There have been no surprises. David Verdaguer has won the Gaudí award for best leading actor for his portrayal of the comedian Eugenio in the biopic directed by David Trueba, You know that one. Verdaguer thought he could win and asked his daughter who he would thank for the prize. "Lupe made me a list: mommy, daddy, the bullies, the kids at school (Cervantes, a public school, that's very important), the Three Wise Men, Uncle and the super Kittys," the actor explained with a lot of humor
The Gaudí winner also noted that "it is an honor to be nominated alongside Ammann, Auquer and Pla." The actor has prevailed over three other great performers, Alberto Ammann, who plays a young Venezuelan who wants to settle with his Barcelona wife in the United States and suffers a harsh interrogation at the border in Upon Entry; Enric Auquer, who becomes Antonio Benaiges, a teacher who dazzled his students with his modern pedagogical techniques during the Second Republic in The teacher who promised the sea; and Oriol Pla, the boyfriend of the traumatized Mila in Creatura.
Getting into the character of Eugenio was not easy for Verdaguer. If the viewer closes his eyes, he will hear Eugenio's authentic voice, speaking or singing. If he opens his eyes, he will see the real Eugenio thanks to the makeup team that spent an hour and 40 minutes each morning transforming the actor during filming. , in giving him a false nose and in metamorphosing his beard and hair, which have nothing to do with those of the authentic comedian.
The makeup helped, but the success of Verdaguer, who 15 days ago won the Feroz award for best actor for this role, lies in his great acting skills and his spectacular ear. The performer can imitate many people and the voices of Gracita Morales, Jordi Pujol and Pasqual Maragall come out very well, according to what he confessed in an interview with La Vanguardia on the occasion of the premiere of Saben esall last November.
Thanks to makeup, exceptional hearing and a lot of study, Verdaguer turns into a serious, but very funny man, dressed entirely in black, with smoked glasses, sitting on a stool, with a tube glass in one hand and a ducats in the other, ready to tell one of the 6,000 jokes in his repertoire. That is, in the famous Eugenio.
The actor is now a true expert in those acudits that “were authentic scores, they worked with a kind of meter, with very studied pauses; If you changed something, the whole joke fell apart, because Eugenio started with music and that was what he played with when it came to creating humor,” noted the brand new Gaudí award for best actor in the aforementioned interview.
