In the first minutes of the Uruguayan film 9, which in November 2021 its directors Martín Barrenechea and Nicolás Branca presented at the Mar del Plata Festival, Enzo Vogrincic, then an unknown, plays a footballer inspired by Luis Suárez who tries to get out of the airport while a crowd of journalists and fans rush at him, asking questions that find no answers and taking selfies for which he never poses. The film, for which Vogrincic won the Best Actor award at the Gramado and Bari festivals, was not enough to make him a professional, but it works as a good portrait of the moment he is currently going through.

At 30 years old, he has become an idol for a female audience that follows him with enthusiasm and encompasses all nationalities. A post on altar once I’m done with the Oscars?” On Reddit, a debate among users, also in the language of Shakespeare, praises her masculine beauty, suggesting that the descendant of Slovenian immigrants looks like a combination between Adam Driver and James Franco.

Although his resume includes a small participation in The Night of 12 Years playing a police officer; an episode of the series Porn and Ice Cream available on Netflix; another of The President, which can be seen on Amazon, and eight of Iosi, the repentant spy, a production of that same platform, Vogrincic was basically an independent theater actor who made a living with regular jobs and put his passion on small stages from the Uruguayan capital when María Laura Berch, a casting director, went to see him in a play and suggested that he record an audition for J.A. Bayona: “He was dragging furniture to do construction work. He did theater with friends, casting whatever there was, as an actor from Uruguay. And suddenly I was filming in the mountains looking at myself with my companions, saying: what is this? Where are we? ”He confided to Belén Fourment, from the Montevideo newspaper El País, in December of last year.

In October, when he arrived at a flirtatious reception organized by Netflix after the first screening in Los Angeles of The Snow Society, he confided to the writer of this his disbelief at everything he was experiencing. Chosen by the platform to be the face of the cast and accompany the Catalan director on his journey to position the film in the awards race, Enzo had already visited the Venice, Rio de Janeiro and Sitges festivals. On that night you could see in him the happiness of a child who fulfills a dream.

A long time ago, when it was explained to him that he would have to participate in the promotional campaign, Vogrincic had asked Netflix not to include him in the interview plan. Faced with the refusal of the dissemination strategists, he gave himself with the same spirit of sacrifice with which, despite being vegan, he had to find a way to gain weight in order to lose it during the exhausting filming.

Earlier this month, he was still giving interviews honoring Numa Turcatti, his character based on one of the players who died in the Andes, and the director who managed to get the best out of him by repeating takes over and over again until they were perfect. As a souvenir of his fantastic tour, there is his photo with Tom Holland, another great discovery of Jota, who even at the top of Hollywood never hid his affection for Bayona and gladly accepted the opportunity to share a question and answer session with both after a projection. When it was over, the three of them went to dinner like old friends.

Already back in Montevideo, Enzo has decided to follow the example of the footballer in 9 and, despite the insistence of the media to interview him, take a break to take care of his house and recharge his batteries. He will have to deal with the lights again at the Platino Awards gala on April 20 in the Rivera Maya (Mexico), which he will attend as a nominee.

For now she has not decided how she will continue her career, beyond a contract with Zara to work as a model. She was faithful to her promise to dedicate herself body and soul to promoting The Snow Society to enjoy an experience that may not be repeated again, but now she surely reads proposals and what she chooses will be crucial. “I would like to play a character as complex as Numa, but something darker,” she told GQ. She will surely find it.