„The coolest thing will be not having social media.” The line belongs to Spanish actress Silvia Abascal and sounds like a provocation, but look closer and it merely describes the direction things have already taken.

Abascal is not speaking as someone who never touched the networks. She has Instagram and says openly what she uses it for: „I have Instagram and I use it solely to promote my professional projects.” No income from content, no daily sharing. A tool, not a residence.

Her sharpest observation concerns the generation that grew up with a phone in hand: „Young people now feel that if they do not post a photo of the burger they are eating, it is as if they never experienced it.” That is not a joke at young people's expense. It is a description of a real shift - from experiencing to documenting, where an event does not count as finished until it becomes visible to others.

There is also pressure coming from outside. „They tell you a lot in this profession... that you have to feed the networks,” the actress says. The verb is exact. Networks are fed, and fed daily, and whoever feeds them ends up working for free for a platform that is not theirs.

The conversation has an occasion - the series „Cabeza alta”, the Spanish adaptation of the Italian „A testa alta: Il coraggio di una donna”, in which Abascal plays Julia, head of studies at a school. The series deals with intimate content shared without consent, a subject that is neither new nor rare in the Balkans. Her position is clear: the best answer is to show your face publicly and take the power away from the attacker, rather than hide.

That is the one point where the advice genuinely collides with instinct. When somebody exposes you, the first thing your body says is to disappear. Abascal says the opposite - that disappearing is exactly what the attacker wants. Would anyone here, in a place where shame still sticks more easily to the victim than to the perpetrator, have the strength to do that?

On set Abascal met Leonor Watling again, 24 years after they played sisters in „A mi madre le gustan las mujeres”. The change between those two shoots is not only in the years. Protection for actors during intimate scenes exists today as a rule, not as a courtesy. Some things really have improved - just not the ones we watch on the screen in our hand.