Joan Pera is an actor and dubbing artist born in Mataró with a long professional career. Currently, we can see him in the docu-reality 3Cat humor Eight things to do before you die and until October 26, at the Teatro Condal in the comedy A surrogate father-in-law.

Actor Joan Pera studied at the Maristes Valldemia school in Mataró, where he had Josep Maria Mainat as a classmate. "I really liked school because they let me do whatever I wanted. I studied, but what I liked most was acting. I prepared the end-of-year performances, sometimes with Mainat," explains the actor. I ask him if they performed together. "One end-of-year performance we did The Merchant of Venice, and another, The death of Julius Caesar", he recalls.

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On Monday night, 8 things to do before you die It opened TV3's season of premieres. We hope the broadcast doesn't set the tone for the rest of the new shows, because Joan Pera's dreams ended up being a nightmare. The idea is simple: the veteran actor pretends to fulfill his pending aspirations. And this leads him to experiences that are supposedly daring for a man of his age and prudence. A comedy is made in which Pera pretends he wants to be a shepherd or a television reporter, and TV3 helps him make this dream a reality. If the first program was the best of the series, it's tragic to imagine what the next ones will be like. It began with Joan Pera dressed as a shepherd visiting the goat farm of Peyu, another television protagonist who in recent months has even been found in our soup. 8 things to do before you die It reiterates this endogamous inertia that feeds on the channel's regular characters, in an evident lack of imagination and resources that is worrying.

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