Alfonso Herrera, the actor who can afford to reject RBD and do what he wants
He has a 20-year career, and throughout these decades, Alfonso Herrera has shown that what really interests him is the evolution as an actor, without focusing on his career consuming his own life. This same process of change can be seen in his most recent film work, 'El baile de los 41' and, while remaining consistent, distancing himself sharply from the imminent reunion of RBD, something that has caused disgust not only among millions of fans, but also also of some of his former colleagues, something that has not diverted Herrera from his purpose: to be a professional and versatile actor.
From his first appearance with a supporting role in the 2002 film 'Amarte duele', directed by Fernando Sariñana and starring Luis Fernando Peña and Martha Higareda, Alfonso drew the public's attention not so much for his good looks, but also for his charisma. and later, for its versatility.
That same year he acted in Pedro Damián's telenovela 'Clase 406' in a small role that grew as the plot progressed, to become one of the protagonists – this was largely due to the public's response to his character as 'Juan David', which was very positive and remarkable, especially if you take into account that at the time of that broadcast there were no social networks, measuring the popularity of young actors by the number of fans they gathered in certain presentations.
By the time he joined RBD – the telenovela and the musical group – Alfonso became a superstar who, along with the other members of the combo (Anahí, Christopher Uckermann, Dulce María, Maite Perroni and Christian Chávez) caused a furor in crowds for Latin America.
However, unlike many members of his generation, Alfonso always pointed out that he did not obtain his personal satisfaction exclusively from his work, so he dedicated himself even before he was famous to cultivating other interests, to continue preparing himself in dramatic art and also to participate as an activist and spokesperson in environmental causes.
This kept him away from scandals – none of them are really known – and it has earned him personal prestige both as an interpreter and as a citizen, for that very reason, he has had the luxury of making interpretations that other actors do not dare.
Assertive and fearless in his choices of characters and themes, Alfonso has shown not only a flexible talent for transforming himself into a diversity of characters with individual characteristics – he never plays a character identically – but also an interest in participating in stories that are out of the ordinary. of the established canons and the common places.
For the same reason, he has not made soap operas since 'Camaleones' (although he does not rule out accepting a project if he is interested) and has opted for work in series, on both sides of the border: this was the protagonist of 'El dandy' and co-starred in two seasons of 'The Exorcist' for the American network FOX, 'Queen of the South' and now her incorporation to the cast of 'Ozark', the acclaimed Netflix series, with Jason Bateman and Laura Linney, is announced.
Unlike other young histriones (as was the unfortunate case of Kuno Becker), Alfonso has successfully avoided the arrogance that fame often brings to some, and keeps both feet on the ground; his thing is not, as he has said before, to be famous and appear in entertainment, but to be someone who gives the public a little of the affection that he has given him in the form of his work on stage (in 2018 he participated in 'Dead Poets Society' , the theatrical version of the famous film, with great success).
Hence, Herrera's participation in the new film by award-winning director David Pablos causes excitement as well as stupor: in 'El baile de los 41', the actor plays a real character in the history of Mexico, Ignacio de la Torre , husband of Amada Díaz, favorite eldest daughter of the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz, who had to keep his homosexuality hidden given the social and moral conventions of his historical period.
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Playing this character and staging explicit sexual scenes with Emiliano Zurita (son of Christian Bach and Humberto Zurita) did not represent a major problem for Alfonso, who is married to the journalist Diana Vázquez, with whom he is the father of a four-year-old boy, Daniel.
“The fact that a character is homosexual is not the most important thing, the situation is important, the context in which the story is found. As an actor I have played two homosexual characters – this one and Hernando in 'Sense8' – in the same way that I have played 40 heterosexual characters," he said in an interview with the Efe news agency, "and it makes no difference. The important thing is the story, what is counted and how it is counted”.
The film was well received by the public and critics, premiering in Mexico at a difficult time for film distribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has been a new milestone in Alfonso's career, who preferred this adventure to returning to the movies. stages with RBD, although at no time has he publicly denied his time as a pop phenomenon; Although it seems that when neither he nor Dulce María (who was his partner many years ago, even before the project and who declined due to her motherhood) did not return, Christian Chávez has been offended, and has not hesitated to speak to the media about it. , revealing a certain hidden rancor by telling the 'Ventaneando' program that “[Poncho] never liked being on (musical) stages, he likes being in front of the camera and he always told us so”.
Be that as it may, history always puts each one in the place that he will occupy and everything indicates that Alfonso Herrera is like one of the best actors of his generation.
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