Leo Damario is a warm guy, with humor, someone who makes things easy for you. But at first sight he should be defined as a parameter of eccentricity. He might be on camera, he should!, but he chooses the role of director. We could see him around Callao with a group of Afghan hounds and talk about his work and a recent award for Victoria, avenging psychologista series that premiered on Amazon, yet picks a far more encouraging start: “I’m the only director with a six-pack.”
-What does it mean?
-Don’t know what a six-pack is?
I don’t even know how to spell it.
-It is when the abdominal muscle is six squares. It’s that I train and eat very healthy with many doctrines and put on 1500 abs a day.
A series with outstanding actors
Victoria, avenging psychologistcreated by this man from Mar del Plata, it premiered last year on Amazon Prime Video and received the Silver Condor Award as “best short series”. With 400,000 reproductions, according to the information we receive, “now there are two air channels that want to revive itsays Leo, dressed in a T-shirt and denim boots.
His was the only series “100% product” in the most difficult moment of the pandemic. There are eight 20-minute episodes and work Benjamín Vicuña, Favio Posca, Carlos Belloso, Rafael Spregelburd, Andrés Calamaro.soundtrack of Charlie Garcia and the role of Cecilia Peckaitisformer VJ’s mtv and partner of Damario in real life.
One of Leo’s favorite actors is Vicuña. They are actually friends.
“We talked a lot with Benja about nutrition and training. I also do a workout twice a week with honeycomb posca. I do not consume flour, sugar, dairy products or cereals. I did omad, which is just one food intake per day. It gives me a lot of energy to train and think about problems from another angle.”
“With Benja, we are both present separated parents and have children with two different administrations. I dedicated the award to Cecilia, my partner. When I met Benjamin it was, several years ago, for the project Sirenwhich I wrote with my daughter Amanda Ruby. A project that has stood the test of time and for now we have not been able to materialize, but which have become other jobs”.
“He told me that in our country they called him for a more commercial profile than the actor who knew how to develop in Chile. And is that Benja, in addition to one of our latest celebrities, is an actor. A reaction actor full of nuances who acts on set and has worked with great directors such as Pablo Larraín”.
To meditate. Train as required. Fast 23 hours to ask your brain to think from another perspective. Escape from the matrix and that his job “is to help free thought”.
the decade won
He speaks to us as if we were from his coffee table: “Today I have reached a good balance with my daughters’ mothers and all my exes. I realized that for the last decade I have only devoted myself to dating models. My decade has won. But my best mate is my eldest daughter, who went up with me to collect the prize. She is ten years old and lives with me while she grows up to be a young lady and is a potential singer who also helps me with her little sister ”.
He says that ‘Benja’ knows a lot about the medium, film making and acting profession. And that he listens and learns. And that she has had very generous gestures with him “both professionally and humanly”.
Both share the interests of “fatherhood, being single and living what they want”. Now they have projects in the pipeline that they can’t talk much about. In the award-winning series, Vicuña “shows a fragile interpretation and character”.
The series could be defined as a psychological thriller about an abuse victim who tries controversial coping therapy with offenders. They also participate, among others, Inés Estévez, Muriel Santa Ana, Flor Torrente, Emilia Attias, Federico D Elia, Turco Naim, Natalie Pérez and Delfina Cháves.
What Benjamin Vicuna says
With Vicuña they celebrate the holidays. The one who speaks now is the most popular Chilean. “We are friends, today we had lunch together for my birthday. We did Victory… a rebel series, with a critical point of view, a series with a powerful, new, original language. I think I have found the possibility to collaborate with this artist and right now we are developing a script together for a series that he will direct ”.
Theirs is a relationship that has to do with shared affinities and affections.
“In my career I try to move through different genres and contexts. Yes, yes, in general, I have the opportunity to work on more conventional, traditional, platform stuff, but I am always very attentive to listening and receiving independent projects who have a point of view and interpret me for that way of seeing films and television”.
The Silver Condor thing was a “serious” thing for Leo, “an award that I always saw as a child on television broadcasts. Receiving the support of reporters such as Juan Pablo Russo, who also votes in the golden globe It’s another beautiful recognition of this very personal career that I’m planning with determination, my greatest ally. My religion will always be art and rock”.
in its constant links with music -recorded clips known to Andrés Calamaro-, previewed a video for his friend and admired Loadturned into Black coffee with Dante Spinetta and Carlos Belloso. In that video he “peels” his promotion six pack with a very low percentage of body fat.
“I have always enjoyed cultivating myself in different arts and cultures. I recently went to see a play by Rafael Spregelburd, with whom I recently shot a commercial for Mexico, and I liked the line ‘you never bathe in the same river twice, because it’s not only you who changes but also the river’. For a man from Mar del Plata born and raised on the coast with very little school education, I did the seventh grade, it is much more than I could have expected.
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Source: Clarin
