This 2002 film has become a new classic of Mexican cinema, now the actor revealed what was the salary for his weeks of filming next to Martha Higareda and Luis Fernando Peña
Armando Hernández gave life to “Genaro” in the 2002 film (Photo: Instagram @armandohernandezoficial)
Armando Hernández rose to massive fame with the release of the film Loving you hurts, released in 2002 and starring Luis Fernando Peña and Martha Higareda. This film has managed to persist in the collective memory of the public, being considered as a new classic of Mexican cinema.
But the film directed by Fernando Sariñana was almost a stroke of luck for the actor, who first sought to work as an aviator pilot. And it is that thanks to the area in Mexico City where the actor grew up, Hernández became familiar with airplanes at a young age , which is why he developed his interest in the aeronautical industry.
It was in the most recent interview with Yordi Rosado where the 39-year-old actor spoke about how his foray into acting was, first he pointed out that he was very interested in aircraft, and then focused his path towards his artistic vocation.
The cast of ‘Loving you hurts’ had a virtual reunion in the midst of the pandemic, in 2020 (Photo: Screenshot)
Without any kind of acting preparation, Armando began his journey in the film sets with the film De la calle, and since it was his first job, the actor thought that he would not receive an opportunity in the field again soon, so the offer to participate shortly after in Amarte hurts, along with his friend Luis Fernando Peña it was the great opportunity that positioned him in the public eye.
The actor had to quit his job at an airline when he received an offer from Fernando Sariñana to bring to life the character of “ Genaro” in the film that is now part of popular culture in Mexico: “They give me a piece of paper, ‘this is your salary, you stayed in the film, it’s 5 weeks of filming’. I grab the piece of paper and I ‘wow, they paid me 35 thousand pesos, nothing”, he said.
At 39 years old, the actor has already appeared in dozens of Mexican productions (Photo: Instagram @armandohernandezoficial)
Although from a distance, the also member of the “dysfunctional family” of the program Me I burst out laughing, he considers that the salary he received was little, he contrasted it with what he received at the time from the airline: around 2 thousand pesos a month, so what he won on the tape it was a good opportunityfor the actor.
Armando pointed out that at that time money was not his main motivation, but to find a project that would spread his image and project his career. To date, he is one of the most emblematic young actors of current national cinema and continues with an ascending career also in television series, such as El César, a 2017 project where he gave life to Julio César Chávez.
In October 2020, the actor recalled his experience in Loving you hurts in the program Pinky promise, hosted by Karla Díaz on YouTube, where Armando revealed that the forecasts for the film were not very good, as he frequently received comments about the film’s script, which many considered very attached to the melodramas of the television.
The film is well remembered by the generation of that time and also meant in musical launch by Natalia Laforucade (Photo: Archive)
“We had many things against us because suddenly the press said ‘Hey, who is going to see this movie at the cinema? when we have free melodramas on television? because it’s the typical story of the poor man with the rich woman’”, he recalled then, however the actor was pleased with the results of the film that to date continues to be a source even of memes and references for the generation of that time.
“But it turned out to be a hit, and it was a very big platform for For all of us who participated in that film, now Martha Higareda is who she is, Poncho Herrera, Luis Fernando, Ximena Sariñana… we were a group of kids and we wanted to tell a story and we were making movies,” Hernández recalled.
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