Jordi Molla

Born on July 1, 1968 in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Jordi Mollà i Perales was preparing to be an administrator. “But something inside me told me that I had to do something else, that even if it scared me, even if it could be catastrophic, I had to study theater and try to be an actor.” He decided to try to fulfill his dream, and finally enrolled in the Institut de Teatre de Barcelona, ​​although he later expanded his education in Italy, Hungary and England. He began acting with the Catalan company Teatre Lliure, as well as appearing briefly in the regional television series La granja .

He made his debut in the feature film with Jamón, Jamón , as the boyfriend of another first-timer, Penélope Cruz , and together with Javier Bardem , who had barely started his career. After discreet performances in Historias de la puta mili , Mi hermano del alma , Alegre ma non tropo or Todo es mentira , he was the friend of Juan Diego Botto in Historias del Kronen , a portrait of the erratic youth of the 90s, directed by Montxo Armendariz . He also had the opportunity to work with Pedro Almodóvar in La flor de mi secreto, and coincided again with Penélope Cruz and Juan Diego Botto, in La Celestina , an dispensable version of the classic by Fernando de Rojas .

The actor did his best work in La buena estrella , by Ricardo Franco , where he was Daniel, a guy who mistreats his one-eyed girlfriend, who after getting pregnant takes refuge in the house of a sterile butcher. In addition to working again with Bigas Luna in the dispensable Son de mar , playing Sapo, Eduardo Noriega ‘s suspicious roommate in Nadie conoce a nadie , and a role in minor films such as the western A dollar for the dead or Second skin , He made his Hollywood debut with Blow , during the filming of which he made friends with actor Johnny Depp .

Since then, Mollà has lavished more as a supporting role in productions of the American majors, such as Bad Boys II , El Álamo (2004) , Elizabeth: The Golden Age , Che, Guerrilla and Night and Day . He occasionally returns to Spanish cinema in titles like GAL , where he was a commissioner very similar to José Amedo.

Mollà is a versatile artist who is not limited solely to acting, but also has literary concerns, as he has written the works ‘Agua estastanca’ and ‘The first times’. He is also the author of various video art creations, and is a prolific painter. He was also the director of the film We Are Nobody , a critic of the cathodic world, although he assures that he does not have a television in his house.

Despite the fact that he has an enviable position –they keep calling him to shoot Hollywood productions– the truth is that Mollà accumulates more absurdities than successes, with ‘glorious’ titles, such as The Consul of Sodoma . But he doesn’t seem to care about this at all. “I like actors who have done jobs that go down in history and performances to forget. An actor who always hits the target is terribly bored, he is like a tennis player who returns everything”, comments Mollà. “I don’t want to compare myself to Marlon Brando at all, but I think for that very reason now we remember him so great and he gave us such huge jobs.” Indeed, equating yourself with Marlon Brando can be a hateful comparison. The film is pending releaseThere Be Dragons , where he plays a supporting role.