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On his Twitter account,

defines himself as a "street dog", which is an expression of great quinqui pedigree.

Now, does that mean that the actor and film director,

, has had a dark gang past, that he has spent several years in the shadows for looting pharmacies and that he has decorated the palm of his hand , in the soft space between the index finger and the thumb, with a junkie tattoo?

Actually, none of that is on his resume.

Guzmán does have a certain fame as a shirtless worker from the suburbs who is into controversy, and who

and bullfighting fans, but those who know him also define him as a noble, loyal guy , who maintains friendships and cultivates them, and who is always there to help.

He is now presenting a new film,

, starring Joaquín González, a childhood friend who never wanted to be an actor.

Until he met Dani, of course.

He himself also participates in the film and so does Luis Tosar.

The street dog thing comes because one of his greatest prides is, in his own confession,

, and not having renounced his origins, staying close to his people from always, and not having used the fame gained thanks to his profession to undertake a process of uprooting.

There are people who come from below and, when things go well, climb the vine, and others who remain faithful to their origins.

As rappers would say, you can get a black out of the ghetto, but you can never get the ghetto out of the black.

Daniel García-Pérez Guzmán (his full name) left the neighborhood, but the neighborhood always accompanies him, as it forces Luke.

It has been nearly 30 years since Guzmán started in the world of entertainment, and his entire curve has been on the rise.

He is now 47 years old, so he started getting his first roles - as an extra in television series - when he was just past his teens.

Those were rebellious times for Guzmán, when he had not yet decided if his efforts should be concentrated on graffiti or dramaturgy.

The story of his life indicates that he was an urban artist in the early 1990s, when

were still minority trends in Spain, and he was recognized for his style with spray paint and the ubiquity of his signature in neighboring neighborhoods. of Aluche and Carabanchel.

There are no traces of that work left for the archaeologists of the future, but there are in his black book, which we imagine will preserve it.

.

After a few years without a specific objective - he earned a few pesetas by accepting temporary jobs, such as in a stage assembly company -, he also dedicated himself to amateur boxing, a hobby that he has kept alive, and also began to prepare some competitions for the body ( never better said) of Madrid firefighters.

Until, not accidentally, but not premeditated either, he began to enter the scene of the theater among the bohemia of the center of Madrid and little by little he infiltrated that sector.

Just beginning his 20's, he had already made the decision: he would be an actor.

Today we know him for roles in series such as

But there is a prehistory that goes further, and that begins with a short film for Fernando León de Aranoa (

, 1994), a small role in

(1997), by Icíar Bollaín, and so on until he became a regular face on film and television screens.

Guzmán's case, in any case, is different from that of most popular comedy actors, since his career took a turn in the mid-2000s, since having established himself in a comfortable position -in his case, in

-, he preferred to leave the series that gave him visibility and a full fridge to try to start from scratch as director.

It is not uncommon for an actor to go to the other side of the camera -his most comparable case would be that of Paco León-, but it is rare to achieve it with a start as round as his: with his first short film he won a Goya (

, 2003), and won another one in 2015 with

and his grandmother, who was 93 years old at the time.

All these lucky turns in his career did not affect his character.

He says that he is still the same: identified with the modest life of popular neighborhoods like his, that he trains when he can, and that he does not bite his tongue when commenting on the current events that surround him, because he makes the commitment and the decision ideological party a sign of their freedom.

His political preferences, which he does not hide, are clearly visible on his social networks: a few days ago he expressed himself in favor of the proposal to ban wolf hunting in Spain, in the same way that

a few months ago about how badly the bull sector is having a hard time during the pandemic.

Animalist, anti-bullfighting, environmentalist and related to the thesis of Podemos

, Guzmán has also condemned the imprisonment of

, the rise in the price of electricity just when it was coldest, the management of the pandemic of the Community of Madrid and the lack of foresight by the Madrid City Council in the face of the January snowfalls.

And between proclamations and proclamations, which are entertaining with irregular

, he finds time to make new films.

The last one, which was announced a year ago and has been hatched with a certain secrecy, is

(2021), in which he has again had Luis Tosar, this time surrounded by non-professional actors in a picaresque setting, and which points to an interesting comedy from the first half of the course.

Which brings us to the point of the beginning: Daniel Guzmán has, as Julio Iglesias said of his children, the vocation of a street dog.

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