This Monday, November 29, the unfortunate news of the death of the renowned actor Sebastián Boscán, who played Leandro Santos in the popular telenovela Pasión de gavilanes, was known.
Apparently, the reason for his death was due to a stomach cancer, a disease that the Colombian actor had been struggling with for years. Nevertheless, On the night of Sunday, November 28, it would be known of his death.
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Now, one of the themes that has come to light for a memory was that day that Sebastián Boscán confessed that he came to hate his character Leandro Santos, which gave him the leap to fame and recognition in many countries of the world.
Sebastián Boscán remembering Leandro Santos
Why did Sebastián Boscán hate Leandro Santos de Pasión de gavilanes?
A year ago, the artist told the Citytv program Bravíssimo what it meant to give life to Leandro Santos, the peculiar and likeable fashion designer and Benito’s older brother in the Telemundo production Pasión de gavilanes.
“’Leandro’ made me known in 120 countriesSo, I haven’t traveled much, but to be recognized in the countries I’ve been to, in Spain, in Argentina (where I got a job thanks to that character) … they write to me from Baghdad, Kosovo, Paraguay, everywhere , especially when I dress as ‘Manola’ ”, he said in reference to the recognition that until recently he received from all the fans.
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To which he added: “People love that character. Me too though i hated it at one point, but I already have affection for him ”.
Likewise, they asked him the reason for this feeling: “I hated him because thanks to that character they stopped calling me for a long time because let’s say the character was very credible, so people didn’t recognize me, and when I (introduced myself), they said ‘ no, don’t bring that crazy girl to me, no, no, no, I don’t want her in this novel, how lazy ‘”.
Simply, as Sebastián Boscán expressed, different production houses pigeonholed him for his performance as Leandro Santos, to the point of generating stereotypes with his gender and sexuality.
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It was difficult for him to find other job offers after finishing his job at Pasión de gavilanes. However, the time came when the same television company had another project in mind:
“They stopped calling me for a long time, and for the novel that followed in the same production company, I went bravely to do a casting of Pedro Baraja, a thief … I came in speaking Mexican, dressed as a mariachi, with a beard and Afro hair , and I passed the casting ”.
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