Rafael Inclan is an important part of it national cinema, theater and television, although he never really wanted to be an actor. His passion was bulls and horses. It was his rebellion and lack of money that led him into the entertainment world and from Mufflers to working with Arturo Ripstein
It was lazy. My brothers have studied, ”he admits in his signature sly tone. “I wanted to fight or become a rejoneador, but collecting for a horse was impossible and I lost a lot of time in that search, I got married very young. My mother, more than my girlfriend, was my enemy then and there came a point when she told me that since I didn’t want to study, at least I was an actor “,
Today he turns 80. It is one of the most remembered exponents of the call ficheras cinema next Alfonso Zayas, Luis de Alba and the red horseUnlike this one, he knew how to jump into a ‘more serious’ movie theater, as he describes it. “Any of my colleagues could have made the leap, some tried and didn’t work, it also has to do with humility, maybe in the ficheras cinema we were the stars and in the other we didn’t intend,” he says.
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Intuition has helped you all your life. The one who got him to play other kinds of roles before the ficheras cinema died out: “The genre was exhausted because it was being abused, it was surpassed, both the producers and the actors and even the audience. I had a certain nose to anticipate what was to come, I knew this cinema would end and I tried to take the plunge before it happened ”.
It has been said for years that these types of productions represented one of the darkest times in the industry. He refuses to believe it, says it represents a stage in Mexico in which it was what the public asked for.
“They always say it hurt national cinema, but I ask, did the Almada brothers do it any harm? India Maria movies? Cantinflas? It was genres that sold a lot, it was fun. The comedian, the attractive woman and a villain have been around all his life, in the ficheras, the villain was the pimp. They said it was a strong satisfaction, but now you see the Acapulco coast and you realize what we were doing was nothing compared to this. What they don’t understand is that the ficheras weren’t prostitutes ”.
The jump to “serious cinema” was not so easy, but a struggle that lasted ten years. Inclán recalls that moment and admits that it scared him at first, because he did not know whether it would work for him or whether the directors would bet on his work.
‘I was unsure. I always said they work less because we work in the ficheras cinema every day. Working with Ripstein was my insistence, I looked for him for 10 years, he directed a telenovela Televisbecause the sects also have to pay the rent. I was on that soap, but it never peeled me. One day in Madrid, while watching a zarzuela, my son and I ran into him at recess. I approached him and told him that if he didn’t have a role for a comic book file and he said ‘maybe’ ”.
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Months later, Ripstein arrived at one of his films and gave him a role, which Inclán turned down because the contracts he had prevented him from doing so.
“I met him in a park 10 years later. He was scouting and I jumped on him. I told him I was out of contracts, that I was no longer Mufflers and that I did not have a leading role, let him give me a job ”.
This led to the feature films The Gospel of Wonders (1998), The Colonel has not one to write (1999) and The Perdition of Men (2000), a film awarded La Concha de Plata at the San Sebastian Festival. This award was also joined by Ariel, who won Best Actor in 2004 for his role in the film Nicotina.
Despite these recognitions, Inclán believes some of its validity is based on humility, as it has never been considered an acting prodigy. “I wasn’t a child prodigy or anything, despite being an artistic family; If you’re not very smart, you marry young, you’re ruining the other person’s life, so I had to fight a lot for entrepreneurs to realize it worked. In my time it was not the audience that placed you, but the entrepreneurs ”.
Inclán reaches eighty in his current melodrama What’s Wrong With My Family ?, with a woman he has just been married to for two years and with a bypass for 20 years. He says he has never been able to count the years, the money or the recognitions and honors because he doesn’t believe much in them. The only thing you want to keep, phone calls and the affection of your people.
All terrains
The actor made 23 fichera ties with Sasha Montenegro.
He won the Ariel for Best Actor for Nicotina (2003).
Familia Gang (2014) headlined the return of Armando Casas (A Strange World).
La Promesa (2018) is his most recent film.
The data
Inclán collaborated with Ripstein from the movie The Gospel of Wonders (1998).
178 PRODUCTIONS Rafael Inclán has done it in his acting career, according to the IMDB site.
The ficheras, since the beginning of the 20th century
The ficheras they were the deputies of the people who attended the cabaret. In the WWII, to Tijuana, ships of sailors came to the northern city of the country to have a few days of fun.
They arrived alone and some required companions, where attractive women were available to have a drink with the sailors.
The sailors invited them to drink drinks that normally did not contain alcohol, but they sold them to them as if they contained alcohol. They gave the women a token for each drink they were invited to, and the tokens took a commission for each drink that was exchanged with the cashier at the bar or brothel.
Sometimes the ficheras had sex with the client, but that was not included as part of the token.
Expression
“I don’t celebrate, more joy. I appreciate the affection of my close friends and friends, the ones I still have, because at my age many have already left. The biggest compliment is a phone call” Rafael InclanActor.