Marc Giró (Barcelona, 48 years old) believes that his thing about always wearing a suit is cultural appropriation. “I’m kind of a transvestite. They didn’t appeal to me because of the social class or the type of work I did when I first started wearing them, but here I am, in this uniform and very happy,” he says, boasting about how functional the inside pockets of the It’s the Acne Studios jacket. What did you see during the interview? “You see, it’s years old and they’ve remodeled it several times, but it’s still like new. Before it was invented, I was already a master at upcycling [reciclaje]’ he says happily.
A few months ago he replied with “Who is Marc Giró?” It was an SEO target for non-Catalans when it caught the eye in the gatherings following the Telecinco documentary series on Rocío Carrasco’s life. In 2023, it has become the conductor who has most modernized and dynamized the most traditional artifacts of the Catalan-language media. After revealing the classy Catalan’s substrate in two essays (Pijos and Encara més pijos, both appeared in Univers), he directs and hosts Vostè Primer, a weekday daily on Rac-1 radio station, and in case he lacks time, he’s just made his belated debut Night Host with LateXou. A sour humor show about the territorial separation of Catalonia from TVE, in which, “inspired by Rosa Maria Sardà, Guillermina Motta and Joan Collins of Dinastía”, he uses vindictive monologues and eloquent interviews to better deal with the bad mood, that overtakes us on Sunday night.
Questions. Now that everyone wants to work less, he decides to host and host another show. Doesn’t all that work overwhelm you?
Answer. What people want is better work, right? I am privileged to be able to do interesting work from privileged platforms. So much work is by inheritance. There is an ancient wisdom from before Christ in my family: the fear of poverty and lack. so i need it I also think that this question would not be asked of a doctor or traumatologist if he had three patients left to treat.
Q Is that because you see yours as a public service too?
R No, it’s just that sometimes we feel like we can’t make up our minds and say no to a job or not do something.
Q And did you say no?
R Yes, pretty much. I could make you a list. To things I can’t do or that were very well paid for. I think I said more no than yes when it came to work.
Q And why did he say yes to a late night?
R Because Santi Villas offered it to me who is also my husband. He worked in Madrid, presented this project and they bought it with the worm that I was in it.
“I can’t afford to part with myself. I work with my nerves,” says Marc Giró.Gianluca Battista
Q What interests you about the format?
R That it’s a classic program and always works in the end because it’s been on TV for four million years. It has its own ritual that needs to be respected and that is great practice.
Q But within this formal structure it transcends. In her monologues, she pleads for free and free abortion and defends radical feminism at all costs.
R To be honest, I don’t think I’m transgressing anything. What I want is to belong. As for the issues, well, the truth is, what you’re asking me strikes me as odd. What surprises me is that more is not being done. If they pay you to portray reality, that’s the right thing, right?
Q For example, a monologue like him saying “straight people are late” isn’t the same as hearing Toni Cantó’s message late at night.
R I haven’t seen this man’s program but I can assure you my set is the best lit. We know where to place the headlights. And although I love the baroque or the romanesque, that’s not what the decent can offer in 2023. I have great respect for people. You can’t give people pigs for a sack. people are smart.
Q That goes against what we were always told in the newsrooms: “Even my aunt in Cuenca must understand that.”
R Well, your aunt from Cuenca is also a very smart aunt, people are not stupid.
He filmed ‘LateXou’ JOSEP ECHABURU with Cristina Rosenvinge at one point in his programme
Q In the last programme, he joked about the controversial late-night sacking of Manel Vidal, a staffer at TV3’s Zona Franca, and pretended to fire one of his screenwriters live. Do you have limitations that you don’t want to address in your program?
R The limits is a wrong debate. A limit is the time the program lasts or the characters an item has. In art it is fundamental to go too far or not, or to contract again. Listen, excuse me, it may sound presumptuous, but I believe that the charter of human rights is the guide to adhere to, not the limit. You have to be vigilant and constantly check which rights we have acquired and which we want to keep.
Q And have you decided not to address a certain topic?
R What actually surprises me is the large amount of space given to opinion leaders, women and men, who are given space in their newspaper, but also in other newspapers, against the trans law. I don’t understand how they can treat him like that.
Q In what sense?
R As soon as a trans person explains to you what their business is about, you understand the topic perfectly. There should be less focus on what they call gender ideology, which by the way we don’t know what the hell it is – and never better said – and more on the fascist ideology that surrounds us. There is no possible equidistance in this topic.
Marc Giró, on his set of ‘LateXou’.JOSEP ECHABURU
Q Now he flies alone, but recently he denounced that they always accompany a co-host on TV to slow down his character a bit.
R That’s because of the spring, which is always suspect. For example, they say to me: “You speak very quickly.” What I think they mean: “Don’t talk so much, we control you.” Now something very strange is happening to the women who broadcast sporting events. People are being harassed by a woman broadcasting a Barca goal.
Q Why do you think it’s happening?
R Because we are less used to it. In the program I have the Glorias Cabareteras, which are two ladies who talk to each other at the same time, hastily and wildly. You have to learn and be surprised. It also cost cubism or modernism to assimilate and look now.
Q Las Glorias Cabareteras use inclusive language in the program.
R First of all, it’s a question of respect for someone who says to you, “Look, I want you to address me male, female, neutral, I don’t know how many or whatever”. It is a question of humanity to be in harmony with nature and thus to take better care of each other. And then of course humor can be done because it’s a damn mess, what if the tuti, what if the totis. But while it may seem very funny, the people who need this social change really do need it. I who have been a fag is very nice if it seems, although it is from the s century. XIX By speaking in this way one is able to put words, to express oneself of one’s own nature and of one’s own identity, or whatever one wants to call it now. But to be able to do it calmly. After all, it’s great to have people at peace.
He turned around and the Glorias Cabareteras (behind him), in the elevator, which all the guests of his program are boarding, like Santi Millán (on the left) JOSEP ECHABURU
Q It was in women’s magazines, on the radio and on TV, where do you suffer more?
R See, only the fallen angels of women’s magazine, those of us who have walked by and left her can say one thing that we’re going to say with all the letters, because it’s already good. You have to apologize to women on your knees. And I did it on my set.
Q Where do you think there is more undercover posh?
R I always thought it had something to do with the money you have. And if you inherited it from your family that it didn’t cost you anything to earn it, then congratulations from here, because you’re a Nobel laureate. But I’ve also thought about it a lot and I believe that every person who has a privilege has not only the wealth of the Pijerío but also their casuistry.
Q Like who?
R Those who considered themselves first class citizens. Those who knew history and had even gone through a revolution. But then you find out that this person has an employee at home – mostly migrant women, by the way, or “brown women” as Rocío Quillahuaman called them – and it turns out that this woman is not insured. A thing that, by the way, the law wants to eradicate thanks to this coalition government. So there’s no point in reading you a new anagram notebook, visiting an exhibition, and then having a drink. That doesn’t make you a better citizen for you.
Q What do you do to detach yourself from yourself?
R I never separate I am a person who has always been anxious and I work with the nerve. I can not afford it.
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