Matias Varela 2016

[christine73]

Check out the latest news for Matias Varela in 2016

[christine73]

Thank you for the post Kayleigh

Matias is now a Daddy!

https://www.instagram.com/p/_PVZpWC3Y5

[viqueen]

The Premiere of Point Break with Matias was this weekend in Sweden. I also found this article in King Size Magazine . I used Google translate to give you the English version below. On the website under the original version of this article are also some of his favorite Hip Hop songs.


As a 11-year-old, he dreamed himself away through the characters on screen, now is the Matias Varela date with Hollywood movie "Point Break" who has Swedish theatrical release February 5.

- To dream so big, to go to America and make a film, it was just too big dreams. I had not the confidence to dare to dream that way, says Matias Varela to Kingsize Magazine that hits the actor to talk to hip, career, dreams and the new Hollywood movie "Point Break".


Matias Varela was born in 1980 and in his teens, early 90s sat hip hop imprint on him and his interests. He wanted to be a rapper. ( Editor's note: see some of Matias favorite hip-hop songs at the bottom of the article ).

- I got older and I realized that I can not rap. I grew up in the music and around 1992 began hiphop become, more or less, an established genre. And we went around with baggy jeans, people laughed and thought we looked totally wacky and weird but then everyone wanted to get involved with hip hop.


Movie interest already started to grow when Matias was 11 years old. His parents had bought a TV and Matias also began hanging out with people whose parents worked in the cultural.
- And the friends' parents had VHS collections that were as big as a library, says Matias.


Was it escapism or did you want to be like actors?
- It was the everyday escape to a beginning course. But then it developed into a genuine interest. As I got older I started to realize, "Oh, this is a craft that this is a job". And then I was interested in a job.
- I wanted to work with it right early, when I was about 14 years. Sen did not feel it as real as it could happen in real life. It was a different time. It may sound a bit like it happened so terribly much. I'm only 35 years old; It is nothing! But as I grew up in an analog world. We did not have internet access. It was not so damn easy to pull to Thailand on vacation, drag and visit a friend in Japan, pulling at Coachella or LA. It did not work that way.

- How to dream so big, that "Oh, I'll go to America and make the film," It was just too big dreams. I had not the confidence to dare to dream that way. It was not until much later, when I was almost 30 years old and had started working in Sweden as I thought, "okay maybe I can live like this might be a career for me really." When I started to think along those lines, I was already an adult.


Right action movies, it's your favorite genre?
- Not in the way that I agree action or thriller higher than any other genre. It's more than a coincidence that I ended up the most in the genre. I get that question sometimes, and I do not know I have no real answer as to why this is so. I have the great fun on the job and I am grateful. I enjoy working in my profession if that is what you are wondering? Haha!



Haha it was actually my next question. That's right here with being put in a box, you know how some actors always get the same type of role, some women will always be "the boss lady" and some actor must always be "jerk". How do you look at it, but just to end up in such a trade as an actor?
- Yes you, it is a complex issue. It is the market or the employer puts various actors in the trade. I do not think there is any actor who says "this my tray, this is what I should do." I think they might be the type of role that they did this once very good. Then maybe they do, they again very good, and then a third time, good and then going to the employer that "every time we need someone who does this type of role we will call him / her for they have played well in the past." The problem is that if you as an actor feel that it fallen into the wrong slot. Or get to do things you do not want to do. If you find yourself in a compartment where you feel comfortable and think "Damn fun", then it is something positive. And I think it is very individual. I'm happy anyway!


Everyday Escape childhood later became professional title. In 2000 he participated in TV4's soap "New times" and then various smaller roles. It took almost ten years until he had his breakthrough as "Jorge" in "Fast Cash". Matias had read Fast Cash, and when he heard that the book would be a movie, he took the opportunity.


You called up the director and more or less said, "I will have the role of Jorge" - where did run away? It's not so common to call someone up and say so?
- It was an incredibly conscious choice on my part. A knowledge of how Sweden looks, if we are going to be political. I understood that if I ever have a chance to get a platform to build a professional career so I have to get a role that has such a big impact, so I can establish myself on a movie or two movies. That is how it usually works. I was 28 years old and had already tried and failed with small roles. And for me, then, who is not ethnically Swedish, you see, so it is even more complex for there is not that many good roles that are not ethnically Swedish in Swedish films.
- There is the occasional b-roll. They throw in an immigrant so it gets a little darkness in all the light in terms of color type. Otherwise, it is not really mastiga portraits of people who are not ethnic Swedish. When I realized that they should make a movie of "Fast Cash" so I realized that this is my only chance. If I do not get it so I can stop dreaming about film and prepare for the future and what to do in the long term. I saw it as my only chance.







Action movie Point Break is a modern version of the film from 1991, with the same title. It is about FBI agent Johnny Utah that detects patterns of crimes committed by a group of thrill-seeking athletes, then Utah have a similar past. Utah infiltrates the group, which among others Grommet character played by Matias Varela included, to be able to put them there. The film depicts besides nature and adventure lifestyle, brotherhood and loyalty.


It was Matias agent who tipped him off about the role of Grommet, after reading the script and asked Matias do the same. Matias took the bait, played two days later in a test film in his kitchen at home in Stockholm. Then he skypade with the director who announced that Matias got the role. Although he now gets interviewed for having starred in a Hollywood movie, he is down to earth and grateful. When I ask if he would rather play a different role in the film, the answer is clear:

- No. I try to see life as the glass is half full instead of half empty. We live in a time where everyone just wants more and more. All 90 Baby Boomers are up to 150 million stuff simultaneously. I'm happy for what I get. It is a Hollywood movie of 100+ million, so I'm happy that I even get to be with. As I have grown up, the odds of this happening are the mathematically so amazingly small so my gratitude greater than my desire to be the center and say that "I am the greatest" - it's not so important to me.



The film Point Break has been recorded in a number of different countries and environments such as: Tahiti, Germany, Austria, the Swiss Alps, the Italian Alps, the Italian Riviera and Venezuela. The actors have thus found themselves on the sites and in environments as stated in the film, which is peculiar when you really do not need it when recording movies thanks to today's technology.
- That's why I notice that you have to do these interviews because it is therefore zero green screen in the movie, for real! When they drop and flyger- it's real!



It's insane!
- Yes! The motorcycles through the windows is for real, the motorcycle in the beginning when they drop is for real.


Not even stunt performers?
- No, no stuntmen, but those who are in the movie is the best in the world at it. When they would make a climbing stage as they took in Chris Sharma (professional climbers), and the snowboard scene they had with Xavier De La Rue (professional snowboarder). And I hope people go and see the film for the reason for it is made ​​in an old fashion way. In the past, people had to do it this way.


But did you get any training?
- Yes. For real! It took a long time before we even starred. The first 5-6 weeks, it was climbing courses, training, learning to drive motocross, shooting practice with weapons. That's what's the cool thing about this type of productions, they have that kind of fucking resources so that if they really want someone to get there so they fix it. They wanted a DJ and then there's a guy named Steve Aoki taking $ 500 000 per gig ...



Within brackets only; He was just the kind of a second!
- Yes, he was just in a second. Someone ba "he's cool" and indeed a few days later, he is there. Stands and plays discs in a giant villa and I have no idea how much money they threw up that he might show up but it will not be a few pennies.


The actor Tobias Santelmann who plays the character "Chowder" in the film is Norwegian and Matias familiar with already. During a scene in the recording decided Matias and Tobias decided to speak Swedish and Norwegian in one of the scenes.
- We got the feeling and ba freestyle anything on the Swedish and Norwegian and we felt that, but this was cool. They ba "No, this is not cool. Stop it! "It was too much and director ba" Now you're talking something really weird now you must stop at once! "



If the role of Grommet in Point Break has opened up Hollywood for him, he can at present not edit posts or determine. But he got a role in the film "Assassin's Creed" (which premieres at the end of 2016). But even careers facilitating role in Point Break Matias future from several aspects: Now you know the industry that he can actors in English and that he is a reliable person to hire.

- It is what it is all about. It could be the point break, it could have been "Days Of Our Lives". Now, my agents to show this to people and say "look, he can speak English." It's the skillnaden.Om someone would ask "what did he do then?" Then you can refer to Point Break, and then people can relate. And in that way it was easier for me to get Assassin's Creed. Not that I was so fantastic in Point Break, but it shows that directors trust me. They check the course if I'm in time, I was proficient and then feel even others that they can hire me. The same goes for Sweden. If you do a TV series here once and how it works: You will come in time, proficient, and do not think you are the best in the world and all that, so bailer chances dramatically that you get an additional job, and then it leads in turn to the next since then one at that.


Point Break is theatrical release in Sweden today, February 5. Tickets via SF.se

[viqueen]

As it's also mentioned, Matias Has part in the upcoming Assassin's Creed based on the Video Game. He'll be appearing alongside Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Michael K. Williams and Michael Fassbender.


I hope this means we'll be seeing more of him.

[christine73]

Assassin's Creed will def be on our watch list. Son's a gamer so I'm sure he'l probably want to see it as well.

[viqueen]

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Matias is always posting interesting photos, both current and flashback photos of he and Gustaf. He really treasures their friendship and brotherhood. I'm sure it's probably different now that he's starting a family and Gustaf is traveling so much but he always finds time and ways to show him love.

[viqueen]

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Matias and friend on the opening day of Gronalund amusement park.

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[viqueen]

Matias has surely grown into a very handsome man, like a young Latin Al Pacino.

[ohva]

Thanks ViQueen! We need to do a better job posting on Matias.

Gustaf's dearest friend.

[viqueen]

A lot of his mention are low-key and pretty much in Sweden but I try to keep up. He seems to be working consistently and getting some good parts he's paying his dues.. I also like the depth of some of his interviews. Especially when the topic is being an immigrant. I find it fascinating juxtapose to the immigrant discussion here.

[ohva]

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[ohva]

Matias picture

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[viqueen]

This looks amazing! Fazzy (Michael Fassbender), Michael K Williams, and Matias. Looks better than Warcraft....