Miguel de León, star of Venevisión's successful telenovela
"Sol de Tentacíon", describes himself as loving, passionate and a
perfectionist.
He confesses he started acting by chance:
I was studying Business Administration at the Colegio Universitario de
Caracas. Theater was one of the classes being offered as an
elective. I enrolled in the class because it was the only option
I had. I started assisting on Saturdays from 1 to 3 in the afternoon.
Slowly but surely, I started liking it more and more each time.
There was a point in time when I was going not only on Saturdays
but also whenever I had some free time. I eventually entered the
Colegio Universitario de Caracas's theater group and abandoned my
career.
Miguel is one of Venezuela's most promising actors. He's worked in
theater, cinema and television. For him, each medium has its
particular appeal. In the theater, you
utilize the immediate feedback to immerse yourself in the audience, to
load yourself up with energy and to create with it a complete
atmosphere, a complete ambience. In television, you work with a lot
of feeling but with intermediate gesticulations, somewhere in-between
what is required for cinema and theater. Cinema is the most delicate
one of all. You work mostly at an interior level. Cinema is
special in that sense. You can only work with pure
sentiments.
Even though he discovered his true vocation by pure chance, Miguel is
actually a voracious reader of all themes relating to his career:
Theatrical theories, esthetics of cinema and television.
When he talks about his hobbies, he admits to being a movie-lover.
The child that is within us all prefers science fiction movies:
I love the whole "Star Wars" saga,
"Aliens", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". I like Arnold
Schwarzenegger a lot. His acting ability can be somewhat
criticized but Arnold does something very well: he doesn't really
"get into" his characters; he loosely "plays" with them and that's the
best approach.
The actor, the professional prefers to see films by [specific] directors.
I get passionate with all of Fellini's
films. I like the Italian cinema from the 40s to the 60s, Rossellini,
Vittorio de Sica and Bertolucci, who is the most contemporary one of
all.
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