Though he and the producers deny it, his character could be a grotesque version of Maluma, a chunky “twin” line inspired by Juan Luis Londoño. Shouting “parcero” (friend in Colombia), its Charly Flow from the queen of flow (Netflix) sells catchy music, fights scandals, and presents itself as a selfish lust machine.
The actor in a good suit is Carlos Torres, the one who in 2018 rose to wild popularity by dint of shots, narco universe and reggaeton. After a casting, someone thought he might be the perfect reggaetonero despicable and he became the most compelling creature of Colombian soap operas. Now all it does is block job postings.
Arrogant, bizarre, arrogant, narcissistic, baroque. Charly is this and much more. Unbearably navel. Carlos, on the other hand, functions as the opposite of him. He timidly awaits the interview in a hotel in Madrid, without decorations, nor exaggerated movements, nor the typical gold chains.
“Carlitos the Humble” He grew up listening to the other Carlos, Vives. She was born on September 20, 1988 in Barranquilla, exactly when her compatriot Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (Shakira) made her public debut in a television series on the Telecaribe network.
He is 34 years old, has more than 20 television products on his resume and five million followers on Instagram. He lives between Madrid and Bogota and distributes his cries of goals between Real Madrid and Junior de Barranquilla.
Son of architects, “from a conservative family”, it was immediately clear to him that he would escape that corporation that fought against gravity. “They dreamed that I was the family lawyer, he was very good at defending me and arguing“, she laughs dressed as Hugo Boss hours before handing over a statuette at the Platinum Awards.
The way to tell stories about the nice guy that happened able to kill and hide corpses He is crossed by a vocation that awoke at school and which also led him to film Panamanian cinema. Today he struggles to be more Caribbean than Europe.
Story of an escape
Before becoming that (imaginary) media monster of urban music, Carlos Andrés grew up between vallenatos and Botero’s works, and based on sancocho (soup), coastal cheeses; arepas, bean fritters, lemon aguapanela and other typical delicacies.
restless teenager, admirer of Sean Penn; Robert de Niro and Al Pacino, acting was something foreign to that stage in that house where he was nicknamed “Carlucho” and where there was constant talk of developments, verticality, square meters …
It all started as an escape. “A way to escape from lessons: the theater teacher would come and say: “Those who are reciting, stand up. You could teach physics, chemistry and they’d take you out of class. This started out as a little escape game”he sums up, scratching his padlocked beard.
“All my friends went about their normal lives, but I fell in love, paid attention to the master, thought ‘Wow, how good it is to be here, to create a character, to have fun.‘. And I risked to stay there, to live other lives”.
At 17 he made the decision to settle down alone in Bogotá and he was not wrong. There was no shortage of acting work, albeit with minimal impact and moderate cachet at first. He always put his mother’s advice into practice: “Be quick to listen and slow to respond”.
“I studied theater in Colombia and I perfected my diction, vocalization, because I come from the coast, where people speak a little faster, a little more Caribbean and it was one of the first things that criticized me a lot. They pigeonholed me, like I can only do coastal characters”.
In 2006, long and blonder hair, it was the turn of the Colombian version of flowery, in a turnout as a brother of the main family, Franco Fritzenwalden. Continuously, in 2010 he started appearing in soap operas, such as a dream called salsa. It was also the beautiful surgeon Juan José Cardona in trainee Emergency roombut the boom occurred with the queen of flowwhich had two seasons and a social debate: in the second part, victim and perpetrator return to bet on the couple after various aberrations of Charly Flow’s character.
The universe of reggaeton as kidney of drug trafficking and its exotic beings has attracted millions of viewers, first Caracol Televisión, then in streaming. Torres was lucky to play a complex role with different shades, the nephew of a drug trafficker who deceives a teenage composer to enter the world of music, puts drugs in her suitcase and takes possession of her lyrics. The girl suffers 17 years in prison, he is successful, but his revenge (Carolina Ramírez) will slowly destroy the reggaeton player.
-Doesn’t it seem like an extreme twist to the script that “happily ever after” has been adapted to the case of a murderer and a victim?
I admit it was very controversial. Gender-based violence and a character who gets forgiveness from the victim. I think the first thing we need to be clear about is that this is fiction, we are trying to entertain and nothing else. Yes, the protagonist was shocked, ‘How am I going to forgive this guy who killed my family?’ he said. For me as an actor it was all gain: a twist, a challenge, my character becomes fragile, I went from being hated to having to try to make everyone love me. I understood in this profession that as I grow up everything becomes It becomes more difficult instead of getting easier.
-In what sense?
-I thought that at some point I would have everything clearer and every day I realize that it is less clear. i doubt more. Know? Anyone can be famous. In my case, I didn’t enter this medium looking for fame, rather looking for some recognition. And it’s not easy not to deviate from one’s path, from one’s principles, to take risks, to leave one’s comfort zone, to go to another country. I think I’m pretty good.
Model of Tommy Hilfiger, collector of watches, this amateur midfielder engaged to the Colombian entrepreneur Joanna Castro -dedicated to the field of healthy food- has decided to invest in his country in the gastronomic field. Together with various partners He opened a hamburger restaurant five years agoAnna, in the area of La Candelaria, in Bogotá.
These days he shares the screen with the Argentine Guillermo Pfening, with whom he participates in welcome to eden 2, one of the most watched productions on Netflix. His popularity in Barcelona meant that local police had to intervene as he walked through a five-star hotel to calm down fans locked in the door as guests cheered on their screams.
The one that shone dancing with the Stars in Colombia and in 2017 was chosen among the “most beautiful” of the magazine TV y Novelas de Colombia does not care about stereotypes or rankings in tyrants of the beauty ranking. He’s used to a certain old-fashioned look about his picture or being on the cover of the “finest potatoes”.
“Argentina is Darín! I dream of working with Ricardo!”, gives the protocol, as if seeking complicity for the end. While awaiting the fulfillment of that desire, he does not forget the magic formula that Doña Carmen, his “heroine and mother” taught him: “Visualize what you want and ask the angels“.
Source: Clarin
