🌟 “Salí a buscar el amor de mi vida… y regresé con un cartón de chelas”: la confesión más humana de Rafael Amaya 🍻

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  Durante años, el rostro de Rafael Amaya ha estado asociado con poder, peligro y seducción. Como Aurelio Casillas, el protagonista de El Señor de los Cielos , fue el símbolo de una masculinidad feroz: el hombre que lo tenía todo y que no temía a nada. Pero detrás del personaje, hay un ser humano que aprendió —con golpes, risas y lágrimas— que la vida no siempre se conquista a balazos ni con glamour… sino con humildad, humor y una cerveza en la mano. La frase “Salí a buscar el amor de mi vida y regresé con un cartón de chelas” no es solo una broma viral. Es un reflejo del nuevo Rafael Amaya. Un hombre que, después de haberlo tenido todo y perder casi todo, ha decidido reírse de sí mismo, abrazar la imperfección y celebrar los pequeños placeres que antes pasaban desapercibidos. Hubo un tiempo en que Rafael vivía en modo Aurelio : siempre acelerado, rodeado de fama, luces y ruido. El éxito de la serie lo lanzó a la cima, pero también lo sumergió en una soledad silenciosa. En 2019...
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Patricia Routledge: 'Beatrix Potter really took me over'

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"Feisty as blazes," is how Patricia Routledge describes her image of Beatrix Potter. It’s a phrase that could equally be applied to the redoubtable Routledge herself, 87 next month, but still hale and hearty and energised by the challenge of writing and presenting her first television documentary – More4’s Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge. It’s an exploration of Potter’s remarkable life, linked to the announcement of a rediscovered story, Kitty in Boots, to be published by Penguin later this year.

Filming took place over six weeks in the autumn, with Routledge rising before dawn to perfect a narration which she created herself and which she delivers (without autocue) in the crisply enunciated manner that is her trademark.

“We were a happy little team on this project, and great loving care has been put into the result,” she says proudly. “The only problem was that the weather on location was almost too good. I was thrilled when they could finally film me standing out in a proper Lake District downpour.”


Patricia Routledge in the Lake District

Oddly, Routledge never encountered Potter’s books during her pre-war Cheshire childhood. “I dimly remember becoming aware of her when I was a teenager, but she only really got to me in 1998, when I performed a one-woman show about her life devised by Patrick Garland and Judy Taylor.

“I know it sounds a bit high-falutin’, but at that point she really took me over. It wasn’t just her books that appealed to me either. I liked her toughness and independence. She had a hard head for business, and used her royalties to buy up fifteen hill farms, all of which she bequeathed to the National Trust. So she was a pioneer in the conservation of the Lake District, and in a way that is her greatest legacy.”

Today Routledge is Patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, and a cheerleader for the part her books can play in teaching children to read. Does she have a personal favourite? “Beatrix Potter always said hers was The Tailor of Gloucester; I think mine would be Mrs Tiggy-Winkle.”

The 2006 film version of Potter’s life starring Renee Zellweger did not impress her. “Chocolate-box stuff, full of misinformation. But I can understand why they cast the American girl - she had an uncomplicated freshness of personality, and there aren’t many around today who have that quality.”

She says that the continuing popularity of the books themselves, in an age of CGI and flashbang gimmicks, comes as no surprise to her. She thinks that the rediscovered story, Kitty in Boots, a story about a cross-dressing cat fits well into the canon. “[Potter] told a good story, clearly and simply," says Routledge. "The illustrations are perfection. And as you can see in this new discovery, she had a marvellous sense of humour.

"Two million copies of her books still being sold every year worldwide says it all.”

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