{"id":997,"date":"2025-09-08T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:50:54","slug":"actors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/actors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Actors<\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Karen Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><\/span> as Sara<\/span>
<\/span>Brandon L\u00f3pez<\/strong><\/span> as Juan<\/span>
<\/span>Rodolfo Dom\u00ednguez<\/strong><\/span> as Chauk<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The kids never read the script. Every day, before we began, I would read them a little bit of the scene we were about to do. In this way they had a vital experience.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Guatemalans Brandon L\u00f3pez (Juan) and Karen Mart\u00ednez (Sara), 16 years old, were chosen for the lead roles for La Jaula de Oro out of a group of 3,000 young people who auditioned in a casting that took place in some of the poorest and most dangerous areas of Guatemala\u2019s capital.\u00a0<\/p>

During his audition, Brandon\u2019s ability to improvise, his potent gaze and talent for both verbal and non-verbal communication made him the protagonist. Besides acting in the film, Brandon is an up-and-coming figure on the Guatemalan hip-hop scene as an MC-DJ and breakdancer.<\/p>

Karen has participated in street theater and performance art productions that focus on social issues in Guatemala, as well as acting in bit parts for staged plays. She is interested in developing her career as a professional actor.<\/p>

We chose Rodolfo Dom\u00ednguez, a 16-year-old young man of Tzotzil origin, to play the role of Chauk, building on his deep spiritual connection to earth, his indigenous culture, his charisma and his profound humanity. Rodolfo was discovered during castings held in a variety of remote villages scattered throughout the mountains of Chiapas. Rodolfo possesses a deep, artistic sensibility evoked through playing the harp and jarana guitar, as well as in the traditional dances and rituals of the Tzotzil people.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Actors Karen Mart\u00ednez as SaraBrandon L\u00f3pez as JuanRodolfo Dom\u00ednguez as Chauk The kids never read the script. Every day, before we began, I would read them a little bit of the scene we were about to do. In this way they had a vital experience. Guatemalans Brandon L\u00f3pez (Juan) and Karen Mart\u00ednez (Sara), 16 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegoquemadadiez.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}