The actor from Beirut, Hovik Keucherian, jumped onto the international scene in the world of acting thanks
to his character Bogotá in the huge Spanish hit series, ‘La casa de papel’. This Thursday he goes to the program El Hormiguero to promote ‘Reina Roja’, a series inspired by the novel of the same name and which is part of a successful trilogy.
This is, for now, the latest project of an actor who has not stopped
grow in your professional projectionl, with several successful productions, such as ‘Un amor’, the film directed by the acclaimed Isabel Coixet, which earned him the Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance.
The actor with Isabel Coixet and Laia Costa /
In ‘Red Queen’ he shares the lead role with actress Vicky Luengo, with whom he previously met in ‘Antiriots’. They both play characters that
they work as policevery far from the reality of the bank robber status that gave him fame.
Poetry and boxing, his two great passions
Upon arriving in Madrid from Lebanon, he began working in the family restaurant until he discovered his passion for kickboxing first and then for boxing, a sport in which he became crowned
Spanish heavyweight champion on two occasions.
His only defeat was against the Frenchman Thierry Guezouli, who
taught him more than his previous victories, as he stated in an interview for Esquire magazine. «I burst into tears in public, in front of about twelve thousand people. And I didn’t mind crying in front of so many people, because I collapsed.
But, he also had time to write poetry in his free time. Verses that made him discover
his passion for theater and the art of interpreting. This led him to monologues and television fictions such as ‘The Ministry of Time’ and he even got a Goya nomination for best new actor for ‘Alacrán in Love’.
The pressure of fame took him to the depths
The success he achieved in ‘La Casa de Papel’ catapulted him to the top, but it also had many negative effects on his life as he mentioned in his interview in El Hormiguero. «
I lost my passion, I was aimlessthen I stepped on stage doing monologues and I fell in love with the profession, I regained focus, but it has been a roller coaster of many years in which alcohol was the door to isolate yourself from people.
«Work helps you, but being 100% is not the same as
wish to come home to open the whiskey and go to bed at eleven o’clock mamao. My mother was the one who opened my eyes to get out of all that,” he told Pablo Motos. The actor has confessed something that can be seen with the naked eye: “Now I feel much better about myself.”
Before, he smoked three packs of tobacco a day, which he has managed to reduce to one, but which he will manage to stop, he stated. He has also managed to lose almost 30 kilos of weight,
thanks to the effort to improve which he demonstrated in his interview. «I started at 131.4 kilos, and I will be at about 100 kilos. “I have lost a lot.” With his personal life in order and a very promising future on screen, we look forward to seeing new projects come Hovik Keucherian’s way.