Although on this occasion Brown did not sing or present, he was willing to talk to the media about the seventh art and the projects he has in hand.
“I’m not going to sing again after the scare I went through. I had a lot of fun, but not this year. This year I came to celebrate the awards. They invited me, we are now like part of the family. And I came to celebrate everyone, the industry, my colleagues, what is happening with the general industry. I think it’s a great moment and it seems to me that the Platinos are doing it impeccably in every way, in the organization of the awards, in all the movement that happens during and after they happen. They do a good job of celebrating our cinema. And it seems to me that we are at a time when it is worth doing it,” said Michel Brown in an interview with DIARIO LAS AMÉRICAS.
Brown recalled that he took the stage of the 2023 edition of the awards to perform Bolivian lament. And although he earned applause from his colleagues in the audience, he felt anxious about the challenge.
“As an actor, standing on stage to sing in front of a thousand actors, who are very critical, was scary. The truth is, it’s a place I wasn’t used to, although I really enjoyed it afterwards. But the first 20 seconds were dramatic, my hands were sweating. I mean, I felt like I had anxiety. But I think it’s okay to get out of our comfort zone and try something different. And it was good like that,” he said.
For the actor, there is something that is changing in the industry. And the stories that spill over onto the big screen today reflect the identity of those who tell them better than before.
“I think it’s stopping (neutralizing the accent) and that it’s great. If there is something that is a reflection of our own identity, it is our accent, which we should neither hide nor lose. I was just talking today with Alberto Guerra, a Cuban actor, with whom I have been good friends for many years. And he just did a project where he had to speak like a Cuban and I told him it’s very strange when 20 years go by and they ask me now, suddenly, to speak like an Argentinian. And I realize that I worked for so many years trying to hide it so that the other (accent) came out well, that later there is a moment where it becomes a hybrid that you no longer even know how to speak,” he said about the battle that actors have faced. of different nationalities when trying to neutralize the accent, especially those who have developed their careers in Mexico.
“Yes, yes, of course, I sound Argentine. And I’m not trying to sound like anything else. But hey, I’m already like a hybrid. “It has been many years since I played an Argentine character,” she added.
However, one of his next projects will take him to film in his native country, although he did not offer more details about the character he will play in gaucho lands. But yes, his new one look He owes it to a recent role.
“I can’t talk much. Now there is this mania of not being able to tell what one is doing, which is something tremendous. But hey, I finished two series for ViX, I made a movie for Amazon, very interesting projects. I just finished another series for ViX, called The whole life. That’s why my mustache, it wasn’t for pleasure,” she said.
Argentine cinema
Her countryman, Cecilia Roth, Platinum of Honor 2024, called for help for the Argentine film industry by arguing that this year no films will be made in the country due to lack of financial resources. When asked about what the legendary actress said in her acceptance speech, Brown responded:
“I’m going to make a movie in Argentina. But yes, there are many things that are falling, because the economy does not allow it to be sustainable to film there. The fact that this market fluctuates and is variable all the time means that numbers cannot be made, and it is not known what the cost of a project will be. So, yes, obviously (Argentine cinema) is in a very difficult moment. I hope it fits in, not only art and cinema, but Argentina in general, because we have been in that search for many years.”
Likewise, he recalled that, despite the difficulties it faces, Argentine cinema has worldwide recognition and transmits truth.
“Argentine cinema seems to me to be one of the greatest cinemas in the world in history. It seems to me that it is always avant-garde cinema, that it has good stories to tell, that we know how to tell them and that there are great directors. There are great actors, producers and Argentine films are full of truth. I think that is the identity of Argentine cinema. And I hope what is happening doesn’t happen. I hope certain people don’t believe that art is not important. “I think Argentina has worldwide recognition precisely for its art and, in particular, for its cinema,” she assessed.
Brown revealed that he is excited about a new project in which he is making his debut as a screenwriter. It is a film inspired by one of his experiences.
“I am writing, developing a film for the first time, which is a project that makes me very happy. I think it’s one of the things that has excited me the most in a long time. It is a personal story that I will tell later, but it is a story that belongs completely to me. And that became an interesting, cathartic process. And it is like being plunged into the void in a place that I was not used to,” he said.
What is coming or not
The actor, who now lives in Mexico and will soon go to Madrid, has also ventured into a new stage in which he draws on his predilections to create beyond film and television.
“I am very happy and starting to work in a content production company, with a great friend with whom I worked at the History Channel, called Lucas Rojo. Lucas, I and another person are starting to work in this production company to develop entertainment content, not series, not movies. And that is being a very interesting process. I really like that part. I was working for a long time on a project about freestyle, about rap. I like motorcycles and I started working on a project that also had to do with travel. Then Lucas told me let’s do this together and start developing entertainment content.”
Brown, who plays Simón, the main character in the Netflix series Pálpiti, revealed that there will be no third season.
“It will not be. And I think that’s fine. When something goes well twice, screw it the third time, I don’t think so. I was just talking to Leonardo Padrón, the writer. And he is doing other projects that are incredible. It’s also good to meet different characters. I am grateful to have met Pálpito on the road, with Simón, but I love meeting the one with the mustache and I will love meeting other different ones.”
Although it was his role in Passion of Hawks the one who catapulted him to international fame, recognizes that the character that has challenged him the most was the one he played in the series about the life of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
“I think the one who challenged me the most was Pedro de Alvarado, in the Hernán Cortés series, because of his physicality, his voice, his Spanish accent, because it was a period series. And I think he was one of the most industrious. And he is also one of those most interesting characters when it comes to building them,” he said.
“And I think that at Passion of Hawks Maybe I owe him that he opened the doors to the world for me. But I think there are no debts here. Neither I owe him nor he owes me. I think they are things that one finds along the way and that the stars align. The character, the story, appeared at the right moment. So I am very grateful.”
