Antonio de la Torre remembers his best films with Fotogramas

who was going to tell Anthony of the Tower, when he worked as a sports journalist on Canal Sur, who would end up becoming the actor with the most nominations in the history of the Goya Awards, with no fewer than 14 nominations. And it is that the Sevillian had it clear from always: the vocation of him was the interpretation. For this reason, during his last professional stage as a journalist, he was constantly traveling to Madrid to train at Cristina Rota’s acting school. The result: a career with more than 125 titles, all of them essential, which we review today with him on the occasion of the premiere of ‘Between Life and Death’, his leap into international cinema.

His first opportunity came from series like ‘Full, please’ or ‘Thieves go to the office’. And in 1994 he began his career in the cinema with small participations, many of them were almost figurations with a phrase, in titles such as ‘The worst years of our lives’, ‘You will die in Chafarinas’, ‘The day of the beast’, ‘Hello , are you alone?’ or ‘More than love, frenzy’.

It was Santiago Segura who, in 1998, hired him to play Rodrigo in the first installment of the ‘Torrente’ saga. He had just launched the career of one of the most versatile performers in our country. Despite the fact that, as he himself admits, “I thought he was going to succeed only in comedy.” That also. Because off-road, no one beats him.

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo or the godfather

Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Iciar Bollaín, Rodrigo Sorogoyen… Antonio has placed himself under the orders of the most prestigious directors in our country. But, if there is one who has marked a before and after in his career, that has been Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with whom he has shot four films. The first, ‘Azuloscurocasinegro’, awarded him his first Goya for Best Supporting Actor. “I came from Seville with a personal problem that kept me absent”, he remembers with us. “And Daniel told me that everyone was talking about me. When I saw the movie, he gave me a shock… I saw myself in disguise.” Later they would repeat in ‘Gordos’ –for which he underwent a brutal physical transformation and for which he received his first Goya nomination for Best Leading Actor–, ‘Cousins’ and ‘La gran familia español’.

The list of great characters is endless and the selection on our part has been extremely complicated, although we have not been able to leave out titles such as ‘El Reino’, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Goya for Best Leading Actor and Fotogramas de Plata for Best Film Actor.

Join us on this unforgettable journey by the hand of one of the actors who is already the history of our cinema.