that everything comes down to selling, but you give a job to a person because he has more twitterers or more followers on Instagram and you know that the one who gives a shit is this other person, but then you give the role to the first person because he moves the masses ... It is the way of the world, we can't fight against it, we have to go with it. I started with Instagram lately, trying to get my batteries back a bit, but with effort. It's silly, it's just a photo, no more, but it's just that I never take photos, never ...
"Will you be fed up with it?"
"I' just say," What am I going to post If I have nothing to post?! " Then I post something that happens to me with some friends or some picture that I have made for some session, but it takes effort, it takes effort. And the private life of each is the private life of each ... And better so, so that they treat you for your quality. But hey, there has to be balance.
"It's been a few years since they've let you get dressed. I think you've had to leave the store without ever buying anything during your time in "El Internado".
"Yes, that was a brutal time." I come from a small town and I've never been a fan of anyone ... I admire people for what they do, because there are real artists all over the world, but I've never been a fan of anybody. So suddenly all this madness, and they ask you for an autograph ... when my handwriting is horrible!
-You turned 30 and they give you adult roles, when many at your age are still teenagers. Do you see that as maturity?
"Yes, I know, in the end it's mostly luck. That my parents gave me this body, this voice, this face, heh, heh. And then I, with the ability to manage to get something out in each script. But the other part from parents is also very influential, which I have nothing to do with, you know? LOL. Because if I had been ugly I'll tell you now that you and I would not be talking.
-You never know...
"Yes, but surely in another context [laughs].
"You were talking before you wanted to study to be a mechanic or Physical Education teacher. Did you ever regret having stopped studying?
-No, not at all.
"Did village life suffocate you?
"Yes, because that was the whole of life. Thanks to my brother I discovered the city, Bilbao, and it was also thanks to my mother, who told me: "Go model". And I said: "Model?" Really everything happened because of that, and suddenly you look a little further and you start to be open to what life brings you. Sometimes we find one thing, but life has something else in store. You have to keep your eyes open ... and be open to it.
It is not the first time that Yon González goes to buy clothes and has to come back with out it because he was found in the shop. "They ask for autographs, but my handwriting is horrible!" He says. The guy from "Las Chicas del Cable" has already turned 30 and has long passed being the teenage icon.
Yon arrives late and has a very valid point. And he not only knows it, but even exploits it. "If I had been ugly, I'll tell you, you and I wouldn't be talking now," he suddenly lets go. But the fact is that, above all else, this young Basque man is full of charisma. "I, who come from a small town and have never been a fan of anyone ...", he says as if he still does not understand how he has become one of the most wanted and sought-after Spanish actors on TV. The real culprit is his brother, Aitor Luna, whom he adores.
"I did not think you were someone who would be late.
- Ha ha. I wasn't late ... Was I late? Well, a little bit, a little bit.
"The "cable girls" are everywhere, but the boys don't show up so much on the posters. What are you going to do with them?
- Well there will be many feelings and and emotions... I think for the good although many times it will be for the worse.
"Then you're going to provoke them."
- Yes, especially one. I will affect the other one but not in a negative way, but hey, there is the yin and there is the yang.
"And that one could not be other than Blanca Suarez."
"Of course, why not?!
-What happens there that you always end up together? Are you predestined?
- Hey, hey ... On a personal level? I don't know, I hope to be able to make many more films with her, really, because she is a great companion, a great person and she's wonderful. I love her a lot.
-What about that reunion of you two with Martiño Rivas like in "El Internado"?
- Very beautiful, because with her I was reunited in Perdiendo El Norte, and there is a feeling of coming home with a great opportunity to grow, although we continue doing it day after day because this is the way it is. But it's true that in the beginning, it was a very intense series, we were protagonists and we learned both from each other as actors and as people, from the exhaustion of working all day long ... We were a great family, it is a very beautiful reunion, a pleasure, super comfortable.
"We heard about your signing on" Las Chicas del Cable " through your brother, and then he replaced you in" La Catedral del Mar" when you turned down the role. The two of you must be happy, but your mother must be even more happy because everything stayed within the family.
-Hahaha. Yes, totally. This is a total pleasure, because my brother is a fantastic actor, with such power that he taught me as a child. I remember that I was going to study to be car mechanic or Physical Education teacher, and I accompanied him many times to his theater cafés throughout the Basque Country, and I had to set up the stage and all the chairs. I would throw the cables and then he did his work, his 50 minute functions. They did five different functions making you say "How amazing!" I was impressed. It was my brother who did this job from the stage and all, it was my brother who made me see this life, so it should be the other way around. That he would reject the series and I would take it.
"Because you started more by chance, did you not?"
-Yes, he was persistent, he was constant, he studied his five years in San Sebastian, they closed the school, he went to Bilbao, started from scratch, he did that at the same time he did theater cafe ... He has been constant, that's why I tell you that it really should have been the other way around. Also the character that he is playing in that series ... the profile and everything is better for my brother! And it's not for nothing that things are as they are. But as at this moment on a greater scale, it may seem that I am moving more ... In the end it all boils down to selling, but if you remove that, realistically, it's my brother more than me.
"Is it true that you get on so well that you live only five minutes apart?"
-Yes its true. Actually less I believe... in three minutes at most I'm at his door.
"Come on, rivalry or not. You do what you like.
"Nooo, but I do not lie either.
"I think you do well in the world of social media.
-Yes, because in the end I like my work, but I show myself on a personal level in the social networks ... I know that seems like business, but its like you stop being yourself with the phone, I don't know ... It bothers me a little. In the end I understand that everything comes down to selling, but you give a job to a person because he has more twitterers or more followers on Instagram and you know that the one who gives a shit is this other person, but then you give the role to the first person because he moves the masses ... It is the way of the world, we can't fight against it, we have to go with it. I started with Instagram lately, trying to get my batteries back a bit, but with effort. It's silly, it's just a photo, no more, but it's just that I never take photos, never ...
"Will you be fed up with it?"
"I' just say," What am I going to post If I have nothing to post?! " Then I post something that happens to me with some friends or some picture that I have made for some session, but it takes effort, it takes effort. And the private life of each is the private life of each ... And better so, so that they treat you for your quality. But hey, there has to be balance.
"It's been a few years since they've let you get dressed. I think you've had to leave the store without ever buying anything during your time in "El Internado".
"Yes, that was a brutal time." I come from a small town and I've never been a fan of anyone ... I admire people for what they do, because there are real artists all over the world, but I've never been a fan of anybody. So suddenly all this madness, and they ask you for an autograph ... when my handwriting is horrible!
-You turned 30 and they give you adult roles, when many at your age are still teenagers. Do you see that as maturity?
"Yes, I know, in the end it's mostly luck. That my parents gave me this body, this voice, this face, heh, heh. And then I, with the ability to manage to get something out in each script. But the other part from parents is also very influential, which I have nothing to do with, you know? LOL. Because if I had been ugly I'll tell you now that you and I would not be talking.
-You never know...
"Yes, but surely in another context [laughs].
"You were talking before you wanted to study to be a mechanic or Physical Education teacher. Did you ever regret having stopped studying?
-No, not at all.
"Did village life suffocate you?
"Yes, because that was the whole of life. Thanks to my brother I discovered the city, Bilbao, and it was also thanks to my mother, who told me: "Go model". And I said: "Model?" Really everything happened because of that, and suddenly you look a little further and you start to be open to what life brings you. Sometimes we find one thing, but life has something else in store. You have to keep your eyes open ... and be open to it.
