Shock in the entertainment world due to the unexpected death of Jose de la Torre at 37 years old. The Andalusian actor had been diagnosed a few months ago with a serious illness that had not been revealed and that only those closest to him knew about. It has been Montilla Digitalnewspaper of his hometown, who has confirmed the death of the Andalusian performer, who had fulfilled his dream of working in front of the cameras in such successful productions as Toy boy, Vis a vis: the oasis, Loving is forever and Serving and protecting.
The interpreter’s wake has been set up at the Montilla funeral home, where he will be cremated in the strictest privacy before the funeral mass, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, December 6 in the San Francisco Solano parish, also known as Church of the Saint.
José de la Torre’s first opportunity came through music, and his debut in front of the cameras was as the protagonist of a video clip by Nena Daconte. But many years before he was already attracted to the world of entertainment. As a child he did not perform at school nor was he in children’s theater groups, but he loved watching movies, without imagining that later he would become one of those characters that entertained him so much. The definitive step came after taking the Selectivity, when he decided to take the tests at the Malaga School of Dramatic Arts, where he was accepted. It was in those classrooms where he recited verses from Romeo and Juliet for the first time in front of the public.
There began a journey in which he has not stopped training, learning and the role that brought him closest to the public and with which he made the definitive leap to fame was that of Iván in Toy boy — the series created by César Benítez, Rocío Martínez and Juan Carlos Cueto —in which he shared a cast with Carlo Costanzia, Pedro Casablanc, Cristina Castaño, Elisa Matilla, María Pujalte and Miriam Díaz-Aroca.
One of the moments that marked the filming and that he remembered as an anecdote was when he climbed onto the bar and stepped where he was not properly supported, but thanks to some protection he was wearing in rehearsals he did not break his leg. “Everything was a scare and a stain that I will remember for a lifetime,” he said in the aforementioned media.
“It has been a dream for me. Even if they had told me that it would only take five seconds, I would have always accepted. “I’m very happy,” he admitted, very excited after his time in the series. Toy Boy. Later, he became part of the cast of Love is forever in the final stretch of its eighth season. In the Antena 3 soap opera he played Roque, the head of reception at the La Estrella hotel who played two sides with Ordóñez (José Manuel Seda) and Irene (Lucía Jiménez).
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