PALMA
MAJORCAN actor Julian Bastida has recently finished filming opposite Collin Farell in the Brit-flick London Boulevard which is going to be released next year.
Directed by the 2007 Oscar-winner William Monahan, Bastida explained that the film is all set in London and is about an ex-con who becomes involved with a reclusive actress. It's a bit like Snatch or Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and has a great cast, he told the Bulletin this week.
Indeed it does. It also stars Keira Knightley, Anna Friel, Ray Winstone, David Thewlis and Ben Chaplin and since last year all of Bastida's hard work appears to be paying off as he has enjoyed a number of big breaks.
33 -year-old Bastida was actually born in England but his mother had met and married a Majorca in the late 60's and he was educated and brought up in Palma.
I'm a Majorcan and proud of it but London's where the work is, he said.
Initially, he first went to England to pursue his talent for swimming. He was a key member of the La Salle swimming team here in Palma and wanted to push ahead as a swimmer. But, I returned to Majorca with my tail between my legs and studied theatre, he admitted.
In 2000, he starred in the German mini-series Suche Nach Dem Paradies which was shot on the island and then moved to Germany to work. However, in 2003 he relocated to Manchester and then down to London where he lives with his Liverpudlian girlfriend in Kingston. His brother runs a live music bar in Santa Maria where he lives and mum still lives on the island.
It's tough, or rather tougher with the recession but being an actor is what I love and it's what I want to continue doing, he said.
My agent has decided to sell me as a Spanish actor, not sure I fully agree with him - two years ago I played the part of a Nazi officer in the BBC series D-day, he said. Last year, he was cast in the hit BBC series The Tudors in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers played Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer Anne Boleyn.
The series enjoyed massive global viewing figures and Bastida now hopes that his latest role as a Spanish drug addict boosts his profile further.
It was a great experience meeting and working with people like Farrell and Chaplin, they're at the top of their game and I learnt a lot from them, he said.
Since moving away from Majorca in 2000, Bastida appears to have kept himself busy.
He loves theatre and has starred in a series of short films, music videos, narrated documentaries and is also developing his own treatments and scripts.
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