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it. In a TV series where the speed is brutal and in 7 months know who I am as a person and as an actor, and on a set it's
you shoot more than 1000 scenes, you wonder if that is re- hard for me to get nervous. On the contrary, it´s the place I
ally essential: I think that if it can be justified that the char- want to be.
acter is a Spaniard who has been in Colombia for a few years
then you give it truthfulness, in the end the accent doesn´t Has it ever happened to you not having any feeling with a
matter. Of course, it can´t always be like that and I´ve often colleague with whom you had to work a long time with?
missed characters because it had to be a Colombian. To me, I'm going to be very sincere: yes. Acting is a profession
it´s not worth it if the audience has to pay more attention to where emotions are running high and it’s difficult to film
your accent rather than your interpretation. In Fugitivos, for with someone who doesn’t have empathy with the work of
instance, the protagonist was Colombian but when I did the others. This is team work. I try to make my colleagues feel
casting they liked me so much that they justified the change comfortable. Actually, actors who work alone are people
of the character. There it was perfectly feasible. with complexes and insecurities. I have met some and there
The real problem is when you finish filming in Colombia and you must show that you are capable of moving the scenes
the next day you take a plane to shoot in Spain. It happened forward. I experienced it on one occasion at the beginning
to me when I had to film Secretos de Estado. In rehearsals, I of my career in Spain and also in Mexico, just briefly. It is
realised that the producer was looking at me as if I was not much better when you share and build as a team: not trying
going to make it. So I locked myself in with a linguist and a to outdo more than your partner, knowing how to appreci-
singing teacher to smooth out those nuances that had re- ate the other ones scene, being generous and receiving the
mained in my speech. In any case, we live in globalised times same treatment.
where actors move a lot and accents matter less, and Netflix
is helping a lot in this. Is there a project you can tell us about? How do you
visualise your near future?
How do you prepare your characters? Are you one of The 2020 pandemia has served to start me writing again,
those who shut themselves up to study psychology and which is one of the things I like the most. I´ve studied for
history, investigate and do interviews, or just follow it, but I’ve never had the time to dedicate myself, until now,
method and tables? when I´ve written my first series. Its reception has been
It is one of the most beautiful parts of my profession. The positive and I´m in conversations with a producer. On the
issue is having the discipline and the aim of becoming an ac- other hand, being such a difficult year I’ve had the honour
tor who can play characters that are outside of your comfort to be part of Masterchef Celebrity Colombia (which will be
zone. That's when you really see the talent. If it´s already dif- transmitted late August) and also to shoot in Ibagué, my first
ficult to show truth in front of a camera when you´re playing Colombian film, ¿Qué corre por tus venas?, by Felipe Vallejo,
a character that´s similar to you, then you reach another where I play the main character, Hollywood. It´s a project
level when you show truth playing characters completely that has taken 8 years to materialize and finally it´s been
different from your personality. Therefore, if you don’t pre- done this year. Most surely its premiere will be in November.
pare you´re very limited when it comes to interpreting. One
thing is to star in a successful series at a given moment and rodaje de | shooting of ¿qué corre por tus venas?
quite another to have a 30 to 40 year career as an actor. Of
course, I love to prepare myself, investigate and endow the
characters with things that are not mine, while at the same
time impregnate them with my own stuff, this is inevitable.
It´s impossible that a character doesn´t have certain things
of one and your experiences. In any case, one of the most
beautiful moments of my profession is when I start a project
and I have to create the character that I´m going to play.

At this point of your career, do you still feel anxious or
stressed on film sets? Fear of not convincing in the role
you´re playing?
I think the job of an actor is like any other, and one realises
how experience is a plus that gives you security. Nowadays, I
still could have anxiety if it's a very complex scene or maybe
if I had to shoot in LA with a Hollywood actor. Despite the
experience, I think that actors have tough times during cast-
ings, when you really want a role and you aren’t sure that
you´re going to get it. After all, it's impossible to give a good
performance if you're not relaxed. And it's very nice when
you get it and everything flows. I'm at a time where I already