The renowned actor Ernesto Benjumea, son of the great Carlos ‘the fat man’ Benjumea acknowledged that he went to medical schoolbut then over time he realized that he was not suitable for this respected profession.
Despite accompanying his father in his acting career, both national and international, Ernesto wanted to avoid this path and dedicate himself to other areas, but in the end life put him in the inheritance that he carried in his veins.
Ernesto Benjumea’s failed attempt at medicine
“I wanted to avoid that part, I wanted to study medicine, it was what I tried to do as soon as I graduated from school, that didn’t work (…) it was terrible because I studied and studied, but I didn’t learn anything, it was fatal“said Ernesto in an interview with La Red de Caracol Televisión.
When he retired from medicine, he was left doing nothing and his father suggested that he participate in plays and small characters.
Benjumea jr. He reveals that at first he was not interested in it and that he took it as normal, but later he fell in love with art.
“It was something very curious because two invitations came almost at the same time and on the other hand an invitation to do television and at that moment I had to decide and By some divine inspiration that I am very grateful for, I decided to take the long road and I went to theater school,” Benjumea added.
With his entry into television and the acting world, he began to learn and inherit that path that his father had left him.
“Of body expression and I left absolutely in love, my life transformed“I had a lazy career, very, very judicious, very constant, and then I already knew that I didn’t want to do anything more than that,” Benjumea said.
Ernesto wanted to make a different product, he was a different type of actor who sought to differentiate himself from his father, he studied the scripts a lot, committed to getting the best scene.
The actor has earned the respect of the industry and in his generation he stood out from his peers.
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