kuno becker to act with philosophy
The young Mexican actor has the hands full of projects and the head full of ideas
The young Mexican artists are fashionable in both sides of the border. Kuno Becker, another good looking member of the new wave of Mexican actors, is settling down firmly like one of the most promising of his generation.
Initially, Kuno did not think that the seventh art would be his vocation. He began to study classic music in Mexico at the age of 6 years old. With the violin he had it made as a talented musician with a brilliant future.
But when he turned 17, after more than one decade of intensive studies that took him from the National School of Music in Mexico City to the Mozarteum academy in Salzburgo, Austria, he made a decision that would changehis life dramatically: to put to a side the violin to submerge himself deeply in the performance arts.
"Although at some point in my life I thought that music was not connected with performing, and suddenly it is connected. Its to express emotions, and the only thing that changes is the instrument '', Kuno said in an interview in Miami Beach, during a recess of the filming of his new independent film, that is rumored to be called Beautiful Island (Isla Bella). "Now it is my body, my face, my attitude, my feelings".
Kuno also has a starring role in the cast of Imagining Argentina , a thriller with Spanish actor Antonio Banderas and the British Emma Thompson, under the direction of Christopher Hampton, winner of the Oscar of his script of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). A coproduction between the United States, Great Britain and Spain, Imagining Argentina will arrive in theaters this autumn.
However, to work in his first film in English with two of the most famous actors of the international cinema, was not something that Kuno imagined that could happen so quickly in his career. "It just happened", Kuno says.
Kuno obtained his third starring role in the hollywood film "The Nomad", in which he'll be acting next to actor Jason Scott Lee.
In the middle of the decade of 1990, Kuno graduated from the Center of Artistic Eduacation (CEA) of Televisa, where he studied performance arts for three years. In his second year he began to work in Mexican soap operas. His first soap opera was "For all the life" (1996) with Ofelia Medina. Later he worked in 13 more, among them "Small Town, great hell" (1997), Camila (1998), Soñadoras Dreamers(1998), Deceived Women (1999), First love 1000 miles an hour (2001) standing out like one of the best young actors in his country. His jump from the small screen to the big screen perhaps was inevitable. Hollywood, his destiny.
"I never said now I am going to work in the United States in Hollywood '', assures Kuno. "I began working in the television, and happened what never I thought that was going to happen: it has been going well for me. Audiences accepted me. Better than I thought".
His first film was the Mexican production "The daughter of the cannibal" (2003), based on the novel by Rosa Montero of the same name. The film opened July 25th in the United States under the new title "Lucia, Lucia".
" I was looking for better roles", adds Kuno on its decision to work in the film.
Although he says that he adores television, he added that he got bored interpreting the same roles over and over. One of the aspects of the performance arts that attracts him more is to be able to change from the inside and not only of appearance.
"the roles that caught my attention are different from me", emphasizes. "Those don't really catch my attention, are the ones that amuse me, there are sort of like me. I Like to change. That's the fun part of acting".
Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz was born in Mexico City, on January 14 of 1978. Single, he resides in Los Angeles, where he is represented by Creative Artists Agency, one of the great agencies of talent in the cinematographic industry.
For Kuno the most important thing about his work is: to worry about the quality of its work. Period.
"That is what it is going to make you work more, less, or not work at all. That is what you can control'', Kuno said. "It's What you can change, which you can fix, which you can do good or bad its your work".
