Carlos De La Mota: architect of his own dreams
During the most recent streaming Living is Incredible, broadcast from the @gnpseguros account on Instagram, the Spanish actress, businesswoman and presenter Mar Saura chatted with the actor in a pleasant interview.
Dominican by birth, but very close to Mexico thanks to his career, Carlos De La Mota is an example that destinies are fulfilled regardless of whether we are aware of what life has in store for us. This was shown in the talk he had with the Spanish actress, businesswoman and presenter Mar Saura in the most recent streaming of Incredible Talks, transmitted through the @gnpseguros account on Instagram.
With vocation from the cradle
Carlos grew up admiring the stars of baseball, a sport of great popularity in his country. However, in addition to a great skill to practice it, the current actor demonstrated a great ability for mathematics since childhood, which prompted him to study Architecture years later. In this regard, Mar Saura asked him: “Did you study Architecture, but did you know you wanted to be an actor?”, to which Carlos De La Mota replied:
“When I studied architecture I went up to the drawing tables to imitate Luis Miguel and in the bars I sang, without thinking that over the years I was going to go to Mexico to act in a novel and sing in a musical”, he said visibly grateful for the turn his life took.
That “change of professional plans” allowed him to explore new horizons, exploit his true histrionic vein and debut on the small screen acting in the Mexican telenovela Clase 406. However, there is one interpretation in particular that Carlos de la Mota treasures for its importance to his career. This was revealed when the Spanish celebrity asked him about the character that has marked him the most:
“I think the character that has defined me the most is the one I did in Distilling Love, a wonderful character called Mr. James O’Brien. It changed my life, because from being unknown two days later I became known throughout the world and in my own company,” he said.
After making a brief account of his most endearing roles, the talk led to the personal motivations of the actor, who was recently appointed by the government of his country as a representative of Dominicans living abroad. Thus, when Mar Saura asked him: “What inspires Carlos in the morning?”, he replied:
“Leave something beyond my career, and the only way you can leave a legacy is that you continue working and that inspiration and passion is what moves you”.
Faced with this response, the owner of the space invited him to reflect on the importance of his achievements, among which the multiple international awards he has received for his performances stand out. Thus, Mar Saura asked him: “Is success also important in life?” Carlos de la Mota, for his part, replied showing that he was fully convinced of his answer: “My only responsibility when arriving in this world is to be happy.”
This broadcast, which during the last two years has had the participation of the most renowned personalities of music, television, arts and sports of Ibero-America, closed with a question that encompasses his entire message: “Is living incredible?”, to which the award-winning actor had to assert: “Of course, and there is no point in living life if it is not incredible”.
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Born in Barcelona, Mar Saura began her career as a runway model and as the protagonist of important advertising campaigns nationally and internationally, such as Bulgari’s global campaign for “Save the Children”, in which she was portrayed by the prestigious Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferr.
After finishing a solid and important career as a model, Mar Saura continued to collaborate with great designers, while moving to television, as a presenter and actress. After two years as presenter of “Mírame” on Antena 3, Saura was the image of the network for six years, presenting various programs and campaigns of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, as well as host of the special program of end of the year for Spanish Television, the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2015 and 2017 he presented the gala of the Special Kings of Spanish TV.
His foray into Spanish cinema came from the hand of Asegarce with the film “El Rey de la Granja”. In 2009, the actress, requested by HBO, travels to Mexico to record “Cappadocia”, a leading series in audience throughout Latin America. That same year, HBO chose her to represent the network at the “Emmy Awards” in New York, delivering one of the awards and thus being the first Spanish in history to deliver an award of such category. It is then, when the director Antonio Serrano, chooses her to be part of the cast of the film “Hidalgo Moliére”.
His latest works in Spanish cinema have been The Beginning by Benito Zambrano (2016), La Puerta Abierta by Marina Seresesky (2016), El mundo es suyo by Alfonso Sánchez (2018) and ¿Qué te juegas? by Inés de León (2018). Currently, in addition, her work as an actress and model has taken charge as image and director of the advertising campaigns of the insurer GNP encompassed in the last four years #VivirEsIncreíble https://marsaura.net