Six Hours Away is streaming now on all main platforms together with Hulu, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video. The premise sees Guillermo Ivan as an ex-Marine Chris Montano, on a private mission to save lots of his lacking daughter and ex-wife earlier than time runs out. The position referred to as on Ivan to check his mettle each mentally and bodily, as he dedicated himself totally to the artwork of dwelling his character.
To learn how the fast-rising star is ready to sort out such full-on roles, M&F sat down with the person himself and shortly discovered {that a} love of meditation and train powers this passionate performer.
“It was such a blast doing it,” says Ivan of his newest film, however he’s isn’t any stranger to doing his personal stunts. The actor is having what may very well be described as a breakout 12 months in 2024. The star is already identified to thousands and thousands for his position as Joel Benitez within the hit Telemundo present, Al Otro Lado Del Muro (On the opposite facet of the wall), and along with Six Hours Away, Ivan can be poised for the discharge of Desert Dawn, working alongside Twilight’s Kellan Lutz. Still, finishing Six Hours Away can be considered one of Ivan’s greatest checks up to now.
“Physically, it was very challenging,” he shares. “I had to train myself for the character. I had to train with ex-Marines,” says Ivan, noting that the one method to get into a personality totally is to reside their life moderately than merely do a little analysis on the web. “You have to be there. You have to feel it,” he explains of the method. The coaching for Six Hours Away was intensive and included fight eventualities, infiltration, extraction, and easy methods to deal with weapons.
Guillermo Ivan was born in Mexico City and fell in love with performing when he was spontaneously added as an additional in a film at simply six years of age, after an opportunity go to to a park throughout a household trip. He is now an completed director and award-winning performer in his personal proper, however he additionally likes to throw himself into any stunt that he can. The star explains that apart from sequences that manufacturing firms received’t let him do, like “jumping out of a plane”, he’s all-in in the case of the motion. “When it comes to fights, and motorcycles, cars, whatever I can do, I will do.” Of course, this actors skill to problem himself stems from a love of being in nice form. Ivan has practiced soccer, martial arts, and boxing and when capturing for lengthy days, he nonetheless will get his exercises in, even when which means 4.30am begins. “It’s become part of my life,” explains the hardworking performer.
Guillermo Ivan Takes a Holistic Approach To Staying In Shape
Consistently lean and prepared for these ‘shirt off’ scenes, Guillermo Ivan tells M&F that his strategy is all about staying in form always, moderately than panicking between tasks. The actor takes a wholistic strategy to his well being too and begins every day with a second for meditation moderately than reaching straight for his cell phone. Morning exercises are fasted, powered solely by espresso and water. Those a.m. periods contain a mixture of cardio and weightlifting, engaged on his power, endurance, and suppleness. The ripped actor then replenishes himself with a protein shake.
Now prepared to begin the day, Ivan crushes the objects on his busy schedule equivalent to desk reads, emails, and media interviews, and says that after he eats his first meal of the day, he’ll hold consuming each couple of hours. “I try to eat enough protein, and enough vitamins, but I don’t follow any (specific) diet,” he explains. Ivan is extremely energetic and attends a second exercise within the night, normally revolving round his boxing coaching. “The second training (session) is very intense, in terms of cardio,” he says, noting that after one closing meal he’s greater than able to hit the hay. Ivan makes use of Sundays to get exterior and do some sort of “chilled” energetic restoration like going for a run. Sundays are additionally a time for the actor to take pleasure in no matter meals he fancies. The star says that being so energetic and watching most of what he eats permits him to be versatile and hold his wholesome regime sustainable, whereas having the ability to have a bit of of what he enjoys too.
Guillermo Ivan Is an Athlete at Heart
Ivan tells M&F that whereas he loves the trail that he has been on since that probability day within the park, he all the time wished to be an athlete “deep inside.” The star performed soccer as a child, and relished 100 and 200m runs. Even into his teen years, Ivan wished to pursue sports activities. “Me and my best friend, we were committed to sports,” he shares.
“We wanted to become the next soccer players at that time.” Tragically, whereas they have been each enjoying for the Mexico City soccer crew, Club Universidad National (also called Pumas), Ivan’s greatest pal died of bone most cancers. “Because of that, I took an acting scholarship that (was being offered) and that took me away.” Ivan travelled to Cuba, after which to New York to pursue life as a director and performer. “It was just destiny, if I am honest with you,” he says. “But sports were there from a very early stage.”
Guillermo Ivan says that sports activities, and meditation have helped him to course of his emotions, and there’s little else that makes him happier than when he can get exterior and train. “I’m always bouncing between Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City,” he explains. “When I’m down in Mexico I try to take advantage of the weather, and I go outdoors, I go to the beach. If I can train in really hot weather, that’s my favorite.”
The future is definitely trying brilliant for this hardworking actor.