2023-11-10 08:43:42
Hovik Keuchkerian is not normal. It is clear that was born to act, because his is one of those presences that attracts all eyes as soon as he appears on a screen, and despite this He didn’t start doing it until he was 37 years old.; Until then he had spent most of his time in a ring, and had waited tables at his father’s restaurant, and been part of the security team at El Canto del Loco.
Right now he is one of those actors that everyone in Spanish cinema wants to work with, and yet he gives the impression of remaining oblivious to the ‘hype’ and not letting himself be fooled, of going his own way and following his own rules. And he is, almost certainly, the only one Spanish heavyweight champion -he has been twice- who has published books of poetry, and the only one who has won the Concha de Planta at the San Sebastián Festival; she provided it to him impeccable work in ‘Un amor’, new film by Isabel Coixet and literary adaptation of the novel of the same name that turned Sara Mesa into a literary phenomenon. Without a doubt, it is the most important acting award to date in a personal record that began to take shape thanks to all the recognition that Salvador Osorio, her character in the acclaimed series, gave her. ‘Anti-disturbances’.
He is 50 years old, and has been living in Madrid for 47 years. With only 3 she had to leaving his native Beirut with his parents – he, Armenian; she, Navarrese – because of the Lebanese Civil War. The sport seduced him since he was a child, and he dedicated himself to basketball with some seriousness until an ankle injury forced him to quit. At 22 he opened a gym in the neighborhood of Vegetable, and remained in charge of it for two decades; Meanwhile he was a kickboxing champion, and later became a professional boxer. When he hung up his gloves in 2005, he had a personal record of 15 wins by KO and one defeat. That same year his collection of poems ‘Letters from El Palmar’ was published; He would later publish the prose essay ‘Lokura’ (2008), the collection of autobiographical short stories ‘Diarios y desvaríos’ (2012) and a book-disc of poems titled ‘Resiliente’ (2014), and produced by Yuri Méndez.
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Some time passed from the time he got out of the ring until he got on stage. After obtaining a good reception with a brief comic intervention that he made during a performance by the magician Jorge Blass, a friend of his, in 2010 he decided to record for the Paramount Comedy channel. the monologue ‘Cocretas’, whose success gave him a place shortly after on Madrid’s Gran Vía in front of the show ‘A beggar with cotton shoes’. Thanks to him, that same year she got a role in the series ‘Hispania, the legend’ -thanks to him and chance: one of the scriptwriters of that ‘peplum’ was a client of his gym-, and from there his magnetism in front of the camera did the rest.
After obtaining a Goya nomination for his role in the boxing drama ‘Alacrán amor’ (2013), in 2016 he not only appeared in the thriller ‘Toro’ alongside Luis Tosar and Mario Casas but also participated in two international productions: the series ‘The Infiltrator’, starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, and the film adaptation of the video game ‘Assassin’s Creed’with a cast led by Michael Fassbender and Mario Cotillard.
Neither that nor his work under Terry Gilliam in ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ (2018), however, prepared him for the surge of worldwide fame that he obtained starting in 2019 after joining the cast of ‘La casa de papel’. Perhaps because of this extraordinary exposure and perhaps not, and as he himself has confessed, during the three seasons he spent on board the series Keuchkerian lost control of his consumption of alcohol, tobacco and junk food; He claims that he came to hate the profession. In 2021 he decided to wipe the slate clean: he put an end to the excesses, ended the relationship with his representative, and took one sabatic year.
2024 promises to be another crucial year in his career. Throughout it she will star in the first season of ‘Red Queen’, adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Juan Gómez Jurado, and the miniseries ‘Assault on the Central Bank’, directed by Daniel Calparsoro. He will also premiere the science-fiction intrigue ‘The Hole 2’, a sequel to one of the most unexpected hits in the entire history of Netflix, for which filming reached the 153 kilos of weight.
His character in ‘Un amor’, which is now hitting the billboard, It doesn’t look so bovine but almost. And it makes sense: El Alemán, as he is nicknamed, is something similar to a wounded beast. However, one looks into the eyes of the actor who plays him and forgets his physical rotundity and his occasional boar grunts; What is seen through them is a child, fragile and naive. Hovik Keuchkerian is not normal.
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