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Reynaldo Pacheco is an actor, model and artist living in los Angeles.

Back to zero

A big old record of “Los Panchos” was the soundtrack of my adventures through the corridors and caves that I used to build at my grandparents living room in LA PAZ Bolivia. I recall living out of my imagination. My Mom says that I had an imaginary friend until my sisters were Alejandra and Maria Jose were born.

I grew up creating fictional sets and circumstances. One of my most dear one was yelling out “Pato” “Loco” to the Newspaper deliveryman; he would throw rocks back at me that would become bombs in my mind and I would run around the patio with a helmet and a box as a base.

During my teenager years I would improvise stages at home and my family would be the audience. I was fourteen years old and I had no idea there was a place for me to actually go and “play” with other people; until I discovered theatre by accident. I was walking out of my catholic high school of La Salle and a good friend and mentor Andrea invited to join the school’s theater group. That’s how my journey into acting started.

It truly became an obsession. I would spend hours and hours trying to become the character. I would investigate every single detail that the role needed to know. I was fascinated with experimenting with my mind and see how far we can go with convincing the conscious that the unconscious is real. I didn’t know how to always access to that state of mind, but I knew it existed because my games in my childhood felt very real. I knew it was possible because when we sleep our dreams awaken our bodies and we cry, laugh, shiver or feel any emotions as real. I understood that I had a lot to learn and that this mere hobby was a science. This is the reason why I decided to pursue acting as a career.

At the age of 17 I was an exchange student in Ohio Brilliant USA. It was a shocking but fantastic experience. The culture and traditions were so different that completely opened my eyes about perspectives and ways of seeing the world. I was sent to a house of Extreme Christians that used to go to church three times a week and one of my host sisters was from Poland. In the Christian school I wasn’t allowed to get closer than five inches to any girl. Furthermore, I was exposed to musical theater for the first time with a production of “Fiddler on the roof”.

When I returned home I was expected to start a career at the university, but I told my parents I wanted to be an “Actor”. My mom bursted into tears and my father was very disappointed. He literally drove me to the university of “La Catolica” and forced me to choose a career on the spot. I signed up for business administration. However, their fear and rejection was understandable, acting like any other art in Bolivia was a taboo. Only people at “the edge of society” used to do art, like bohemians, communists, drug users, gays, etc. Furthermore, I found out that my great grandfather was an opera singer and that his family almost starved to death due to his artistic life style.

I started living a double life. I would go to some of my university classes but I was secretly involved in five different theatre companies. If you wanted to do stage in Bolivia you only had the theater of the oppressed or the poor theatre. Hence, I got involved with a lot of bohemians and gypsies. I used to take buses to the poor sides of La Paz and train in old colonial houses. Here is where I learned about different acting techniques that were related to our indigenous Inca culture and exposed to Grotowski, Meisner and the Stanislavski’s acting technique. With some fellow actors we started a theatre company called “La Rodilla del Telon”. We were five members that used to gather several times a week and work in techniques, writing and exploring text.

A year later I was invited to become part of the Philharmonic of Bolivia and very soon I became their leading man. My training in Singing and dancing began and It was almost impossible to continue my business studies. The moment of truth came and I chose acting.

I left Bolivia with the first scholarship I could find, I ended in Wabash College in the middle of the cornfields of Indina. I lived in a fraternity of all male students. When the classes started I realized that it was even more academic than my previous school and that the “Acting classes” were Dramaturge. I went on line and typed “the best Acting school in the USA” and found the famous Julliard Acting School.
I took a train to the nearest city, Chicago and auditioned for their program with thousand of kids. I got rejected on the spot; my English clearly wasn’t at the level of performance.
I was heartbroken.

Fortunately, I returned to my Alma matter Wabash and continued my Drama studies, with Political Science and French. The school was so supportive that they sent me to different countries and universities to perform some research about Drama. I lived a year in Paris France, doing some clown, photography and film techniques. I lived in Mexico doing social theater for six months, working with the Zapatista Guerrilla and going through the jungles of Chiapas. We were collecting Mayan stories and performing shows with relevant messages.

Traveling taught me the importance of language and how it expresses the inner souls of society. For instance in Chiapas and Oaxaca the indigenous people say “I am here” instead of “hello” or “you broke my heart” in the place of “I love you”. In France they say “you miss me” versus “I miss you”. These are deep reflections of each culture and their way of seeing the world. Suddenly I developed a passion for writing. Wabash sent me to Ecuador to work with their finest writers for a whole summer.

After completing my studies at Wabash I went back to audition for Julliard. It was the most terrifying experience of my career.
After hours of auditioning I got accepted by them and several programs (Thank God) and chose the University of southern California for my Masters in Acting.

Finally, after years of longing and trying to study my passion I started dedicating my life only to Acting. The program was three years, we were ten students and we would train from nine AM to ten PM from Saturday to Sunday. My life was my craft.
After the three years we had a showcase, which is a one-night performance where each actor has three minutes to show his or her talent to people in the industry. It was another frightening experience in my career. I had to proof my self and art to agents, managers and casting directors in some few minutes. Incredibly, I got my first agent!

It wasn’t easy at first, nothing happened after six months of Graduation. The industry is so competitive compared with Bolivia that to be able Audition you need really good representation. The quantity of actors versus the quantity of projects is very unbalanced.

There are too many actors for an industry with no demand. The actor is the jewel, the agent the salesman, the casting director the buyer, the director uses it and the producer is the one with the money. It’s a production machine that must be respected for any American project.

Finally one day I booked my first commercial, it was a Sears Commercial that made me part of the Actor’s Union “Sag Aftra”. This allowed me to audition for Film and Tv and very soon I got my first role in the movie “Beginners” where I had the opportunity to work with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer.

The experience not only fed my personal growth but also my training as an actor, to be able to witness how these legends create was a gift. It also gave me more opportunities in the industry and made my work known.

After Beginners I booked a Co Star in “CSI NY” and consequently got my first big role in the movie “Without Men”. This was a big movie where I get to play a boy that is mute and retarded dressed up as a girl. I got to share screen with Stars like Eva Longoria, Kate del Castillo, Maria Conchita Alonzo, and Christian Slater among others.

Every Project is different and unique. However these last two films have been very special. It was the first time that I was in a Hollywood production and where I got to work with actors with a lot of experience. I will never forget the shooting of “Beginners”, it was such a small film and we had no idea it was going to become so successful.
Mike Mills called action and Christopher Plummer was sleeping … I started to freak out… I woke him up and then the scene started. Afterwards, I realized how every take was so alive, his character was dying and he fell sleep just like any ill person would do.

Acting is playing the unconscious. When you create a character you read, paint, listen to music, meet people or anything that would take you to that imaginary world. Consciously we know it’s not real but the mind registers it as real. It’s very common that in dreams you visit that world.

Many times when I was playing an intense character I used to feel emotions or memories without reason. These ones were from the character but they were still in my unconscious. This is the reason why an actor must study and be prepared psychologically for leaving characters behind.
I strongly believe that all the arts are connected. It helped me to develop characters but what really helped me to go further in my acting was traveling and studying.

An actor must learn about everything, so when you get the character you can apply all the knowledge to develop him/her. I do research, read, paint and write everything about that human being. Whenever I have more material the performance is always better.

My Latest Project was the Ultimate Ernest Borgnine movie “The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez” Yes, I had the blessing to perform with Ernest Borgnine in his last movie. In This film I play Miguel, the nurse that takes care of Borgnine. This man was so humble and he never grew up. He was fascinated with anything and everything, curios like a child and full of passion like a teenager.

Today I am back to zero, I am waiting for the next auditions to come and who knows what Characters I will get to bring to life. I have started an acting school online called HAPA, “Hollywood Academy of Performing Arts”.

It’s an online school with the latest acting techniques that connect people from all over the world with working actors in movies and TV in Hollywood. I created it because I wanted to bring the opportunity I never had when I was growing up, and to un-mystify Hollywood and make it more real.

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