Pablo Motos and Karla Sofía Gascón: friends forever

On Tuesday, actress Karla Sofía Gascón returned to The anthill Four months after their first visit, the reunion between the presenter and the guest was radically different from the relationship they established on the first day. The change in attitude on both sides had a clear trigger: the scandal of the actress's xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Catalan, and classist tweets that affected her image days before the Oscars gala.

On the first visit to promote Emilia PérezPablo Motos was on the defensive and focused the conversation on the actress's trans status, taking a rather morbid approach. For his part, Gascón, aware of the presenter's conservative reputation, had an arrogant and rebellious attitude, dismissing Motos's questions. It was a tense and unpleasant exchange. Beyond how it affected the content of the conversation, both felt the need to distance themselves from their interlocutor. It was a failed interview in which Motos failed to handle the situation and Gascón's arrogance, who didn't even provide a good explanation of the film she was promoting.

It is very significant, however, how the tweet scandal and the online lynching transformed both of their characters. Motos, who at the time must have grown fed up with the guest, saw the global controversy as a new attraction with an underlying message that fit his interests like a glove. And Gascón knew that the presenter's attitude worked wonders for him now because it perfectly suited the characteristics of his own drama.

In the second meeting, the actress reappeared with a much lower and more docile profile. She listened to the questions and rambled in her answers: it was all the result of a misinterpretation and a campaign by an evil Matrix that lurks in the virtual world. Motos put aside the trans issue that had so obsessed him on the first day and showed solidarity with the woman lynched by the cruel sphere. wokeThis time, Pablo Motos and Karla Sofía Gascón became lifelong friends. They were united by victimhood and the "nothing can be said anymore." She even compared herself to Jesus Christ nailed to the cross. The actress, aware of her need to forge new alliances, even paused the conversation to sing the praises of the presenter and his media success. She then urged him to remember the awards she had won, as if it were an exchange of favors. Never, under any circumstances, did the presenter confront her about her tweets to clarify any hypothetical misinterpretations of their content. Rather, it seemed like a pre-interview pact. The way the two protagonists readjusted their bond and their relationship is unequivocal proof of the extent to which The anthill has evolved into a space with a strong ideological charge beyond entertainment.