Jordi Évole: "If you leave the lane, you become a plague"

Jordi Évole: "If you leave the lane, you become a plague"


"Alucinado" is Jordi Évole with a possible regulation of freedom of expression and advocates for an explicit defense of the rights that have been lost over the years because, according to Efe, today "we put our hands to the head" with "perfectly tolerated" opinions and expressions in the 80s.

"The politically correct thing has impregnated absolutely everything and right now when someone gets out of the lane it becomes a plague," says the Catalan journalist, who returns to laSexta this Sunday with a new season of "Saved."

The program celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and its presenter believes that staging such as the one made in 2008 with "two gay Falangists dancing a 'fachacha'" in the esplanade of the Valley of the Fallen, would cause today the complaint of some collective " that does not tolerate these things. "

"They organize themselves to make your life bitter because there are always judges who have a certain sympathy for this type of ideas and who admit to processing these complaints that, from the beginning, take up a lot of time," he laughs.

For Évole (Cornellá de Llobregat, 1974), with the current scale of "purists who have the jar of essences" to tell you what is right and wrong, "a genius like Pedro Almodóvar could not have triumphed" because his first films "Surely they would not pass the filter that happened in the eighties."

Although the public has supported him massively, the journalist continues to be "very nervous" before the beginning of a new season because television "is getting more difficult" and its formula is "inaccurate".

This season starts with an issue that "has nothing to do with today": being locked in a rural house for a weekend with a group of young people with disabilities, specifically, with the protagonists of "Champions", the latest film from Javier Fesser and Spanish candidate for the Oscars, with whom they have talked, cooked, laughed and cried.

"They are people without filters, who are not aware of the politically correct and that for any conversation is wonderful," Évole praises, admitting that he had never known how to approach the issue and it was when he saw the film when he thought about doing it through these kids

A seasonal opening, a priori, less commercial than what can be expected in the current television scene, but is that, according to Évole, journalists "let us mark the agenda quite a bit" and sometimes the same issues are discussed and little attention to others.

"It seems to me that we have fallen into the error of becoming spokespersons for political ideas," laments the journalist, who believes that the proliferation of a genre "as our own" as the gathering, devalues ​​it by converting it "simply into a shouting match and in a contribution to the tension ".

"The fact that we are sometimes so focused on the show, to sacralize the controversy, I do not know if it does us a favor to us as a collective, even if we do a favor to the society that we have lived," reflects Évole.

Despite the social focus of many of the deliveries of "Saved", the program does not forget the policy and its appointment next weekend, coinciding with the anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia, makes a reconstruction "almost minute by minute "of what happened in the previous hours.

"A lot of things happened that I think are not known and where most politicians, both on one side and another, are quite portrayed before the inability to reach an agreement in such an extreme situation," he explains.

He is satisfied with the "plural and transversal" vision that they will offer with the testimonies of, among others, the former minister Rafael Catalá, the leader of the PSC, Miquel Iceta; the expresident Artur Mas or the fugitives Toni Comín and Anna Gabriel.

"We will see much of the miseries of politics and how sometimes, only for political reasons, you forget your vocation to serve the citizen," he remarks.

Who for now can not see the audience of "Saved" is Pope Francis: "Right now for me is the most desired interview," admits Évole, who concludes: "we shoot everywhere to see what falls."

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