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 function known 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 deal with 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 is not any stranger to doing his personal stunts. The actor is having what could possibly be described as a breakout yr in 2024. The star is already identified to thousands and thousands for his function 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 also be poised for the discharge of Desert Daybreak, working alongside Twilight’s Kellan Lutz. Nonetheless, finishing Six Hours Away can be one in every of Ivan’s largest exams up to now.
“Bodily, it was very difficult,” he shares. “I needed to prepare myself for the character. I needed to prepare with ex-Marines,” says Ivan, noting that the one option to get into a personality totally is to dwell their life relatively than merely perform a little research on the web. “It’s a must to be there. It’s a must to really feel it,” he explains of the method. The coaching for Six Hours Away was in depth and included fight eventualities, infiltration, extraction, and the right way to deal with weapons.
Guillermo Ivan was born in Mexico Metropolis and fell in love with appearing 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’s 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 “leaping out of a airplane”, he’s all-in in the case of the motion. “In relation to fights, and bikes, vehicles, no matter I can do, I’ll do.” After all, 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 taking pictures for lengthy days, he nonetheless will get his exercises in, even when meaning 4.30am begins. “It’s turn into a part of my life,” explains the hardworking performer.
Guillermo Ivan Takes a Holistic Method To Staying In Form
Persistently lean and prepared for these ‘shirt off’ scenes, Guillermo Ivan tells M&F that his method is all about staying in form always, relatively than panicking between tasks. The actor takes a wholistic method to his well being too and begins every day with a second for meditation relatively than reaching straight for his cell phone. Morning exercises are fasted, powered solely by espresso and water. These a.m. classes contain a mixture of cardio and weightlifting, engaged on his energy, endurance, and adaptability. The ripped actor then replenishes himself with a protein shake.
Now prepared to start out the day, Ivan crushes the gadgets on his busy schedule resembling desk reads, emails, and media interviews, and says that when he eats his first meal of the day, he’ll hold consuming each couple of hours. “I attempt to eat sufficient protein, and sufficient nutritional vitamins, however I don’t comply with any (particular) food regimen,” he explains. Ivan is extremely lively and attends a second exercise within the night, often revolving round his boxing coaching. “The second coaching (session) may be very intense, when it comes to cardio,” he says, noting that after one ultimate meal he’s greater than able to hit the hay. Ivan makes use of Sundays to get outdoors and do some sort of “chilled” lively 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 lively 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 little bit of what he enjoys too.
Guillermo Ivan Is an Athlete at Coronary heart
Ivan tells M&F that whereas he loves the trail that he has been on since that probability day within the park, he at all times needed 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 needed to pursue sports activities. “Me and my greatest pal, we have been dedicated to sports activities,” he shares.
“We needed to turn into the subsequent soccer gamers at the moment.” Tragically, whereas they have been each enjoying for the Mexico Metropolis soccer workforce, Membership Universidad Nationwide (also called Pumas), Ivan’s greatest pal died of bone most cancers. “Due to that, I took an appearing scholarship that (was being provided) and that took me away.” Ivan travelled to Cuba, after which to New York to pursue life as a director and performer. “It was simply future, if I’m trustworthy with you,” he says. “However sports activities have been there from a really early stage.”
Guillermo Ivan says that sports activities, and meditation have helped him to course of his emotions, and there may be little else that makes him happier than when he can get outdoors and train. “I’m at all times bouncing between Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico Metropolis,” he explains. “After I’m down in Mexico I attempt to reap the benefits of the climate, and I am going open air, I am going to the seaside. If I can prepare in actually sizzling climate, that’s my favourite.”
The long run is actually wanting brilliant for this hardworking actor.