Actor Mario Casas won the Goya Award for Best Leading Actor for his role as Dani in “You Won’t Kill”, the third feature film by Catalan David Victori, defeating the nominations of Javier Cámara, Ernesto Alterio and David Verdaguer.
Mario Casas, who appeared with an Iron Man head made with Lego pieces like Goya, winked in gratitude for one of his most iconic series: “thank you to all those who have ever been three meters above the sky.” .
Born in A Coruña in 1986, Mario Casas is one of the most popular Spanish actors, with 25 feature films and five television series, including “3 meters above the sky”, “Palmeras en la Nieve”, “Paco’s People” “,” Boat “or” Instinct “.
Although his career is already over fifteen years old and his name is synonymous with success, this is the first time Casas has won a Goya for his role in the Dani content of “You Won’t Kill”, a self-contained young man who one night he meets Mila (Milena Smit), a flamboyant and magnetic girl who drags him to an unpredictable end.
A mass actor, especially in his first films aimed at a more adolescent audience, in the last ten years Casas has woven dramatic films such as “Contratiempo”, “Adiós” or “The photographer from Matthausen” and the last “Hogar”, “The Practitioner” and this “You Won’t Kill” that Goya finally gave him.
Casas is also an idol in Latin America since his appearance as Hache in “3 metros sobre el cielo” (2010), where María Valverde played Babi; they repeated in “Tengo ganas de ti” (2012), both by Fernando González Molina, who also presented him in “Palmeras en la Nieve”, another box office success that paired him with Berta Vázquez.
A few weeks ago, on the occasion of his nomination, Casas confessed to Efe that from his first films – just a child – he experienced a “vital and acting” growth, “grew up” and is now ready to “give more nuanced characters” .
Not to mention some of his most beloved comic book characters, such as Adane in “Mi gran noche” or Antonio in “Las brujas de Zugarramurdi”, both with Álex de la Iglesia, a director who allowed him to fly. and to create characters that have nothing to do “with him.
Although he confessed his desire to continue making comedy, his next work is again a drama, “El inocente”, by Oriol Paulo, with whom he worked in “Contratiempo”, where he shares the bill with Jose Coronado.