Alejandro Edda: Un payaso entre la risa y el drama en "Clown & Out"

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Por Gerardo Prat  En su nueva película Clown & Out, Alejandro Edda nos sumerge en un viaje emocional profundo, explorando las complejidades de la comedia y la tragedia de una manera arriesgada y ambivalente. Esta cinta independiente desafía las convenciones del género, pudiendo ser vista tanto como un drama sombrío con destellos de humor, como una comedia oscura que roza el límite de lo trágico.  Edda brilla con una actuación poderosa e introspectiva, asumiendo un rol que exige gran sensibilidad y precisión actoral. Su interpretación del payaso comediante revela la delgada línea que separa la risa del llanto, convirtiendo su personaje en un reflejo de las tensiones humanas más profundas. Este papel, con su complejidad emocional, pone a prueba la capacidad de cualquier actor, y Edda lo maneja con maestría.  Desde su llegada definitiva a Hollywood desde México, Edda ha demostrado ser un intérprete versátil y comprometido. Ha transitado desde personajes reales, como su aclamado papel de El Chapo en la serie Narcos, hasta el ambiguo y multifacético payaso de Clown & Out. Su carrera ha sido una evolución constante, y en esta nueva película, confirma su capacidad para navegar entre géneros y emociones con fluidez.  En una conversación exclusiva, hablamos con Alejandro sobre su arte, su identidad y su visión para el futuro.   Con Clown & Out, Alejandro Edda reafirma su lugar en la industria cinematográfica, mientras continúa su evolución como uno de los actores más intrigantes de su generación.

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00:00Alejandro Eda, Clown and Out, I saw it all, I loved it,

00:07but I imagine when you received the script with that title, it was like, let's see,

00:13what attracted you the most about that project?

00:16That title did not exist, Clown and Out came to Sergio or Rafael, one of the producers,

00:26after, the truth is, right now I don't remember exactly what the original name of the script was,

00:35but regardless of the title, yes, it attracted me a lot the story, it attracted me a lot the character,

00:41and it was something that I had not really worked on a feature film or have this

00:47character in which he had, perhaps, hints of comedy, hints of drama,

00:58and also very down-to-earth, I liked that, and that was done, I think it gave me three quarters of the pandemic,

01:09I was living in Key Biscayne with my family, we went there when everything here in Los Angeles collapsed and closed,

01:16we all went to Florida and there, as in the middle, there was no COVID,

01:21so my children were going to school and everything was open, and it was just when Sergio called me,

01:28I just received a script, I thought about the main character, and when I read it, I also had a lot of desire to act,

01:36also to do what I like to do, and I said, come on, let's do it, and go to Los Angeles, and well, the rest is history.

01:44And you just mentioned that the film has, not only because of the clown himself,

01:50but it has that dark part, that part of comedy, that ambivalence,

01:56which is also inside the clown, how did you navigate that in your character?

02:05I think that at first my first approach was about stand-up comedy,

02:13for me, Paco's thing was more, if his dream was to be a stand-up comedian, that's where I started,

02:21and I've never done that exercise, I've never prepared for that, so I had to go to different comedy clubs,

02:28here in Los Angeles, see a lot of stand-up, and there was a stand-up, but in particular that Sergio

02:37and Esquetino, Francisco, who is one of the writers, had based themselves on the fact that it is a Latin stand-up comedy,

02:45so I started to see all his routines, and from there I started to build Paco,

02:50the clown thing, I think that as the script happens, it was a bit of an accident,

02:55where Paco, to solve his economic expenses, worked as a clown in children's parties,

03:02so from there he starts with his father, who was also a clown in Mexico, in Tepito,

03:07so more than anything, my goal was first to be a stand-up comedian, and then to help him with this clown routine,

03:14and well, with the influence of Cantinflas, of Tintan, of Mexican comedians, of the time of Ortega,

03:20and well, a lot of improvisation, a lot of what is skipped, there are many themes that also touch the film,

03:29that can be good or it can be bad, it is a two-edged sword, to also talk about different narratives,

03:35or different ramifications in question to the story, so maybe someone connects with the story of the father and the son,

03:44someone connects with the story of love, between Paco and Betty, or someone with their personal story,

03:51of the kid who, maybe that was the one I connected the most, in a way, the kid who comes here to start from the bottom,

03:59but with a dream, and the dream, in a certain way, is in the entertainment area, which is Los Angeles, the Mecca,

04:06and he has this great dream from where he started in a small stage, to reach a sold-out solo show, right?

04:16That, well, I relate in a certain way, maybe many Latinos also have this American dream,

04:24but it is in all nationalities, even the locals, I imagine they also want to make their American dream.

04:30And well, now you are living here in Los Angeles, right? We are just talking about these things that the actor has,

04:38that he does a project and after three years he launches it, and you are already doing another thing, or you have done three more things.

04:46Well, tell me a little bit about your life now, you are in Los Angeles, what are you working on?

04:51Yes, well, I have lived here for many years, I arrived here when I was 23 years old, I turned 40 this year,

05:00so it's been 17, I think, 16, 17 years in Los Angeles, fortunately for work I have had to leave Los Angeles

05:09and go to live in other countries, like Mexico, like Colombia, well, because of COVID we went to live in Florida,

05:16so during those 17 years we have also been out of LA, and that has also nourished me a lot,

05:22because it is sometimes nice to go out and then come back with more desire.

05:25And fortunately this 2024, from March, I have not stopped traveling, I have not stopped working,

05:35and projects have fallen on me like never before, auditions have fallen on me, or also direct offers,

05:43and I think that is also nice when you no longer have to train or win the characters,

05:47but a director out there looks at you and wants to invite you to his project,

05:51and I love that, because I embrace that invitation a lot, like the one that was just with Sergio here in Clown and Out, thank you.

05:59Alejandro, to finish, of all the beautiful messages that there are, some, and so deep, of Clown and Out,

06:07which is the one that stays with you forever, the one that has the most to do with you?

06:13I really like the message of perseverance, I really like the message of family,

06:19and in the end, the message of love too, sometimes you never know where those relationships are going to take you,

06:30those people you know, in question of love, and I feel that Paco does that in his life,

06:37he does things with love, and from there perhaps a happy ending unfolds.

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