PARK CITY,
Utah.- At 27 years old he is one of the most
an
internationally renowned
young
Mexican actors, and despite that fact he already has two decades in his
career. During the last few months the Charolastra has done
everything... Returned to theatre, acted in cinema, produced
various full-length films, and debuted as director.
But in the
middle of all that, Diego also got depressed. He got fed up with his
profession and started exploring other ways, until one day the
script for The Night Buffalo came to his hands, the
movie that rescued his acting and that perhaps got him the best
performance of his entire career.
What did this
movie represent for you?
Diego: A lot of
effort (stress) and a big risk, but it returned the desire to act to
me.
Had you lost
your desire?
Diego: Yes,
because my energy was more focused on producing, playing football
and acting, which is what I’ve been doing since I was seven years
old.
You have
completed two decades of acting...
Diego: I
started when I was seven years old. At this age I did my first work
of theatre and now it has been 20 years of doing it, it’s a long
time, and suddenly I said, "Yes, I’m tired and this is the reason
why I am producing, directing, because I want to make something new."
The shooting of
The Buffalo...
did it change everything?
Diego: Yes, but
I suddenly started holding on another way and with The Night
Buffalo I found myself surprised of the great thing that I liked
to surrender myself in that manner and do a character like that. It
also gave me the energy to go away later to play a Michael
Jackson impersonator (Mister Lonely), something very strange,
because I wasn’t a fan of this guy.
The JC Chávez
documentary was a refuge?
Diego: A
refugee is someone who listens to a bomb and goes into hiding. I did
not hear the bomb, but when I saw The Night Buffalo at
Sundance I said to myself: I take so much time doing a documentary
with good reason, bringing up a production house, seeing and giving
opinions on other people’s projects.
And has it been
a big breather (break)?
Diego: Yes, a
very cool breather (break).
Do you also get
tired of fame?
Diego: You always get tired of everything. The coolest thing about
work is the moment that you display it. It’s cool to know that there
is fame, that people want to see you, because people appreciate you
and feel that you’re a good dude. But there are times when you get
tired and you say: What a wish to stay locked up a while! But in
comparison to everything that this career gives you, it would be
stupid to complain.
I believe that
Manuel in The Buffalo is the most complex character of your
career...
Diego: He is a
lonely guy, a liar and capable of swallowing all the pain alone. He
is swallowing it and turning it into a bomb that’s on the verge of
exploding. Manuel is a guy that can forget to eat for an entire day
if his girlfriend Tania stays in the hotel room with him. He doesn’t
need anything more than her, although inside he is consumed.
It also
represented a physical challenge...
Diego: I was
very worn out, I grew thin, I went so far as to weigh 66 kilos [145
lbs.], eight less than the usual. I had to be skinny but energetic,
so that I would not become a junkie. They were four fucked up
months, but when I finished I went away to Chile and Colombia so
that I could recover and eat well.
What is the
most lamentable thing about acting?
Diego: Whenever I return to Mexico to tell anecdotes, you realize that
it makes no sense to tell them because they do not believe you, or
those who listen to you were not there, then they become very
solitary experiences and tales.
Is the
documentary ready?
Diego: Almost,
it’s going to be incredible to finish it and show it to people. I
don’t know what I’m going to do afterwards. I imagine a few months
traveling, showing my work and taking it easy, because the best
education of the last year and a half of my life is that I need
patience to keep on enjoying what I do.
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