Great expectation has generated the debut of the singer Juanes in the world of acting in the film by Colombian Andrés Baiz, ‘Pimpinero: blood and gasoline’, which this Thursday will be released in the country’s movie theaters and later in the programming of Prime Video.
Juanes He auditioned for two of the most important cast members in history.
He prepared the character of Don Carmelo, the villain of the movieand for Moisés, one of the three brothers who make up one of the key families in history.
Finally He became Moisés, the eldest brother of the Estrada family that for years has been dedicated to gasoline smuggling between Venezuela and Colombia, which ends up involved in a conflict between the mafias that dispute the routes of this smuggling, and other illicit businesses that begin to appear in the area in the following years.
“For me, Moses in the film is like the necessary balance for the story. He is the oldest of the three Estrada brothers, who is already exhausted from the years of being in that fight of gasoline smuggling, but being inside it, he balanced the relationship between the three brothers, always as the wisest, the most patient. and the most stoic of all,” commented Juanes, who assured that when he received the call from Andrés Baiz to participate in this film, he said yes, without knowing almost anything about the story and the characters.
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“I have always liked the work of Andrés Baiz and for a long time I had wanted to try acting, so this film seemed like a very cool opportunity to experience another side of art that was not from music and composition.
It was quite a challenge to find a large number of elements that I had to look for, scene after scene, using my imagination, memories, nostalgia and special experiences, and then starting to look for the character of Moses in me. To act, you have to end up in a supremely uncomfortable, but at the same time incredible place.”
He highlighted the possibility of being able to work alongside Andrés Baiz, the acting team and the production team that required 51 days of filming in different locations.e La Guajira, Cesar and a week of interiors in Bogotá to be able to carry it out.
Andrés Baiz didn’t want to show me anything, and then we experienced it at the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), where it was the world premiere.
“I saw the whole movie about three weeks ago and it was just incredible.” For 30 years, Juanes has been used to recording sets for the videos of his songs, but never in the production of a film that mostly takes place in the difficult conditions of the Guajira desert.
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“For me it was impressive to arrive at those beautiful, but difficult places to be able to record the scenes, between the desert and the ranchería, managing to integrate very well with the team of actors and production, getting to really get involved in the point of vallenato,” said Juanes, who at those parties ended up singing more than one classic vallenato.
A production that was carried out between strikes that were experienced in the country, the inclement weather, the trails through which the cars had to pass and many of them were buried. Even Juanes himself had to get off and push.
Without giving spoilers, Juanes chose the most difficult scene he had to perform during the recordings of ‘Pimpinero: blood and gasoline‘, when his character must deliver tragic news.
“When I saw the text I simply thought that I just had to go and break the news, with very little text, that’s why I saw it as easy, but then, Carolina Gomezwho was my teacher and guide throughout this acting process, made me see that it was the most difficult scene, because I hardly had to speak, I had to express everything with my eyes, my gaze. That’s why, before the scene, I had to put myself in that dark place, try to remember sad things in my life to reach that right moment.”
Carolina Gómez has been a friend of Juanes for years and when she found out about his upcoming debut, she offered to prepare him for the role and for the pace required in a shoot of this magnitude.
“The concentration must be maximum in each of the calls to record, because they were always asking you, talking about your role, where was your character yesterday? Where is he going now? How is Moises feeling emotionally? Where is he going now? “It was always keeping in mind the context of the character and for me that was vital.”
An acting experience that is the first, but surely will not be the last for Juanes, due to the enthusiasm he shows when talking about his entire long process of building the character and the work on filming.
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