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"FacebookPinterest\n\nBorn and raised in Mexico, Kuno Becker speaks perfect English. But after spending four months filming in Madrid, his vocabulary seems to have been reduced to just three words: good, great, and amazing. The Spanish people? \"Good.\" The salty, tender jamon Serrano? \"Great.\" Filming at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernab\u00E9u Stadium? \"Amazing!\"\n\nBecker's parents, on the other hand, relied on a more descriptive choice of words when, at age 17, their son came out to them\u2014professionally. After a decade studying the violin, including stints at the Escuela Nacional de Msica in his native Mexico City and hallowed halls as far as Salzburg, Austria, Kuno broke the news. \"Quiero ser actor,\" he said. I want to be an actor. Which in Mexico can mean only one thing: I want to be on telenovelas!\n\n\"That's so cheesy!\" they said.\n\n\"It's the only way to make a living,\" Becker says, laughing as he apologizes for appearances on soaps like Pueblo Chico, Infierno Grande (Small Town, Big Hell), and El Alma No Tiene Color (The Soul Has No Color), roles that made him\u2014like Diego Luna and Gael Garc\u00EDa Bernal before him\u2014a national celebrity. \"Telenovelas are always about a boy who falls in love with a girl, and it's an impossible love,\" he says. \"I was always the guy who was a little bit dumb and who falls in love with this girl.\" The 28-year-old actor has since pieced his dignity back together.\n\nBecker stars in the $100 million trilogy Goal!, a sort of Rocky in cleats (the first installment of which hits theaters in May). He went the distance while in Spain: He broke his nose during filming, suffered stress fractures in both ankles, and swore off anything worth eating. \"With soccer movies,\" he says, \"there's something about the games. They look a little bit slow.\" Which is why Goal!, featuring cameos from David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, intercuts footage from actual pro games. \"I was on the pitch at the Bernab\u00E9u in Madrid,\" he says, \"and there were 80,000 people screaming.\" It was, in a word, amazing."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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