One year before leaving Tell me how it happened in 2018, Ricardo Gomez He had already begun to chart his new path. The filming of 1898. The last of the Philippines It became his gateway to the film industry. His role in this military epic, starring Luis Tosar and which almost represented Spain at the Oscars, was small, but it definitely marked him. That debut earned him the nomination for Goya for Best New Actor and it gave him the opportunity to take a step forward on the big screen, after 17 years playing Carlitos Alcántara in the legendary Spanish Television series.
In 1898. The last of the Philippines, -film available on RTVE Play- Ricardo Gómez plays one of the 50 soldiers who in 1898 were locked up for a year in a remote church in the Philippine village of Baler. There they resisted 337 days of siege, until the insurrection gave way to honors. An epic that is far from patriotism or anti-patriotism, neither warmongering nor anti-war. An unusual but real story that Salvador Calvo brought to the cinema in 2016, with a luxury cast. Gómez is accompanied Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Cervantes, Karra Elejalde, Miguel Herrán or who gave voice to his adult character in the series Tell me how it happened, Carlos Hipólito. The project also marked Ricardo Gómez’s first role outside of Spain. The filming of 1898. The last of the Philippines It took them to Gran Canaria and Tenerife, but also to Equatorial Guinea.
Ricardo Gómez in ‘1898. The last of the Philippines’
A starting point for Ricardo Gómez: All his films
In reality, the first foray for the 29-year-old actor outside the sets of San Genaro and Sagrillas was in the short film Absurd Cinderella. It was directed by Óscar Aibar, with whom he would film seven years later The substitute, a thriller in which Gómez gave a radical change to the image we all had of the little Alcántara and became a policeman overwhelmed by life, with a three-day beard and who smoked like a carter. That same year, he also released Mia and Moi (2021), a love story, starring alongside Bruna Cusí that went unnoticed on the billboard, but in which Gómez leaves a good example of her talent in more intimate and independent shots.
Ricardo Gómez stars in ‘The Substitute’
We also saw him enjoy comedy where two fit, an ensemble film in which he shared credits with many of the faces of the moment. More disturbing and surprising was her role in The house among the cacti, a thriller full of script twists that was an interesting debut for its director, Carlota González-Adrio. Although, without a doubt, her great disconnection from the world Tell me how it happened It was with the acclaimed series The route. A proposal that won all the awards and completely separated him from Carlitos Alcántara, although the proposal also made him travel to the past 80s and his mythical Ruta del bacalaó.
Bruna Cusí and Ricardo Gómez GETTY
Going into cinema… as a director!
A year ago we learned that the well-known actor is also trying to get behind the cameras. It is expected that next year, Gómez will release what will be his debut feature film with A family. After directing the short films Thanks for coming y Dearco-directed with Miki Esparbé and getting into the production of films like Mia and Me o The last night of Sandra M, A family It will be his most ambitious step in the film industry.
Actor Ricardo Gómez in Season 14 of ‘Tell me how it happened’ GTRES
The story is about a child actor halfway between reality and fiction., a prisoner using his exit permit and a woman trapped at her son’s baptism. A day in the life of each of the three members of a family over whose heads the same question flies over: Who am I and who do I want to be? Three stories about identity, separated in time, but united by ties of blood and by a decision that will mark the lives of the three
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