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Miguel Ángel Muñoz (Madrid, 1983) has installed his production company in the attic of a building on Gran Vía with an incredible terrace. It makes sense that the least intense actor in Spain, perhaps on the planet, mounts his business in the center and with good views. The man who was MAM has decided, on the verge of 40, to dust off the youth icon suit to star in UPA Next, the reinvention of Un Paso Adelante that premieres on May 7 on AtresPlayer Premium. "Uncle Rober is back," he exclaims while laughing. He laughs so much that you end up believing his fame in the world: the guy who never gets angry.


Why did you decide to pick up a character that cost you so much to get away from? Because it's a piece of project. During all these years, on many occasions I have been asked if I would return the series and never in my life had I considered retaking the character, I am not second parts ... But I do have interesting projects and for me this is something new. It is a spin-off of a series that was called A Step Forward where three characters who were in that series appear. One of them is mine, Rober, who returns from Miami with the idea of doing a musical about what UPA Dance was. A Step Forward is sometimes confused with UPA Dance: UPA Dance is the music group and A Step Forward was the series. It's like Aida is a spin-off of Siete Vidas. When Aida is made, it is not that Seven Lives returns, it is something different. For me this was the key to acceptance. Well, I imagine that the possibility of resurrecting that success and what it implies also attracts... It was such a super success that it is impossible to even match that. I didn't think about that to accept, really. Luckily, I am in a good professional moment, I have a job and this had to be the bomb to convince me. I think it is and I'm tremendously happy to have accepted. Hopefully there will be more seasons. Once I have taken Tito Róber's suit out of the closet I would love to continue enjoying with him. It's been more than 20 years since I did the character and I haven't had any prejudice in playing such an arrogant, awkward, cool guy... He is not a type of man who has aged well. Indeed, he was very much a child of his time, with all its defects, and seen from now on it is even more noticeable. I even promoted that, I proposed a lot in that line, I did not want to justify it or that it was the good one. I had a lot of fun and I didn't care what the audience was thinking because it's just one character. Then I was 18 years old and now, more than 20 years later I had it even clearer and I have interpreted it again the same, without any judgment. What's more, I would like Róber to be even more twisted.

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Miguel Ángel Muñoz: "Siempre seré el chico de 'Un paso adelante' y a mucha honra"

  • Redacción: ANA DEL BARRIO Madrid

Miguel Ángel Muñoz: "Siempre seré el chico de 'Un paso adelante' y a mucha honra"

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Miguel Ángel Muñoz: "The tata belongs to a generation that was never tickled or taken in their arms"

  • Writing: LUIS MARTÍNEZ Madrid

Miguel Ángel Muñoz: "The tata belongs to a generation that was never tickled or taken in their arms"The last time I spoke to you I got the feeling that you were trying to kill MAM and what that time meant to you. I can't tell you you were wrong, but it wasn't a premeditated goal because for me he was already dead. When I make El crack Cero with Garcí, in 2019, it goes that the MAM phenomenon had not already passed. For me, uh, I'm aware that for people not so much. When I finished Un Paso Adelante I was worried about doing very different things, but I got characters similar to what I was doing and I wasn't interested. The radical change was the play The Postman of Neruda. I went from singing at the Palau Sant Jordi, within what for me was a disguise, to a totally different role. Was Miguel Ángel Muñoz never MAM? No, at least not entirely, although sometimes it was difficult to separate. For me he was a character. I consider myself a multidisciplinary actor: I can sing, I can dance, I drive the same boat as a motorcycle, I jump in a parachute and whatever they throw at me. I had a career as a musical artist that came from my character in a series and, therefore, when I was on stage it seemed legitimate to offer the public what they liked about fiction. It was also my way of putting on the rock star costume. To have the courage, the charisma and the lack of shame necessary for the amount of things I did on stage, either I put on that costume or it was very complicated, because my vocation was never to sing or dance, unlike Pablo [Puyol] or Beatriz [Luengo]. They are singers and actors. I am an actor who sings and dances, which is very different. That costume helped me to be the safest man in the world. It is curious that a guy was a youth idol who feels most comfortable is surrounded by older people: Garci, tu Tata [Muñoz premiered in the direction with the great documentary One Hundred Days with Tata]. Are you an old soul? Yes, yes, absolutely. Inside me has always lived an older gentleman. That is due to having started working in the cinema with 10 years, surrounded by very old people and having always been interested in the stories that Paco Rabal or Tomás Zori told me in El palomo cojo. Then I did a series with Concha Velasco, Agustín González and Mary Carrillo. I have been lucky enough to work with very important people since I was very young and they have always interested me professionally and personally. The relationship I have with my Tata also corresponds to that. I have a great time with them, I have fun, I'm interested in them. I guess that will save you now the crisis of the 40. Of course, I turned 40 mentally a long time ago [laughs]. I do not know what will happen when they arrive in a couple of months, but a priori I see it as a planazo. Four is my favorite number and entering the decade of four makes me even excited. I was born on July 4 and when I played football, despite being a striker, I wore the number four. I'm looking forward to turning 44, it has to be the bomb [laughs]. You played in the Real Madrid academy and you are very madridista. Effectively. But, look, I admit that I would have liked to be from Atleti, it's cool a hundred times more. What happens is that your team is not chosen, it feels, it makes you your father and it does not change. You wereYour child actor and youth icon are two dangerous lives that often end badly. How did you avoid its risks? It was very complicated and, in fact, I do not advise children to work as actors. I don't think it's healthy. As a teenager it is also very difficult, especially if you are lucky or not so lucky to be very successful. Along with the applause comes the risks. In my case, I think everything went well because luck and my environment came together. I have to be very grateful to my family and my chosen family. My friends have been my friends since I was 14. My friend Perico, my friend Ivan, my friend Alfredo... They accompany me in the good and not so good on a personal level. On a professional level, luckily, I maintain a stability that surprises me after so many years. I suppose it was fundamental that, in a fortuitous way, I have hardly drunk alcohol and I have not taken drugs. That would have confused me more and made me lost. Why do you say fortuitous? Fortuitous because when I got drunk the first time I felt so bad, so so so bad, that I messed it up and never again. At the age of eight and nine I was at Real Madrid, I left the club to make El palomo cojo and when I came back they gave me away. I, above all, wanted to be a Real Madrid footballer and I was on loan for a few years at Roma, which was the first subsidiary they had then. I did well and Madrid wrote me again to do a test at the Ciudad Deportiva and see if I would catch myself again. It happened that it was the day after I got that drunkenness, that they had to do a stomach wash. It was a disaster: we arrived a little late, I played terrible, I didn't start, I didn't score a goal and, obviously, Madrid didn't catch me. That clicked in my brain: "This drinking thing is not cool." So I got alcohol out of my life thanks to Real Madrid [laughs]. Never again? Never again, never again. In fact, now I would like to be able to have a drink because thanks to gastronomy and MasterChef I have learned, but nothing. I can drink some wine for lunch or dinner, but I can't drink. I don't try hard either, anyway. Not drinking has helped me a lot when I was young so I wouldn't get lost or become an asshole. It is that the UPA phenomenon was crazy as there have been very few in Spain. Yes, yes. If there had been social networks back then, we would have the followers of the guys from La casa de papel, because it was the most successful series that has existed in our country by far, nationally and internationally. Two phenomena came together: that of a successful television series when there were only three networks and the musical. Now El Hormiguero the most watched day has three million viewers, we only in Spain saw seven million. The series was a success in 60 countries: France, Italy, Belgium and 60 other countries. And then the music group put 20,000 people in each bullring and filled the Palau Sant Jordi. It was a cocktail that I do not even want to tell you, a real barbarity. Well, this is always exaggerated. I like to tell the realities. It's more fun and it's very exciting to say that you couldn't even go outside, but it's a lie. You can always go outside. Always. And Madonna, too. That's the truth. What happens is that you have to Know how to choose times and places. That is, if we are going to play in Alicante and it has been known for a long time, three days before Alicante is all pending when we appear there. There's a mess there. And if you go through the exit of a school or an institute when you are doing a successful youth series, it will be mounted. I have had to take many times the Police or the Civil Guard out of an avalanche of fans. It's normal. You count it as if it were routine. It is that at certain times it was. Especially at airports. I remember that I went to perform in Serbia alone and I was received directly by the police, they put me private security, one of those situations in which you do not understand anything. Do you know what happened? That once they took me out of the airport and took me to the hotel, I stayed there three more days sightseeing and people don't know you exist. Usher, who is one of the best-known artists in the world and fills stadiums and stadiums, a few years ago came to Madrid to buy some shoes in the store of a colleague in Malasaña, took a picture and nobody had heard. Or Mick Jagger walking through the Retiro as if nothing. That is the reality. What happens is that it's cool to say: "I can't walk down the street." Yes you can, man, yes you can [laughs]. They yell some stuff at me and that's it. Do you never stop being a youth icon? Not so youthful, because your target grows with you. There are people who are now 40 years old and are very excited to see you, but you have to always continue to expand that base. That's why I do projects that allow new people to meet me: with The Dancer and MasterChef a lot of young people were hooked, even children. Then they Google me and discover that I already did things many years ago. I am expanding the spectrum, which is good to be said by brands. Let them say: "Michelangelo's target is very broad, we want him to be our image" [laughs]. Come on, don't lie to me, didn't you really become a little asshole with all that attention? I promise you that I never went too far out of my head or did things that I had to regret or be too ashamed of. "In excess, "too much"... The nuances. Yes, of course, because I see photos of me from that time, how I was dressed to some awards or a photocall, and I think: "My mother, but who would you have believed at that time, kid?". I thought I was Justin Timberlake. But it's not that serious either, isn't it? It is the least serious thing that could have happened to you, although you should burn them. Effectively. I have not gotten into big trouble and for the age I was and everything that moved around me, I can find myself with a song in my teeth, because I could have gone down a very different path and much worse, which was very easy and very tempting. It is clear that my environment helped me and sustained me, but I do not want to take away merit. I have had the vision to catch the good train and not want to disappoint my parents or my Tata or my friends. When someone has important people they don't want to disappoint, when you're going to screw up, you stop for a second to think about them. Now you assume the role of mentor, you will be the one who gives advice to the new generation of the series. I'm not much for giving advice, but the guys, inevitably, have been asking questions throughout the shoot. And I, without wishing to give lessons, put my feet on the ground all the time. In addition, it is very diffThat the series has the same success that we had. It will work for sure, but the audiovisual landscape is different. I always tell them to relativize, enjoy without thinking about what will happen next and that, when they are not satisfied with something about the work, think that it is not so important. You may be the first actor to say that work isn't that big of a deal either. It's very unusual, but it's how I act in life. Until seven or eight years ago, work was what gave me most of my day-to-day happiness. It is no longer and I am still tremendously happy. I consider myself very fortunate to dedicate myself to this, but life interests me much more than work. For example, I don't see many of the things I do. From Drought, for example, I saw the first episode in the cinema and that's it. I don't know what the series is about, I don't know how it turned out. It's not that I don't care. When I was doing it, my involvement was 100%, but then I have a thousand better plans than to see myself on TV. There are times when the companions arrive at the shoot annoyed by a sequence of the previous day, because I come from playing paddle tennis or surfing and I am looking forward to doing everything super well and super fast to go all bowling, which is what is cool. You have to relativize, nothing is so important, neither success nor failure, nor a prize nor a cancellation of your series. Life has a plan for us and there is little we can do to change it, so I have as much fun as I can. In spite of everything, you have been at this for 30 years. I am hyperactive, every day I leave home at seven in the morning and I went to sleep. I do a thousand things, sometimes I work and sometimes not. In our profession, there is a lot of fear, for example, to say that at any given time you do not have a job. Well, I say it because it's normal, nothing happens: "Bah, now I'm not working, but that's good because I'm doing some plans and surfing, to see if when I get whatever I can combine". I think it's a healthy and more fun way to live life. Before I am an actor I am a person and I want to enjoy life. And within that enjoyment is my career, which gives me certain successes and extraordinary things like shooting with Sharon Stone and Andy García or presenting the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas. It's cool a lot, but life is much cooler. Yesterday I was on a go-kart circuit at 104 km/h. What's more fun?

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