SLP, Mexico.- Much interest has aroused the character that Diego Gensen assumed in the Cuban soap opera Be reborn. Son of Aitana and José Manuel, little Dariel is torn between missing his mother, who had to move away from the home where she was mistreated, and facing his father.
But the fictional Dariel would not be possible without the audacity of Diego who, at his young age (nine years old), took on the difficult task of acting.
Interviewed this Sunday by the media Cuba TodayGensen shared with his audience some anecdotes about his short life and his acting experience. From that dialogue we leave you some curiosities about the very young but talented budding actor.
He has been acting since he was three years old
The nine-year-old started acting when he was three, when he joined the Kikirito project.
“I saw my sister and a friend of hers act as clowns, and then I wanted to be a clown too. Between my mom and her, they started writing scripts and searching the internet and things like that to be clowns for me, my sister, and my little friend. And then, when the time came to do the show, I was very nervous and then I started laughing, and my sister and her friend started to save the show,” he said.
At four years old, in the same project, he lost his fear, he said. He was selected for short films and began training as an actor from there.
He came to ‘Renacer’ through a casting
The road to Be reborn It began with Gensen’s mother’s search for castings for the little one. The day he took the test, he had to act out a scene in which Dariel’s mother was gone, and he didn’t want to eat. Then the grandmother arrives and questions him about it.
They gave him the role two weeks after that test. “I was playing at home and my mom called me and told me I had the role.”
For the scenes he read the dialogues from the script with his mother. “I learned them by heart and stuff.”
After the novel he played another role in a short
After filming Be rebornGensen enlisted in another acting project under the direction of Alejandro González.
In the teleplay “Five Tales at a Shot”, he worked with his sister, who was among the actors in the audiovisual.
His time in the novel alternated between acting and classes
School and acting went hand in hand for little Diego. During the recordings of scenes where he was not acting, he would take the notebook and begin to copy down the day’s lessons.
“The classes were sent to us on WhatsApp and then we copied them. We had already spoken with the school director, we had said, ‘well, the absences were justified, eh?'” he and the mother commented to Cuba Today.
“We tried to make him always pay attention to everything they gave in class, the homework done. It was very hard because I had to manage filming and also school. There the commitment is great. But everything turned out well,” Gensen’s mother confessed.
Diego and Dariel do not look alike
Questioned about the coincidences that there could be between his character in Be reborn and the flesh and blood Diego, the little one confessed that the characters did not match.
“We are almost nothing alike,” the boy said, adding that the novel character’s relationship with his family has nothing to do with his life experience.
“Because his parents separated and mine didn’t. And then it was a little difficult to have played the character of Dariel because I didn’t know that. “I didn’t know that my parents were separated,” he said.
There were painful scenes
The crying scenes were particularly difficult for Diego Gensen. The testimonies of the boy and his mother suggest that these recordings involved excessive effort.
To achieve crying scenes, the little boy said, he thought of a person who loved “a lot, a lot, a lot.”
Although he managed to cry and express painthere were scenes that asked her to repeat after she had cried.
“He told me his chest hurt. Because they are strong scenes,” the mother confessed in the interview while acknowledging that the very young actor achieved all the scenes they asked of him.
He is a naughty boy…
In the Kikirito project, an audiovisual project for children, he starred in a prank on one occasion.
During a short, Diego played a boy who had a sister who brought candy from his school. Without her noticing, the character went down the stairs, opened the bag and grabbed the candy.
On one occasion, when they were preparing the cameras for filming, with no light to illuminate him at the time, and being hungry, Diego opened a package of cookies and began to eat. “And then that’s when we had to go out and look for more candy, it was a problem,” he said.
His mother encourages and supports him in everything
His mother has been his breadwinner and supports him in his artistic career. She works at an elementary school.
Although she worked as a computer teacher for many years, she is now an art instructor at the elementary school where Diego studies. “I am the one who does the school activities and I help to get them done.”
As shared with Cuba TodayDiego helps her too. He accompanies her and helps direct the activities she organizes on campus.
“He says he wants to join the ENA and I am going to support him in everything. If it has to be taken to the workshop, I’ll take that one,” said the mother.
