At the age of 14 he began studying theater at Ikastola in Durango because it was a required subject and at 18 he entered ‘Goenkale’ while at the same time beginning his career in audiovisual communications. Goya’s Best New Actor 2018 award for Awakening the Giant from Handia confirmed that Eneko Sagardoy made a good choice by letting himself be carried away by his calling. At 29, the Durango actor is entering a new phase in his career, making his Hollywood debut alongside a myth like Anthony Hopkins and on behalf of a director used to destroying everything that gets in his way , including the box office: Roland Emmerich.
“There we go” (Here We Go) announces Sagardoy laconically on his Twitter account, linking it to the forthcoming filming announced by the website “Deadline”. Emmerich, the director of Independence Day, the first 1996 film to gross $100 million in less than a week, takes on classic Rome in Those About to Die, an essay by Daniel P. Mannix, published in our country was translated as “Brief History of the Gladiators”. And it is precisely the battles of life and death in the Roman Coliseum that are at the heart of the action of this epic blockbuster from Peacock (NBC Universal’s streaming platform), filmed in Rome’s mythical Cinecittà studios.
English actor Iwan Rheon, best known for his role as Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones, appears in a cast that includes Liraz Charhi, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Rupert Penry-Jones, Pepe Barroso, Gonçalo Almeida, Kyshan Wilson and Alicia Edogamhe belong and Eneko Sagardoy. The Basque actor plays one of the Corsi brothers alongside Almeida and Barroso. For his part, Anthony Hopkins brings to life Emperor Vespasian, founder of the Flavian dynasty and builder of the Colosseum. Emmerich will direct the series together with Marco Kreuzpaintner and will portray a corrupt world full of intrigue with the gladiator circus in the foreground.
“Irati” by Eneko Sagadoy.
Eneko Sagardoy is triumphing in cinemas these days with Paul Urkijo’s Irati, the highest-grossing Basque film of all time, with more than 120,000 viewers. An epic fantasy inspired by Basque mythology, for which he built seven kilos in the gym and trained in sword fighting for three months. The actor, who shares Katrina Bayonas with Penélope Cruz, jumped into directing last month with ‘Betiko gaua’ (The Eternal Night), a short film starring Elena Irureta and Miren Gaztañaga. “My body asked me to do this,” he explained to this newspaper. «It’s as if I’ve missed the high beam in my career, I prefer to walk slowly and see the landscapes I travel. I felt brave doing it and I did it »
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