Jorge Suquet: "Better to stay over the years than to be a clinician actor who gets squeezed and stops calling"

The actor Jorge Suquet is having a good year: he has participated in the Netflix success

and on March 17 he will be seen in

a series that Amazon Prime Video premieres this month, and also, already in cinemas , in

by Mar Targarona.

He has been able to return to the theater, in some dramatized readings of

in the Naves del Español (Madrid).

Projects all of an enviable variety.

And at the same time, the actor Jorge Suquet, who started acting almost two decades ago, has already had another

in the past.

She knows that they are that, one year, and that another year comes later that does not bring anything guaranteed.

“Sometimes it all comes together in a very strange way.

You make noise, because the issue of when the things you do end up coming out is whimsical, but then the truth is that you don't know when the next thing is going to come ”, he reflects today over tea.

“I have now been without work since July [of 2022].

And keep in mind that I have done a lot of secondary character, which does not take as long a bulk of time as a protagonist.

In other words, it's a good thing that there are several projects, because if not, you can't eat”.

Jorge Suquet poses exclusively for ICON with A Better Mistake jersey for WOW Concept and Thomas Sabo ring.ÁNGELA SUÁREZ

Streaks are something natural to the acting profession.

Suquet (Madrid, 42 years old) has had some impressions: when he spliced ​​the generalist success

(2011) with the critical bombshell of

(2012) and from there he ended up filming

(2014) with Ridley Scott.

Or when the little film he shot with Isabel Coixet,

(2017), swept the Goyas the same year that he premiered a new series, called

which was then expected to find a certain audience on Netflix.

Between one streak and another, the normal thing is nothing.

Even for that meager 8% of actors who, as Antonio de la Torre pointed out in his speech at the Goya Awards, can make a living from their profession.

Suquet, who by all accounts has the career and life of a successful performer, is also a true professional in that

trade of the actor, that of managing these random time lapses.

The unique thing about him is that he is willing to talk about it.

"It's healthy," he shrugs.

“I have read interviews even with Judi Dench where she said that she believed that they would not call her again.

And it's Judi Dench, I can't believe it!

You play with something so personal and, at the same time, you can't take it personally.

There are so many factors that go into whether or not you may have such a job.

The theme of popularity, for example, influences: there are seasons that you have more and others that you have less.

It's also realizing that not everyone can like you.

Anyway.

In these Goyas I have spoken with many people who have told me: 'No, no, I am without work at home'.

Jorge Suquet poses exclusively for ICON with a Missoni sweatshirt for WOW Concept and Hallucination pants.

The shoes are Gucci.ÁNGELA SUÁREZ

Suquet usually uses almost the entire body when responding.

They are small monologues, with an almost musical cadence, in which he raises his eyebrows, moves his hands, winks, smiles, and punctuates with his shoulders: if Jeff Goldblum, an actor known for the rhythmicity of any sentence in any script, were Spanish, he would have that demeanor (by height, 1.91 meters, the man from Madrid is not far from Pittsburgh, by the way).

When he stops talking, that expressiveness becomes pure concentration.

Due to this ability to jump from seriousness to seduction and vice versa, Suquet has been seen in several roles as a villain or, at least, someone who hides his feelings.

“I have the opportunity to make characters that a

They may seem like the bad guy, because of this thing of mine”, he points out.

“I have always been interested in seeing why this person is like that, not accepting that it is just because.

What's behind that?"

In

, he puts himself in the shoes of Romano, a filmmaker with the power —when he wants to use it— to elevate whoever works with him.

“I have taken it elsewhere, so that it causes some sympathy.

See that under all that apparent frivolity there is a lot of work, a lot of money at stake.

Romano is a guy who cares about his work.

I find it interesting that, within this luminous series, this darker side of the audiovisual industry is told.

In all professions with an artistic or vocational touch, you are always looking askance at how he is doing to others ”.

Among the traps that he has learned to avoid is that, measuring himself based on the success of others: "You can make the theory in your head, that the emotional later... If you have to hit a ball in the potato, you will job".

Or the fear that insecurity begets more insecurity.

“It is that it is two plus two.

The more relaxed you are, the better the job turns out and the better the

The more you are betting everything on one card because you are desperate or because you are spending your savings, the more tense you are going to be”.

Jorge Suquet poses exclusively for ICON with a Prada jacket, sweater and ankle boots and A Better Mistake pants for WOW Concept.

The ring is by Thomas Sabo.

Or the big question of fallow periods: an actor who doesn't act, what does he do?

“I try to write, do exercises, yoga, see exhibitions… Enrich my little heart and my creativity in some way.

If I can, I take acting courses, or seminars [he tenderly highlights those of his teacher, Juan Carlos Corazza, to whom he returns frequently]… Of course, in the end all this is constantly spending money and savings go down.

I'm also going to Asturias, my favorite place in the world, to breathe some air and cow shit, eat well and say: 'Look how comfortable I am doing nothing.'

And what should not be done?

“Get excessively drunk”, he alerts him, and underlines: “Excessively.

Immerse yourself in social networks excessively.

Feel sorry for yourself.

This time is also time to be, to keep your machinery oiled.

This sounds very nice and it is not always easy.

We all fall a bit into self-destruction: it is also lawful”.

Jorge Suquet poses exclusively for ICON with a Missoni jersey for WOW Concept. ÁNGELA SUÁREZ

So much sincerity is not, if it must be said, synonymous with being fed up with the trade.

It usually occurs when one reaches 40 a little better than at 30 and with a healthy dose of deconstruction (“a

in the oven”, he calls it).

The artistic side of the profession is still there and, in fact, Suquet remembers that the works that have satisfied him the most are quite recent.

Filming

with Coixet, for example, where he, trained in New York, learned to put on an impeccable British accent that he still defends today: “It seemed like speaking Swahili to me, but now, look, people think I have a British father or mother,” he says.

That accent led him, in part, to

(2021), the film/television series by Enrique Urbizu, another of his favorite experiences: "The first day I called my agent crying with emotion," he says.

Jorge Suquet poses exclusively for ICON with a Missoni jersey for WOW Concept. ÁNGELA SUÁREZ

Here, Suquet leans back and summarizes his philosophy: “I don't know if it's almost better... Well, yes, I do know: It's better to maintain yourself over time and gain access to more and more interesting characters.

Better that than what you see so much, the clinical actor or actress, who suddenly is squeezed out of them in three or four years and then no one calls them.

This thing is generated that seems that you have to kill it and if not... I have explained it to my family many times.

The last one was why they hadn't taken me out in the Goya.

'Mom, but if I'm not even nominated, how are they going to get me out?'

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