Pasapalabra has launched the month of May with a new consignment of celebrities willing to waste knowledge, reflexes and good humor to try to help the contestants, adding seconds to the final test of El Rosco. This Monday, Roberto Leal welcomed Elia Galera, Mariola Fuentes, Salva Reina and Albert Espinosa. Let’s get to know this latest guest a little better.
Albert Espinosa is many things: film and television director and scriptwriter, playwright, theater actor and best-selling writer in bookstores. But above all he is a survivor. As a child he was given a 3% chance of moving on; he spent half of his childhood between hospitals and lost a leg, a lung and part of his liver, overcoming three cancers.
Later, as he assured in this interview with EL MUNDO, his doctor told him that he would die at 50 due to the type of cancer he had (osteosarcoma), but he is already at 52. “I think I have rope for a while,” he says. .
Although the man from Barcelona spent a decade fighting in hospitals, from the age of 14 to 24, Albert Espinosa managed to study Industrial Engineering at the same time that he began to write and participate in student theater groups.
Espinosa never worked as an engineer because he began his career as a screenwriter at the Gestmusic production company, where he developed different projects, while at the same time squeezing his talent as a playwright.
In 2003, he made Fourth Floor, a film by Antonio Mercero based on his tragicomic experiences as a teenager. Years later, in 2010, he adapted the film for the Red Bracelets series, which achieved international success and made Steven Spielberg himself cry, to the point that the American director took over the rights to the series to adapt his own version.
On television, he has been a scriptwriter for emblematic programs such as El Bus, Buenafuente or, more recently, Los espabilados, where he is also a director. He has also made some forays into the small screen as an actor: Christmas Eve, Suite de nit, Abuela de verano or La Trinca: non-authorized biography.
The expectation right now is in the program ‘El camino a casa’, which premieres on May 4 on laSexta and in which six celebrities -Jesulín de Ubrique, Luis Tosar, Rosa López, Fernando Tejero, Ana Peleteiro and Pocholo, they delve into their childhoods in the company of Espinosa.
From his film career, it is also worth noting the first film he directed, Don’t ask me to kiss you, because I’ll kiss you, as well as Heroes and Live is Life. The great adventure.
If his record as a screenwriter and as a playwright surprises, that of a writer directly overwhelms. And it is that Albert Espinosa has 14 published books of which he has sold more than a million copies: The yellow world (2008); Everything that you and I could have been if we weren’t you and me (2010); If you tell me come, I’ll leave everything but tell me come (2011); Compasses that search for lost smiles (2013); The blue world. Love Your Chaos (2015); The secrets they never told you (2016); What I’ll Say When I See You Again (2017); Finals that deserve a story (2018); The best thing about going is coming back (2019); If they taught us to lose, we would always win (2020); I was prepared for everything except you; How good you do me when you do me good (2023).
Precisely, during the presentation of his latest book, the author spoke to EL MUNDO about his multifaceted career: “I studied industrial engineering, so when I dedicated myself to the cinema, people thought I was an industrial engineer. When I did theater, people said it was film, and when I did television, it was theater. And when I made books, they said it was media. I have always tried to make my life stages. For 25 years I did theater and today I am going for my 14th book and I am only going to write 17. I like to change. I have a lot of people who follow me and the first to be surprised is me, but I assume that one day I may not like what I do.”
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