![]() ![]() “One of my favorite Spanish writers - who was gay and died during the Spanish dictatorship - wrote a play called Bodas de Sangre. “What matters here is love,” Silvestre says. But while he was traveling the world, we had to settle for chatting and Skype.” ![]() When we met at the first table reading in San Francisco, that was where we began. “It was very important to us to spend time together in creating a foundation for our relationship. ![]() “We both understand we’re representing LGBT people,” says Herrera. You get to see both sides in his performances there’s a masculinity, but also some sweetness and softness.”Īs his onscreen boyfriend, Herrera describes Silvestre as “a generous actor who is also this volcano of energy, and that is very contagious.” As straight actors, both were concerned with creating a believable romantic bond between Lito and Hernando. “Pedro told me I should spend some time watching Cary Grant films, because he carries that in such a relaxed way. A few years later, he abandoned playing professional tennis after realizing “I just wasn’t good enough.” His family enouraged him to act, and by 2013, he was cast in Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited, where he first learned to combine his tough and tender traits.“The actors I admire the most accept both their masculine and feminine sides,” he says. Read Next | Sense8 Star Miguel Ángel Silvestre: Gay People Are My People What Matters Is Loveīefore he settled on an acting career, Silvestre was named “Mr. “One day we were shooting, and I felt like Lito wouldn’t do what the script was calling for so I asked her about it,” remembers Silvestre. But Lana was always making sure you also get to see comedy in the characters too.” It’s a concept akin to Kerry James Marshall’s ennobling portraits of black subjects or Peter Paul Rubens’ celebration of women’s curves: contradictions are part of what make the characters feel real. “In his movies, he celebrates his masculinity with every gesture, down to each drag of a cigarette. “They made it clear that we didn’t want to show a character tormented by his sexuality,” Silvestre says. As Lito, he faces losing both fame and fortune after being outed, but he never disavows his orientation. He is a straight Spaniard who playing a Mexican movie star whose onscreen machismo is his meal ticket, but who is also a closeted gay man in love with a college professor named Hernando, played by Alfonso Herrera. Silvestre has had to grapple with these apparent contradictions more than most. Through the magic of editing, a conversation can switch from one locale to another in a heartbeat. The series revolves around the lives of eight men and women (scattered across the globe) who are psychically and physically intertwined in a way that allows them to experience each other’s emotions, tap into one another’s talents, and team up to elude a mysterious agency obsessed with exterminating them. with many scenes bending time and space to take place on multiple continents. The show is shot around the world - including in India, Africa, Mexico, Iceland, England, Korea, Germany and the U.S. Their Cloud Atlas deconstructed the concept of screen narrative, telling many tenuously-related stories concurrently. Their Matrix series introduced audiences to a complex alternate world and visuals that set new standards in movie making. So I jumped.” Beyond BoundariesĪs filmmakers, Sense8 creators Lana and Lilly Wachowski are renowned for pushing boundaries. I wanted to respect the message of this story, and I knew they were going to do it in an honorable way. “They asked, ‘Do you have any problem kissing a man?’ I said no. ![]() “One of things they wanted to make sure of when they cast us was that we were willing to jump without question,” Silvestre says. On his first day shooting the Netflix series Sense8, Miguel Ángel Silvestre found himself naked - except for a little modesty pouch - in the arms of two similarly clad co-stars. But, he says, the real journey lies within. Miguel Ángel Silvestre and his Sense8 co-stars travel the world to create a fantasy about shared consciousness. ![]()
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