NATALIA TENA by Klara Waldberg for 1883 Magazine, January 2023

You alright? Yeah. You’re not.

I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

 PS: Some of them are actually singers, so they have their own music videos, but the others are just participating on it.

“I’m not a rock star. I play classical gypsy music and my aim is to help people to get laid at the end of the night and dance and forget their worries. I think maybe a lot of people see this as a lifestyle choice. It is amazing and great to make people dance and happy and forget their worries for a while.“

“[What kind of role do you want to see women doing more of in movies?] What I’d really love is a big age bracket. I’m 30. Why are you trying to cast younger women for older roles? Why? It’s fucking unacceptable because obviously then, society thinks that’s what a 35-year-old looks like, and so women in real life feel like shit about themselves. And, basically there needs to be more writing written by ethnic minorities and by women, so we get a broader spectrum of stories. We need more stories that aren’t just by white men.”

“I’m not a rock star. We don’t play rock. I play classical gypsy music and my aim is to help people to get laid at the end of the night and dance and forget their worries. I think maybe a lot of people see this as a lifestyle choice. And it is amazing and great to make people dance and happy and forget their worries for a while.”