Hovik Keuchkerian visited The Anthill this wednesday to present Hole 2the new film in which he stars and which premieres in Netflix next October 4th.
This is the second part of The Holewhich was one of the most popular Spanish films in the history of the platform and which became a global phenomenon during the pandemic.
“I hadn’t seen it, but the algorithm kept recommending it to meand I saw the cover, I read the synopsis and, the truth is, I didn’t feel like anything with what we had on top of us,” the guest acknowledged.
But he changed his mind: “Then I got the script to do Hole 2 and since it was work, I decided to watch it and I didn’t understand anythingI saw it again and I still didn’t understand it,” he admitted.
Pablo Motos He asked him to explain the argument: “El Hoyo is a structure of 333 levelswith two people on each level and a hole in the middle through which, once a day, a platform descends on which there is a plate of food for each person there,” Keuchkerian noted.
“Each person must choose whether to eat only the plate that corresponds to him or not, and those below depend on it. If each person ate only what corresponds to him, everyone could eat in peace, but then there would be no movie, of course“he added.
The presenter asked him: “Your character weighs 150 kilos and doesn’t have a hair on his body.but that wasn’t originally in the script, it was your idea, right?”
The actor answered affirmatively: “There are scripts that are very closed and others that need to be developed a little more. I believe that if you read a script enough times it begins to speak to you and tells you where it should go. I shaved everything, even my eyebrows, which I didn’t know, but they don’t grow like the rest of my hair.they come out very strange to me since then.
Another detail of the film that the host of the program wanted to highlight was that each person who enters chooses a food and an object: “Your character chooses pizza and a lighter, what would you choose?”he asked the actor.
“My mother’s mousakaand if someone ate it, I would climb all the levels that were necessary and go after him,” Keuchkerian confessed with great conviction.
But one of the most surprising moments was when the guest revealed that He had a very strange relationship with fireas Motos defined it.
“It has happened to me five times in my life. It is not something planned, but when something happens to me that really marks me, that has hurt me, or has been very beautiful or important, I take something metal, I make it red hot and I mark my skin with it.“explained the interpreter.
“There are those who get tattoos, those who get scarifications… I do this and It helps me connect with those moments when I touch my skin and feel the marks,” he said.
Finally, Motos also wanted to comment on the current situation in Lebanon, the country where his guest was born: “Yes, in fact, in my monologue (he will perform at the Infanta Isabel Theater) there is an important part that talks about the war there“Keuchkerian noted.
“I don’t want to start giving sermons, but we have to put ideology aside. We are at war, injustice is perceivedviolence and blackness in the environment. Either we change course or we don’t reach 2050, whoever doesn’t see is blind,” he concluded.
