Almost nothing in
Darko Peric's
life
is governed by order. When he was not even of age, the Balkan War had expelled him from his country; in Romania, while training as a veterinarian, he discovered acting and
punk
; the
Berlin
underground
welcomed him as a tattoo artist; A
hardcore
festival
brought him to Barcelona in 2004, he left his things in Germany and settled next to the Mediterranean where his manager discovered him on a basketball court, and, suddenly,
La Casa de Papel made
him a world star.
«I have always said that I am an international actor, neither Spanish nor Serbian, I speak six languages and my market is the world.
I have never taken this career very seriously
, I am an actor but I have lived several lives and many professions. There are a few examples that prove it: the first job that his agent offered him he turned down because he was at a
rave
in Los Pirineos; When they caught him for a role in Cell 211, he was in Serbia visiting his family, whom he had not seen for seven years and they did not accept it either, and he said a third no because at that moment they caught him tattooing a colleague.
"It was what I felt at that time," he apologizes now, turned into a star for La Casa de Papel, which today premieres the first five chapters of its fifth and final season on Netflix. «You can't get used to this, but in a couple of years people have forgotten, you tell me a series from 2013. And luckily, fame touched me at this age because it's 20 years old that you think is the king of the mambo ... I always compare this with footballers, as an actor they teach you to entertain, but
nobody prepares you for fame, in schools nobody tells you that you can be famous
».
Peric hadn't been told this at school or at home because when he told his father that he wanted to study acting, he told him to study "something."
That was during his trip to Romania, where he lived with film director friends and ended up studying veterinary medicine.
Before, he had been in a boarding school since he was 14 years old.
«Since I was 10 or 12 years old, I knew that I wanted to leave my town, I was too small and when I was 14 I went to the city to go to school.
That was worse than the military in hierarchy and mistreatment, it was shit
.
Then we didn't call it bullying and you ate it, but now you see it with the eyes of a father and that violence was not normal ».
ANTONIO HEREDIA
That is why now he collaborates in campaigns against bullying in minors. “From time to time I like to get involved in things that touch a nerve like
bullying
. There comes a point where you have to get wet and decide which side you are on because if we are all politically correct, what happens in the world happens ”, he reflects. And that helps Peric to enter the political debate on nationalisms in his country of origin -Serbia- and in his current host community -Catalonia-.
“
Borders and flags are useless, just for closed-minded people to make you feel like a foreigner
. Something similar to what happens in Catalonia, happened in my country with separatisms, I have always been clear that the union was strength ». As if he brought the slogan ready to return to La Casa de Papel, where he -Helsinki- is still locked up with the rest of the band in the Bank of Spain waiting to get the loot.
A character that has allowed Peric to emerge from the episodic Balkan thug roles that his career had plunged into.
In
Crematorio
, in
Be who you are
and even in
The One that is coming
.
"Here I had been pigeonholed because of my accent and my looks."
In fact, at first, when he saw that Helsinki was not speaking at the beginning of
La Casa de Papel
, he thought that history was going to repeat itself.
Until suddenly he came out of the closet without warning.
“One day suddenly at lunch they tell me that Helsinki is going to come out of the closet and I had prepared a war criminal from the east, a thug, so it was clear to me that I could not be crazy.
This is not a Modern Family or Aida gay
. "
ANTONIO HEREDIA
Again to improvise, a practice already common in his life and that in the end has not turned out so badly. Thus he ended up arriving in Spain, where he has settled his life for 16 years, at least for now, a country that he had associated with Pedro Almodóvar and Bigas Luna. “When the war started in Yugoslavia, we stopped watching the vomiting Hollywood movies when Americans enter a country. With Almodóvar and Bigas Luna we discovered European cinema and we freaked out about it ».
And, a few years later, he found himself in Barcelona in 2004, in the middle of the Gracia parties, for a hardcore festival.
He stayed and did not return until 10 years later to get the things he had left in Berlin.
«In Berlin I realized that I had wasted my time with very responsible things like being a veterinarian.
I respect people with that responsibility a lot, but in this reincarnation I don't have patience
.
In Barcelona, he definitely found the
underground
way of life
he was looking for.
"I never thought I was going to be as famous as I am now, I used to
laugh with my friends at the people who came to record publishers
from France and northern Europe and look at me now."
Today he is the father of a family, he designs his own album of anti-fascist songs like
Bella Ciao
and has taken the
mainstream
with Netflix.
At the moment.
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