Danilo Carrera said he advocates “body positivity,” a movement for people to accept themselves as they are, but as long as they are healthy.
“I totally agree as long as he’s healthy. I think we can’t applaud a person who is overweight, has high cholesterol and has heart problems, that’s wrong. […] But There’s nothing wrong with that if you’re healthy“, he said in an interview with the Hoy program.
Additionally, he shared that those values were instilled in his home: ‘My father told me, ‘ Never refuse a kiss to a handsome chubby guy‘ and until now I haven’t denied it,” he told the morning paper.
Danilo Carrera had to meet the demands of a production company
The Ecuadorian revealed that he was banned from gaining weight in one of the projects he participated in. Without naming names, he shared the experience.
“A producer once told me: “You must not weigh more than 71 kilos” (156 pounds), I’m 94 kilos (207 pounds) so it was complicated and most importantly he said to me, ‘The clothes are super tight, you can’t gain half a kilo.’ ‘Ok boss, it’s fine,'” she recalled.
Carrera realized that as actors they have to match the characteristics of the characters: “It’s totally different from real life because it’s a character and you bring that character to life and it’s our job, our job and you have to do it.” good,” he said in the morning
Danilo Carrera is thankful that physical trends have changed
“The generation of actors 20 years ago was everything Super muscular, so huge, not my generation“.
He even pointed out that women are also resorting to surgery more: “I think that even with women, before they were much more produced, much more operated“.
For the protagonist of Invincible Love, physicality doesn’t matter: “It’s okay that we accept people for who they are, but the most important thing isn’t even that, it’s that people accept themselves for who we are.” , he said in an interview.
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Danilo Carrera is very reserved with his private life but on this occasion he confessed what was the most difficult absence he had to endure.
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Although he has had a successful acting career and has dabbled in writing and business in recent years by acquiring a banana farm, something is missing in his private life.
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The protagonist of Hijas de la Luna shared what he had to sacrifice for his career: his family.
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“The biggest absence I’ve had in my life is that of my family,” he said without thinking in an interview with the Hoy program.
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Danilo stressed that he lives alone in Mexico City, where he built his acting career, and his family lives in his native Ecuador.
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He also said he’s a family man, so he misses living with his parents and four siblings.
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“I don’t see her often and I miss her a lot. I’m very familiar, we are five brothers, mom, dad, we are seven in the house, it’s always full and I live here alone, that is, I live alone in my apartment .”
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He regrets missing important appointments due to the distance: “Missing marriage, weddings, parties, birthdays, watching my younger brother grow up is without a doubt the biggest absence I’ve ever had,” he repeated to the Morning Paper .
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Though thousands of miles separate them, the actor and his family use technology to keep in touch.
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“I talk to my mom every day and I call my dad when I go out for a day and we don’t talk about TV, we don’t talk about my work, we talk about other things,” he explained.
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He pointed out that at the end of his working day he does not talk about his work but about personal problems with his parents: “For me it’s to completely detach myself from it, I’m the one who says cut off and I forgot ” he shared.
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Danilo Carrera is the son of Xavier Carrera and Elsita Huerta who live in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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The 33-year-old actor is the eldest of five siblings, followed by Leopoldo, who is an athlete.
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The third is Xavier Eduardo, he is the furthest away from public life, he studied in Honduras and is an agricultural engineer.
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The fourth of the Carrera brothers is Felipe, who follows in Danilo’s footsteps in the world of entertainment and has lived with him in Mexico City for several seasons.
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Juan is the youngest in the family, he loves football, sports and video games.
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Despite his busy work schedule, Danilo travels to Ecuador whenever he can and stays for short periods whenever possible to enjoy his family, who also visit him in Mexico.
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