Andrés Parra revealed that his character in ‘The Initiates 2’ matched his darkest side: “Very crazy, but yes”

Andrés Parra spoke to Infobae Colombia about his starring role in the sequel Initiates, Shadow Journala film in which he gave a second life to the disturbed journalist and detective Frank Molina, a character that touched his deepest fibers because it is connected to his real life.

The Cali actor explained that he noticed and thought about the relationship and similarity that exists between him and the man he plays right during the promotion of the story, because he didn’t stop to analyze in the middle of filming that they both resorted to writing. to share your darkest side with the world and as a healing method. “It’s really crazy, I realized later, I started to understand that the relationship wasn’t something I realized on the record. When I saw the film, I said, yes, of course, it’s very connected, it’s very crazy,” he said.

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For Andrés Parra, it is important that his characters have a psychology behind them that allows him as an actor to play with the subtext, although he admitted that during his artistic career he never received training in the psychology of the character, something that he considers essential when he goes to put yourself in the shoes of another person, whether real or fictional.

But in this particular case Initiates, Shadow Journalwhere he plays a man who survived in a nursing home, where he was admitted due to obvious psychological problems and where he faced harsh treatment, complete with strong drugs that physically assaulted him, Andrés gives the public what may be one of his best performances for several critics, because he completely erased his image and that of his previous works.

But what intrigued the actor the most was discovering after some time that Frank Molina, the name of the journalist he plays, practically followed the same steps as he had to travel inside himself to resolve the fractures that affected his present. did Parra recently with a creative exercise.

“I confronted myself and understood that this was not happening only to me, Who hasn’t had relationship problems? How many people have not achieved success and still do not feel good? “We were all wondering why I and no one else was spared a bad day,” he mentioned.

As the story progresses, the character is torn between the conflict of returning to his past for the light and the darkness he experiences in a world threatened by climate change and pollution. In addition, the film foresaw something that was perceived as far-fetched, but in the case of Colombia, at the very time the film was released, the country was experiencing a similar situation with water rationing in the capital and energy shortages in several countries. its capital cities.

“The time came when I could suffer no more, I was fed up with irritability, boredom, dissatisfaction and depression, that was the collapse,” Parra said. This is how, through professional help and the texts he writes, he relieved everything that was bothering him, in addition to taking responsibility for his affections.

A mirror of what Frank had to do in the Colombian film that premiered on Prime Video on September 27 and is based on the books of the same name by Mario Mendoza. Initiates, Shadow Journal. Here, some of his most notable characters return, such as Frank Molina, a conflicted forensic journalist turned private detective in a crumbling city trying to sort out his life.

Exactly the message that the film wants to leave by showing people vulnerable to issues that have affected them for a long time and refused to confront and deal with them, such as the issue of mental health, saving and preserving the energy of the environment, Andrés shared in his personal case, he prefers to resist or hide from the notorious changes that the Earth is going through.

“I think we need to meet face to face. It forces us to go back to the basics, to what was really important, zero,” he mentioned.

On the other hand, he added, man is focused on externalization and not on cultivating his inner self. “We are afraid to go to that place full of shadows, full of wounds. that’s what i think part of our mental imbalance is somewhat caused by disconnection from ourselves, We are totally disconnected, everything is external, there is never an encounter with ourselves. That’s what my character achieves in the film, clarity in depth and avoids staying in what I don’t know, I don’t understand what most of us are in,” he concluded.