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Carmen Maura Leans Into Mallorcan Roots as She Promotes Calle Málaga on El Hormiguero

Her TV interview links a new film push to a renewed look at her family lineage from Mallorca.

Overview

  • Carmen Maura used a live interview on El Hormiguero to say she “married to be able to act” as she promoted Calle Málaga, which opens in Spain on April 1.
  • In the film, she plays a Spanish woman in Tangier whose routine shifts when her daughter plans to sell the family flat.
  • She described a demanding shoot in which she appears in almost every scene and said repeated takes by the director helped the story land with audiences.
  • Recent profiles highlighted that she is the great‑granddaughter of Mallorcan artist Bartolomé Maura y Montaner and related to Antonio Maura, who led Spain’s government five times.
  • Coverage also revisited her marriage to Mallorcan lawyer Francisco “Xisco” Forteza Pujol, the 1970 split after which he gained custody and moved their children to the Canary Islands, and his death in 1995.