A second. Only one of the 31 million seconds of that 1993 that Cris Morena took to realize that the blonde who was accompanying a casting was what the staff of play with me necessary. Michel Brown was then Misael Browarnik Beigueleyes like celestial planets, and an ingenuity that didn’t allow him to imagine the first step for a career in Colombia, Mexico and Spain.
Still remember that breaking point. He was sitting in the corridor of the old Telefe in San Cristóbal and the fairy Cris came up and advised him to imitate his friend and take the test in front of the camera. This is how he became a pre-network influencer who every afternoon, together with Luciano Castro and a dozen other teenagers, joked with tomato sauce, flew in a harness or played video clip kid in front of an angry school grandstand.
Now Don Brown is the king of neutral Spanish. You can free yourself from the musicality of Buenos Aires and put it back if there are Argentine journalists nearby. He first turned on the Bogotá mode and then performed incorporating Mexican words like “órale” and “güey”, with no trace of Argentine identity.
“Che, tell me I want to work in Argentina!”, proposes face to face in Madrid, in a break of the Platinum Awards for Ibero-American cinema. “I go back there almost every year for the holidays. I’ve been thinking about going back and doing something great for a long time, in fact there have been attempts to 100 days to fall in lovee, but the laburos overlapped. I was also about to participate the first of uss, the streak with Benjamín Vicuña, but the times played against”.
unknown place of that Honda Shadow 600 motorcycle he sold to catch a flight to Mexico and hope the rest was a swarm of fate. A crisis was foreseen for him, “the Argentine corralito was near” and he traveled with more innocence than certainty. Far from being greeted with a red carpet, He had to make a living as a bartender, waiter and dishwasher until, after many rings at the production houses, someone opened the door for him.
“I suppose this traveling spirit was passed on to me from my father, who was dedicated to the textile industry. He had a factory and when I was a child, he traveled for at least 20 days every winter to look for goods,” he said. He explains.
Born in Paterno, 46 years old, pupil of master Raúl Serrano, nephew of Polish Jews, as this beauty now considered “hegemonic” placed him in different products, a certain annoyance grew in him, the need to “be more than a pair of pretty eyes”. He did it after working for Telemundo, Caracol, Televisa and TV Azteca networks.
Just as there is a Michel that is adaptable to the accent that is requested, there is one that is elastic to the format for which it is hired. If they expect me to stop soap opera crying and become a conductor, here he is with his versatility and his smile. He proved it in programs like Firefighting challenge Latin Americathe History Channel’s blacksmith reality show in which he exercised his frown: Participants dazzle in the art of recreating historic weapons like Viking axes or samurai swords.
Former little onesson of Silvia and Carlos, older brother of Lorena and Nicolás, He has been married to Colombian actress Margarita Muñoz for ten years -your partner in the organ trafficking fiction that is the streaming boom, Intuition-. The romance began when she was 20 and he was 31. They stopped seeing each other, but love blossomed later when a mutual friend found out they were both single and forged the “bond”.
“Margarita was always stuck in my head, and I went looking for her on a recording set. I said, ‘What’s up?’ We gave each other a chance and after a month and a half we were living together. At the age of two there was marriage“, he says before adding the Caribbean touch. “We are a beautiful couple.”
Hundreds of fans can’t ignore that Michel with the cowboy hat and Texan boots The Passion of the Hawks, almost a meme today. In the soap opera about three brothers who pretend to be farm workers to infiltrate the life of the Elizondo family and avenge their sister’s death, she played Franco Reyes. Latin fiction brought him as a figure to Spain. Almost a decade ago he was the host of the dating show I’m for you of the antenna 3.
Then came global jobs like Hernan (on Hernán Cortés, by Amazon) and the protagonists of other “tank” dramas by Amazon (Falcon AND Parot). “I’m having a unique moment. Suddenly I have breakfast with what Intuition It tops the most watched series on Netflix. Suddenly they see me in Indonesia, or they text me transplant or abduction victims linking to the plot. More than talking about organ trafficking, the story is about what happens in a person’s body when they are in a foreign organ.”
It’s hard to imagine that this 1.77 tall gentleman in a suit and tie could once again be part of a silver set. “I’m still emotionally attached to Buenos Aires, even though it’s been 23 years since I left. Argentina, 1985, for example, I devoured it. That film touched me closely, it slapped me,” she confesses.
Lover of the road, when immigrant nostalgia persecutes him, he appeals to a “therapy”: “I get on a motorbike and that is the best movement therapy I can resort to”. On two wheels he made a journey of 20 days and 2,600 kilometers across India. The result was a streaming documentary, India intimate and extreme, a facet of the potential producer that makes him think about life after the camera.
“Everything happened very quickly. And I owe a lot of this to Cris. From a stay outside Argentina that I thought would last six months, to this madness. Now I think it’s time to go back. I want revenge.”
Source: Clarin
