They have just released 42 Segundos, a film that narrates the historical passage of the Spanish water polo team through the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. 42 Segundos, delicacy to narrate the change in the history of Spanish water polo.
A true story that had all the elements to become a movie. This is how Jaime Lorente and Álvaro Cervantes speak of the great feat achieved by the Spanish water polo team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Many believed that the team led by Manel Estiarte had no options, and yet they took silver -and his first Olympic medal- in a heart-stopping final against Italy. Now, the story has been told again on the big screen through 42 Segundos, in theaters from September 2.
The film, directed by Àlex Murrull and Dani de la Orden, and with a script by Carlos Franco, tells the story of our country’s water polo dream team. How lifelong Catalan players got together with a group of new promises from Madrid and, under the harsh guidelines of Croatian coach Dragan Matutinović, prepared for the Games in which they would end up making history.
“The film recounts that journey. The sports journey, the emotional journey and how the two come together in the pool”, explains Jaime Lorente from the Old Estrella Damm Factory. The interpreter, who plays Pedro García Aguado in the film, shares the spotlight -and now table- with Álvaro Cervantes, who puts himself in the shoes of Manel Estiarte.
At the time of this interview, the film has not yet been released. In fact, there are only a few hours left for the preview, and nerves and emotion are sensed in equal parts. From what is said, because there has been involvement of some of the protagonists of the original story and because for a large part of the film’s team, this project that began to take shape in 2017 with Àlex Murrull and Cristian Valencia -producer and interpreter of Jesús Rollán on film- has been the biggest challenge to date. “I had vertigo”, admits Álvaro.
Like many young people born in the 1990s, the two-time Goya nominee for El Juego del Ahorcado (2007) and Adú (2020) only vaguely knew the story: “I did know about this selection that was mythical, but I didn’t know the ins and outs of it at all and what it had really meant. When I read the script, I was surprised that it hadn’t been told earlier”. “There are all the elements. That strange element that comes from outside, the common goal, the impediments…”, Jaime agrees.
“They gave me the script on a Friday afternoon and I devoured it. I knew I was going to do that character because I couldn’t say no. But over the weekend I was pondering what that was going to mean, that starting Monday my life I was going to change for a few months. It was such a big, titanic challenge, the fact of getting even closer to the idea of an elite athlete…”, assures the Catalan actor without being able to hide the passion that, like his partner, he feels for the project.
From actors to Olympic athletes: the training sessions carried out by the cast.
The team of actors that make up the main cast of 42 Segundos also had to become a water polo team. A transformation that required almost five months of training in which they not only had to learn to play, but also to move in the water like a player of this sport.“We had to learn to float, to swim, to breathe in the water… and to play water polo. We have had to learn many things and everything is ours”, the Murcian actor makes clear. “We can say that we have not had doubles”, Álvaro also comments proudly. And it is not for less: the Bernat Picornell Pools, which hosted the grand finale that August 92, have also been the setting in which Jaime, Álvaro and company went out of their way to recreate history.
Despite the fact that both have worked on historical projects that required physical effort, they say that 42 Segundos has been another level. “The first day we were in the water… I knew that Jaime had done an incredible job in El Cid and I had done Carlos, Rey Emperador, which for me had been the biggest challenge. But at that moment, in the water, I remember that we looked at each other and I told him: “I thought that after El Cid and Carlos a challenge like this was not going to come. It has arrived”, reveals the interpreter from Barcelona.
But 42 Segundos has not only required an added physical effort. It has also meant playing real people who were going to see the end result. Players, ‘Toto’ and Estiarte, whom these actors consider “so iconic and so good”, who lived through some years as intense as they were hard. And whose personal stories have lights and shadows.
Both Pedro -who even makes a ‘cameo’ in the film- and Estiarte have devoted themselves to the project, answering questions from both interpreters and, ultimately, helping them to understand their respective characters more. The involvement of the former players, they say, has been “absolute”.
“There has been a predisposition from both Manel and Pedro and other colleagues to let fiction make its way. It was very complicated, but they have understood very well how cinema works. How we have needed to put together things that perhaps happened in years in a period of time of six months. And they have been for us at all times. They have given us everything they are so that we can make them the best possible”, says the actor of La Casa de Papel. “The ultimate goal was for them to like it. That when Manel saw the film he would identify with it, recognize himself in some way, get excited and be calm. I would have been very screwed if it hadn’t been like that”, confesses Álvaro.
Sometimes it is talked about how an actor manages to ‘make his own’ a character. But is that possible when the character exists and is present in the project? “I had an acting teacher who talked about the obligations as an actor. If in a scene I read: ‘A girl enters the scene with a red dress’. What is mandatory for the scene to happen? That the girl wears a red dress. What obligations do I have as an actor for the character to be Pedro? And later, when these obligations are fulfilled, I can take some licenses. But the essence has to be there”, explains Jaime.
“When an actor imposes himself on the story, for me it is an erroneous way of approaching the work. You cannot tell yourself before the character. You have to withdraw as much as possible for the character to appear, although obviously this is also born of you and your experience”, adds the interpreter of the former captain of the national team.
42 Segundos has not only been the greatest challenge at an interpretive level but, in Jaime’s words, it has been “the most beautiful journey” to date. “For many reasons. Because of the character, because of the story, because of the team, because of my main ‘partner’ [points to Álvaro]. And because magical things have something that you can’t explain… It makes my hair stand on end”, reveals showing the arm. “It’s like this had to happen. And I tell many colleagues for whom it was their first project, that it’s a gift but it’s also a bitch, because you don’t know how difficult it is for it to happen again”, he says.
The best thing about this whole trip? That from a project that was born from the love that the filmmaker Àlex Murrull felt from the beginning for the original story -Álvaro confesses- a family has emerged. “The human team that has been created is the soul of the film. All the actors have left their lives even if they only had a few minutes (…). There was so much involvement that any gesture raised the film. There are moments of each partner that are brilliant because they are truly nourished”.
It was the first time that Jaime and Álvaro have coincided on the same project and, despite the fact that they recognize that they are very different and have different ways of working, the complicity between the two is palpable inside and outside the film. “I have a feeling that on several occasions when we were recording together, when they said ‘action!’ the moment became something sacred. Without doing anything special; it went without saying. We were there breathing another reality together, creating it”, recalls the Barcelonan.
“There is a photo in which we are on the same trip. We are listening to the director, but we are already preparing ourselves… There is something in the look of the two that indicates that we are on the same thing. It has been a perfect tandem. From some very good characters writings”, continues Álvaro. His co-star supports him: “We only discussed it later. I have never felt such a fine line between me and my character… I have been what is on screen during filming. That is acting, cinema”.
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The two actors play the medalists Manel Estiarte and Pedro García Aguado in the film 42 Segundos, which revives the legendary Spanish team that made history in the Olympic Games from Barcelona 92.
On the day of the (virtual) interview, a couple of weeks ago, Jaime Lorente (Murcia, 1991) greets the camera with a still sleepy face: he has slept an hour, he says, after finishing the filming of Cristo y Rey, the series he portrays the turbulent relationship between the tamer Ángel Cristo (whom he plays) and Bárbara Rey (Belén Cuesta). He is in Madrid, already recovered from the corneal injury that he suffered in said filming, and in a few hours he escapes for the well-deserved vacation.
On the next screen, Álvaro Cervantes (Barcelona, 1989) smiles with a more relaxed appearance. Also based in the capital, these days he rests in his Catalan refuge, recharging batteries for the imminent promotion and the premiere of the film that has brought them together for the first time on screen: 42 Segundos.
They are two actors on the rise, they share a generation, they are thirty-something years old and therefore they did not experience in first person the Olympic milestone of Barcelona 92 that their new film evokes. But they have passionately plunged into the personal conflicts, the sacrifice and the overcoming of that water polo team through their captain, Manel Estiarte (Álvaro Cervantes), and Pedro García Aguado (Jaime Lorente). That team that seemed to have few podium options a priori but to which the arrival of a Croatian coach, Dragan Matutinovic, who applied his military hand to the players, with cruel training, shook their game and their results, until an epic final, with silver medal.
Álvaro Cervantes speaks calmly, and looks like a discreet young man, with a point of surfer in vacation mode. Jaime Lorente seems more temperamental, he defines himself sensitively, and his career reveals him to be restless and versatile. Boxing, he has published a book of poems, A propósito de tu boca, plans to write and direct his own story (“I need to go beyond acting”, he has pointed out) and also composes and sings rap, with good reception.
Cervantes’ career has been progressive, without sudden media successes like Lorente, but solid and constant. Between his two Goya nominations (revelation for El juego del ahorcado and Adú) he has stood out in films such as Tres metros sobre el cielo, Hanna or El árbol de la sangre, with Júlio Medem, and series such as Carlos, Rey emperador or El tiempo que te doy.
Now they get into the shoes of two exceptional water polo players. Lorente plays Pedro García Aguado, a medalist who had to deal with his own addictions (“I missed the best moments of my life”), alcohol and drugs, which put his career in danger. Then Aguado has been able to take advantage of those experiences to help troubled young people as a coach on the successful television program Hermano mayor.
Cervantes plays Captain Manel Estiarte, the Maradona of water, the six-time Olympic water polo player. The film, directed by the prolific blockbuster Dani de la Orden and newcomer Álex Murrull, delves into the interiorities of that legendary water polo team, the rivalries and tensions, the Croatian coach who pushed them to the limit (Estiarte has come to say that humiliated them, subjected them to extreme training, such as ascents to the Andorran mountain), although it also injected them with the conviction that they could beat anyone.
For both interpreters, embodying Estiarte and García Aguado has required exhaustive preparation: they had to be convincing not only as fit actors, but also as elite athletes.
How were the trainings? Not as hard as the ones Matutinovic taught on his day, I imagine…
Jaime Lorente: I think that at our level it was as hard as it was for the real team with Dragan, because we started from scratch and we had to reach the level of elite players. The screen is not deceiving and we work very hard not to need specialists in any scene. We had a hard time getting to that level.An extra pressure to that of the paper itself…
Álvaro Cervantes: Yes, it is the first thing you ask yourself when you receive the script. That your life is going to be that of an elite athlete. You change the chip and think about how you eat, how you sleep, the number of hours you dedicate to exercise to perform at your best in the water.
Jaime Lorente: There is no other way…
Álvaro Cervantes: They gave me the script on a Friday night and I spent the weekend thinking about what was coming my way, knowing that I wanted to make the film. From then until the shooting, five months passed and it was all training.The rehearsals, in the water…
Álvaro Cervantes: The truth is that we end up more tired of water than we imagined a priori. At first we even decided to continue after filming in an amateur water polo team.
Jaime Lorente: It is clear that this was no more than an idea…
Álvaro Cervantes: It gave us the high, we wanted to keep that sport so hard that it cost us so much to achieve, but we have not fulfilled it. Apparently it is a sport that once you leave it, it is very difficult to return to it. When we both lived in Madrid, a former player began to train us, Rafa Fernández, a guy very dedicated to the film, who gave us a lot of power. Already in Barcelona, we had Tato, the official shooting coach. It was good because we reproduced that meeting between the actor-players who came from Madrid and those who were in Barcelona, just as it happened in reality and caused conflicts in its day due to the different way of understanding the sport. And that helped us situate ourselves in the script.Were they already in shape?
Jaime Lorente: I am an athlete, I have always liked running a lot.
Álvaro Cervantes: I don’t, really, I prepare myself when it’s time, but it’s hard for me. Until now I was not interested in sport, I did not understand it. Now I understand what it means also on a mental level.Do you see parallels with acting? In both cases, the rivalry must leave room for camaraderie, so that the result works.
Álvaro Cervantes: Dedicating your life to a competition seems very beastly to me, but the obsession that an actor can have in reaching an ideal of acting is actually something similar.
Jaime Lorente: Of course, there are points in common. They are two professions that depend on a human team, on how each element finds its place. That happens on a film set and on a soccer field.
Álvaro Cervantes: In this case, our physical training has also been our rehearsal and you rarely have so much time for it. The roles of each one in the team were forged in those sessions. And that complicity was noticed later on filming.
Jaime Lorente: A team was really created.Did the real protagonists, Estiarte and García Aguado advise you?
Jaime Lorente: They have always been very open to talk with us and totally in favor of the film.
Álvaro Cervantes: They have been very generous in telling us how they lived through it, who they are without hesitation, in meeting us and chatting while looking into our eyes. Something very valuable, because emotionally there are things that when you meet the person you detect and make you understand what they are like, how they lived it. It’s a gift. It is impressive to embody one of the best athletes in history, whom I already consider a friend. There were days that I called him before shooting to ask him for details… Priceless, wow.
Jaime Lorente: I saw in Pedro a hyper-special sensitivity. He seems like a huge guy to me, with a lot of charisma and sensitivity, which is where I clung to, that emotional, fragile part. Luckily he was very excited after seeing the film, very shocked and happy.
Álvaro Cervantes: I, to be honest, until I spoke with Manel after seeing the film, I was not completely calm. The biggest spectator for me was him. And he liked it, he told me very nice things.Did they tell you their opinion about the mistake that made that Olympic final get out of hand?
Jaime Lorente: There was a lack of communication or they just did what they had to do and it didn’t work out.
Álvaro Cervantes: If they had done anything else they would have disobeyed the coach. In the end, it is a team and you have to respect the rules. That coach, despite the fact that he gave them a hard time, led them there. In the final moment he indicated a type of defense that they considered inadequate. They looked at each other, clearly that order was out of tune, but Estiarte decided to go to hell with that instruction, even though he didn’t believe in it. Surely they regret having obeyed, but it is what they had to do.A special moment of the shoot.
Jaime Lorente: For me, the beginning of filming, when we did the scenes in the swimming pools. It was like starting on top of a mountain, the most difficult. We thought: if we can get through these weeks, the rest will be easier. We all had to take great care of ourselves, it was a litmus test.
Álvaro Cervantes: I remember moments with Jaime of looking at each other in the water when we almost couldn’t take it anymore. We no longer knew if it was us or the characters, encouraging us to comply. And that hug between all…How has this story enriched you?
Jaime Lorente: I would stay with the emotional journey that the film team has had, similar to the real one; the connection with everyone, who has worked hard to train. That pineapple that has been created I take with me forever; sometimes cinema and reality merge. This has been our cinematographic feat, also very hard.
Álvaro Cervantes: In the end, the film is about recognition, which in a more superficial way could be that medal, but above all how the characters end up recognizing the other, valuing the good that it brings them. It happened in the team and also between us. In the end, acting is just that: a back-and-forth job. You can’t work on this alone.They faced their fears. What scares you?
Jaime Lorente: Many things, many, although fear has never paralyzed me. Stay alone, that something happens to the people you love. Fear has many sizes.
Álvaro Cervantes: They face their fears because the other is with them. Beyond overcoming, sports feat, it is when they accepted themselves and the other that success came. Nobody achieves anything alone.
Jaime Lorente: It’s still a love story. Acceptance is one of the reflections of love. When one loves what is next to him and what he does, things turn out well or at least if they don’t turn out well they are beautiful.What do you think about this idea of success and failure? Winning is everything and silver is a failure, but it has gone further than ever.
Jaime Lorente: They are stipulated terms, but for me it is something totally subjective, hyper-individual, that lives within one. One can fail by winning a gold or succeed simply by entering the Games. It is very subject to what others consider of you. The movie recounts that journey, the realization that success lies elsewhere. And that with a silver in hand, when we hug, we say: “This is a success of ostia!”
Álvaro Cervantes: They explain that they felt pain in the heart for that silver medal, but that propelled them to win gold four years later. That preparation and that bittersweet silver was the learning, the real success. And that is something I share. Over time is when you understand things. It is necessary to give him the perspective that he needs at each moment, not to remain in the most instinctive perception.What do they have in common with their characters? Jaime, impulsive like García Aguado? Álvaro, introverted like Estiarte?
Jaime Lorente: I consider myself a good guy, and I try to have fun with the things I do. And there are innocent things about me that I try to take care of and I think he has. My demons also sometimes come out with too much force, I don’t control them, although there is always a ‘little light’ there.
Álvaro Cervantes: I am not as introverted as Estiarte in the film, but he is many more things, the film shows only part of it. I do share his determination and I understand the emotion of his search, of his preparation.How have you two connected personally?
Jaime Lorente: I think we agree on the love we put into work, we are both a little sick of this. I admire him a lot and if you admire someone, everything has been said.
Álvaro Cervantes: I agree with Jaime. It has been a great discovery, I admire his courage, his passion for the job. In this film I have experienced a sequence (I don’t want to reveal which one)… something that has happened to me very rarely. An instant of surrendering to the situation, the other, of flying as an actor, although it sounds cliché. A moment where the characters and the action took over us. For living moments like that I dedicate myself to this.In sport the objectives are very clear: podiums, medals… In your career, what is the goal?
Jaime Lorente: Me, support my family, now I’m a father…
Álvaro Cervantes: Live more characters and stories like this. I started when I was 15 years old, now I am 32… More than half my life working, it has passed very quickly. My goal is to continue enjoying what this profession offers me and the life, of course, of the people I love, of those who are yet to come.Jaime says goodbye, arrives late, goes on a trip: disconnection before the spotlight. Álvaro continues for a few more minutes in the telematic chat, explaining how much he enjoys the pre-shooting, the preparation of the character, that “getting into another world” and in projects that “I still cannot advance”. Now, he assures him, “what I need is to rest”. Cooking, “something I really like” and going to the movies a lot, which is difficult with filming. “I am seeing the entire billboard. And I will be in Donosti. I really want a movie binge”, he says.
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Jaime Lorente has just released “La noche”, his first EP as an artist. A collection of songs with which he debuts and bets on his career as a singer and musical author.
Hand in hand with one of the most in-form producers on the national rap and urban scene, Pablo Gareta, Jaime has created an EP with five songs: “Saturday”, “Sra Smith”, “Guapo y Loco”, “El Chaval” and “Lengua de Gato”.
Disco bangers, with a nostalgic and electronic sound. Between raps and catchy melodies, giving free rein to his creativity, Jaime delves into the music industry with lyrics that reveal the most nocturnal facet of him, the darkest and most lively part that we all have within him. Although the artist reveals that his greatest wish is tranquility.
You are a restless person who never stops discovering new artistic facets. For you, what is “the art of living”?
A moment in my life has come when I consider that “The art of living” is to be calm, and being calm has a lot to do with knowing what one is, being very honest… And knowing that, to enjoy, one can be at night at a party, but you can also enjoy watching a movie at home, knowing what it is and respecting yourself a lot.With so many new projects underway, why did you decide to embark on this G’Vine adventure, which brings you “the art of living” as an ambassador?
It was the brand that somehow became very interested in this jumble of artistic concerns that I have and said: “Why don’t we put it together and turn Jaime into the image of G’vine showing this”. It fits me perfectly.What does the work of a singer give you that the work of an actor does not?
For me, music is not just the fact of creating songs, it is the relationship that I have with my producer, with Pablo Gareta, who in some way I have always felt has saved my life and has taught me a way to communicate and give sense to many things that were inside my head and didn’t make sense. Everything that has to do with music has to do with him. He is my best friend and that drives me crazy.How did the idea of starting to compose songs come about?
In quarantine I was having a very bad time. Suddenly I started researching music, because I had always liked to rap and write, but I had no idea how to build a song, how to do it and searching YouTube I found a masterclass by Pablo Gareta, I wrote to him and he said: “What you do is very messy but I think we can do something together”. And up to here.What has always been your true passion, acting or composing?
Feel free, really. I think that through both things, composing and acting, I feel very free.One of the songs that has already accumulated millions of views on digital platforms is “Guapo y Loco”. What do you take away from the collaboration with Natos?
He is another of my best friends, he is the other person who has given me everything. Of Natos I always say that we are the same person in two different bodies, if we didn’t love each other so much we would hate each other. I take everything with me, these people have taken care of me, they have taught me, they are my loves.Within the music industry, which artists would you like to collaborate with? Do you have something in mind?
Right now I’m at a point where I want to build and strengthen the style of music we make. With Natos it was easy because he has collaborated throughout this process. When I feel that I have the stone well anchored, I will look for more things.What would you say to Jaime that he started in the Denver project at LCDP?
Do what you’ve done all your life, what you want. Try to do it loving and respecting people, but… whatever you want.The process of “fame” carries a lot of social pressure. Does the Jaime who started in this entire industry of interpretation manage it differently than the one now?
Much much. I have had to go through a very strong psychological process of help to try to find a place of tranquility and coexistence with all this madness of exposure that a success like LCDP, for example, supposes. I think that now I am in a good moment, where I appreciate the positive of that, but I also appreciate the good that I have in my privacy.In this process of managing the media boom, networks and pressure, what have you learned?
The pressure that I have felt is from me towards myself, suddenly I was forcing myself to do things to achieve a success that was not mine. Everyone says that success is placed in a very determined place and you get it and say “It’s not true”. My success is still elsewhere. I do this and I love it, but my success is being really calm.Right now, what is your dream or your goal?
My goal is to build a space for my daughter of freedom, of love, where she believes that she can do whatever she wants.Jaime Lorente will be performing this summer at the most important festivals in the country, confirming his presence at the San Isidro festival in Madrid, Holika Festival, Sonica Festival, Boombastic and Arenal Sound, among others.
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The actor celebrates with us the 25 years of this iconic fragrance. And he does it by showing himself as he is: authentic, masculine, sincere, unforgettable. Like his perfume.
His talent has no limits, like the ocean. Neither was his mood: vital, delicate, brave, infinite. That is why Jaime Lorente is the skin and face of an iconic fragrance, Acqua di Giò, capable of reconciling freshness and strength in its essence. And with it we wanted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this perfume, which captures in its aroma the soul of the sea, the Mediterranean character, the power of the waves, the light and the air.
Revolutionary both -the perfume and the actor-, powerful, unforgettable… They shake hands again to invite us to seek that space in which to find ourselves. That place, physical or spiritual, in which to look inside. In which to recharge and connect with the true essence: light, water… Freedom!
Because Acqua di Giò is pure nature, a perfume charged with the future: eco-conceived and with a formula of sustainable origin. Plus? It’s refillable: bottles designed to last forever and the refill bottle attaches without a spout. Tangerine, geranium… floral and woody notes subtly wrapped in the force of the sea and presented in a format that promises the future and is committed to it. Because caring for nature is caring for the very essence of Acqua di Giò.
“Acqua di Giò… what is it for me? It is the essence that makes me connect with nature, with the deepest”. This is how Jaime Lorente begins his reflection on what this perfume means to him. You want to know more? Keep reading!
Acqua di Giò was created in 1996 by one of the best perfumers and noses in our country, Alberto Morillas. What do you think that its origin is Spanish?
Love it. I also had the opportunity to meet him in Pantelleria and it was impressive. There I understood why the fragrance is so good. He is incredible, a charm. And, honestly, he is a real pride that he is also part of our life.What did you feel when traveling to the origin?
I do not know. I felt a connection with the land and the brutal sea. I think it captures the essence of Pantelleria very well.This aroma has come to be considered as the most recognizable essence of the Mediterranean Sea itself. What do you think?
I super agree. The Mediterranean also speaks a lot about our customs. It is a men’s fragrance and I think it perfectly represents how we Mediterranean men are.What does this sea mean on a personal level?
The Mediterranean Sea for me is home. It is where I was born, where I have spent my entire childhood and where I return every time I need to reconnect with my own essence.An icon of perfumery that was also Giorgio Armani’s first men’s fragrance. How do you feel being part of an icon as powerful as this one?
I think it’s a gift, really. I feel so identified 100% in everything the brand does. In fact, it is an honor that my image is part of the history of Acqua di Giò by Giorgio Armani.When Acqua di Giò was launched you were five years old. It may be too young an age to remember anything about it, but what is your first memory of this essence?
The concept of the Armani man is something that has always been present in my imagination. Not only because of what it meant for fashion in the 90s, when I was born, but also because it is true that my father has always used Acqua di Giò. So my memory belongs to seeing it in my father’s drawers, not in the ads.Aqua di Giò reflects, as you say, perfection, the power of nature, of the sea, of infinity… With what do you empower yourself with all that?
I believe that with infinity, which is the most inaccessible. I am a great persecutor of things that, many times, I cannot reach. I think the fact of wanting to achieve things is the challenge. There is the gasoline of life.And what do you recharge with?
With my daughter. When I see my daughter is when I am aware of the responsibility I have for her to be happy and for her to live freely. I repeat to myself a lot about “my daughter is going to be free in spite of me”. She is not to blame for my fears.I see that challenges are your thing and that you demand a lot of yourself.
I think not that I’m in the wrong place, but I’m also not a typical example of success, you know? I mean, I don’t usually feel very comfortable in places where successful people feel super comfortable.You talk about success, what is success for Jaime Lorente?
For me, sleep peacefully and tell something specific. I always say that I dedicate myself to acting because I must have a wound out there with art that I try to heal a little. But it is true that, from an actor’s point of view, I love acting. I have the best job in the world and the most horrible job in the universe. It is a precious profession. But in my case, in addition, I am surrounded by truth.
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In France, surrounded by vineyards, riding in classic cars and with a gin with six centuries of history in hand. This is how we meet Jaime Lorente.
It may seem that we are describing the setting of Jaime Lorente’s next fiction, but nothing could be further from the truth.
A few months ago we traveled to France, hand in hand with G’Vine, to discover his new campaign (of which the actor is an ambassador). Thus, we learned about the origins of this French gin -the first with a grape base-, its production process, distillation… and, between glass and glass, sip and sip, we had the pleasure of chatting with Jaime, who represents the perfection the ‘art de vivre’ of the firm.
Now yes, the end is already written. Yesterday Netflix unveiled the preview of what will be the last part of one of the most viewed series on the platform and, feeling very sorry, we have to say goodbye to it.
For Jaime, saying goodbye to La Casa de Papel and his character, Denver, has not been easy either. “Closing such an important trip is beautiful but painful at the same time”, he says.
Even so, the actor is predicted by many good things, including the launch of his first EP, the premiere of a psychological horror film with Milena Smit and the filming of 42 Segundos, a film that, according to Jaime himself, “It looks great”. Here is his interview in full:
Have you already seen the end of La Casa de Papel or, rather, do you intend to?
I have not seen it yet! I will be one more spectator waiting for the opening day… What are you looking forward to!When they gave you the role, did you imagine that it would transcend as it has? Have you ever felt like your character was eating Jaime?
It is true that due to its repercussion people start calling you by your character’s name and so on, but, personally, I have never allowed Denver to eat Jaime.Have you ever considered abandoning acting precisely because of the repercussion that your latest characters have had?
No… Let’s just say that the conflicts with my craft have always resided in my insecurities, not in the success of my jobs.At this point, do you keep meeting people who don’t know who you are?
Of course I do, but I think that fame is such a lie and fleeting that it is not part of my concerns (laughs).How do you handle the criticism and everything that is said about you?
It depends on the day… From Monday to Saturday I don’t care, on Sunday if I get screwed too (laughs).‘Saturday’ is the first preview of what will be your first EP: ‘La noche’. What can you tell us about him? Why this title?
I’m very happy with the work that Gareta and I are doing with ‘La noche’. I really wanted to face a hooligan artistic event… The title refers to a journey to the place where anything can happen.Who or what inspires you in each of your facets?
My inspiration always resides in small moments that my day-to-day offers me, almost always in some detail that in principle should not waste my time much but that I usually stretch until I see when it breaks.Something that you always emphasize in your interviews is honesty. Do you think music or poetry is more honest than performance?
I believe that honesty resides in yourself, whatever you do.What other qualities are essential for you? Do you fulfill them?
Well… I’m not a moralist (laughs).I imagine that Pablo Gareta, your soul mate, brings them all together… how would you define Pablo so that people who don’t know him understand who he is and what he means to you?
Apart from being a professional like few others, he is one of the best people I have ever met.You just shot ‘Tin & Tina’, with Milena Smit. How has it been to share filming with another of the most promising faces of our country?
She is an angel. That says it all…What else does Jaime Lorente have on his hands? Where does he want to go?
Now I’ll try to get some rest. I need to feel like things.
Source : vanidad.es
Jaime Lorente is firmly committed to his musical career with a collection of songs in which he will discover his night owl side and which we will soon be able to enjoy live. The popular actor (15 million followers on Instagram), star of series such as La Casa de Papel, Elite or El Cid, has already revealed the first preview of what will be his debut EP: “La noche”.
Jaime’s interest in music comes from a very young age, listener to rap and urban music, and his friendship with producer Pablo Gareta (Natos y Waor, Toteking, …) with whom he has formed a great team, has been the trigger for the beginning of this project. “La noche” will show through five themes that nocturnal and dark part that we all have inside, which perhaps is difficult to recognize, but without which we could not also enjoy the days and the light.
This is only the first stage of a musical journey that will pass through different states of mind between hip hop, electronic and pop, and in which Jaime Lorente will have first-rate collaborators.
Source : themusicrepublic.es
La Casa de Papel was from the beginning such an exportable product — the Dalí masks worn by robbers, their aliases from international cities, the Hollywood rhythm of the storytelling — that it almost seems they had it all figured out. Except that if they had planned it it would not have turned out so well: there are shots that have to be improvised on the fly. The righteous aspect of the argument, a la Robin Hood, Ocean’s Eleven or Snatch, pigs and diamonds, caused the first readings of the phenomenon to be political. “The series makes a nod to the historical moment in which we are living, in which we all feel victims of a system that would only want our poverty”, Il Corriere della Sera analyzed. “An incitement to rebellion?” Asked Le Monde. The former mayor of Ankara asked the secret services to intervene in this “very dangerous symbol of rebellion”. Dalí masks proliferated on protesters against the Macri government in Argentina, on banknotes launched by Uruguayan anti-establishment artists, and at the Rio de Janeiro carnival. “The original name was going to be “Los Deshuciados”, because it spoke of people who were evicted and through [this robbery] they were looking for a new life”, says Lorente.
But the dimension of the phenomenon ended up dissipating any sociopolitical reading. That resounding debut thanks to Madrid-Atleti de la Champions was no accident: the potential audience for this series is the same as football, that is, practically anyone. His fans include Neymar, Romeo Santos, Chiara Ferragni, most likely ourselves and a good part of the members of our families. The popularity of La Casa de Papel has benefited from its blunt simplicity: La casa de papel is exactly the series it sounds like, one in which the leader of the band uses expressions such as “let’s mess it up” and in which the coffin from Nairobi (Alba Flores), murdered last season, had written “the whore loves”. A series that has inspired the largest escape room in Europe.
His feat has been treated in the same terms as that of a humble football team that nobody sees coming (the Dépor of the centennial, Ranieri’s Leicester in 2016), whose fans also support through badges, songs, tattoos and even a certain connection identity. There is a national pride towards the triumph of La Casa de Papel only comparable to that awakened by Nadal, Gasol or Belmonte. “It has the same elements as a football club”, says Jaime Lorente. “There is a coach, some players, a kit, an anthem, a color and some tactics”.
When the third season of La Casa de Papel aired, the first on Netflix, there was more talk about its international repercussion than about the characters. Nobody cared what La Casa de Papel meant. The colors are above their players: the star of LLa Casa de Papel is La Casa de Papel. “You are a kind of souvenir. And very cheap”, indicates Lorente regarding his role as part of the enormous gear. “You buy something at the supermarket and you want what’s inside the box. Success is more difficult to manage than failure, because failure is forgotten but success cannot be taken away even with turpentine”.
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“It’s that the premise of La Casa de Papel was already very extreme, if you accept that, anything will fit in with you”, Lorente explains. “The intention was always to make great entertainment to watch with popcorn and coke, not to wake up a revolution in Brazil”. Herrán believes that, as the screens have become small, it is the industry that has become too big: “It is consumed too much, there is too much supply and you have to distinguish yourself in something. And what are you doing? Take it all to the extreme. The perfect example is Elite, I have not seen it but everyone is telling me that this season is outrageous, that they have passed… But of course, if not, you have 10,000 identical products”.
Miguel Herran: I have spent three weeks throwing a grenade. It’s exhausting because I like to perform.
Jaime Lorente: That’s it. And there are days when you don’t feel like an actor.
M. H. Sure, you think, damn it, I’m a well-paid helper. I’m here without saying anything, doing nothing, feeling nothing, with the camera so screwed up that I don’t know if you’re really looking at me. Spending all my fucking energy to do the best I can. And there comes a moment of despair in the second week when you say, “Look man, I can’t take it anymore”. And then they tell you to hang on a bit, then your short [shot] comes. And you answer: “Sure, but why didn’t you do it a week ago!”
J. L. You are now empty.
M. H. You are completely empty.And doesn’t one feel like a child playing hitting shots?
In fact, it is not enjoyed. Think of it as a weapon that weighs three and a half kilos, that you are pretending all the time because it doesn’t really shoot. And you don’t see anything.
J. L. Dust gets into your eyes, you cough, the effects clamp goes off and something explodes in your face.
M. H. You have a firecracker here, a splinter comes out …
J. L. It is that you go with fear sometimes. Do you remember that bottle that was behind you? It’s dangerous man, it’s dangerous.
M. H. And that firecracker they put you around here? [points to arm]
J. L. Yes, yes, it blew me up in a shot.Could it be said then that they wanted to finish?
J. L. Yes, because the intensity that one lives in the filming of La casa de papel is very strong. It’s a 10 hour climax.
M. H. Of course, all the conflicts are so big, so fat, so intense, that one ends up in despair. Emotionally exhausted.And how can something that has ended up being so great be closed in conditions?
J. L. Going back to the essence of the characters, which was what people fell in love with in the beginning, the characters. The war has come later.
Source : elpais.com
Pedro Alonso, Jaime Lorente, Alvaro Morte and Alex Pina on saying goodbye to the beloved Netflix series.
No matter how near the end sits in view, it can still be hard to see it. For Jaime Lorente, he finally caught a glimpse of it on the last day of filming the final part of La Casa de Papel. He was on set in the Bank of Spain, and he and the other members of La Banda were playing out the final sequences of a heist that started as a robbery and descended into an all-out war. They were exhausted, wrapping at around 4 am, which was normal for the show’s months-long production. There was blood on their jumpsuits, but you’d never know it. In between takes, Lorente looked down at that now-iconic red jumpsuit, and then looked around at the other actors that he’d become so close to over the last five years. He pulled at the crimson cloth that covered him, and, one by one, they all did the same. ‘We had been wearing these red jumpsuits for so long, and then in that moment we realized that it was the last time we would wear them”, Lorente tells Esquire Middle East.
Lorente never knew that a simple jumpsuit and a Salvador Dalí mask would end up meaning so much to him, nor did the rest of them. Five years earlier, it was simply the costume chosen for a new heist show that would premiere on Spain’s second-most popular TV station. It aired in 15 episodes from May to November of 2017, and it made some rumblings in Spain, but its resonance was supposed to stop there. “There was a feeling of emptiness when we concluded. We had come to tell the story of robbery and we did it. It was hugely stressful to write those 15 episodes, 70 minutes long each, and shoot them in 5-6 months. In the end, I had a certain feeling of relief because I had never written or shot so fast”, says the show’s creator Alex Pina. “We were very young, we had no money, and we had to shoot twice as many constant days, so while it was a relief to finish it, we felt that we had done something good. We felt it had contributed to the genre, blending the North American branch of the genre and the Anglo-Saxon literature of the perfect robbery, creating a hybrid with black comedy with romanticism, and then suddenly it was over”.
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It is often hard to say goodbye. For Lorente, he couldn’t bring himself to say it at all. “It’s something you just can’t do, right? It’s hard to even fathom of the implications of saying goodbye to something that is so big. Until you say goodbye, you don’t realize that there are some of your co-actors that you will never talk to again or maybe never see again. So, for me, it’s not really over until you say goodbye. That’s why I don’t plan to say it”, says Lorente. Whether or not he’s ready to let go, Lorente is ready to admit one thing—this show changed his life, as surely it changed many others. “On a personal level, on a professional level, my life is completely different now. And it’s all because of this show. I think that many of the things I do have been made possible by this show. I would have possibly had a much more normal life if it wasn’t for this. If you spend one day with me, you will realize how much this show has changed the person I am, for the better. I’m so grateful for what it has given me, and given all of us”.
Lorente is not ready to say goodbye. But perhaps, in its stead, he can muster one final refrain:
Bella, ciao.
Source : esquireme.com
