Meet Diego Luna | |
|  | | Tinseltoon's newest signing - Diego Luna |
| | Latino lovely Diego Luna is the star of Goal! - A football movie trilogy with the first part set, right here, in Newcastle! BBC Tyne brings you the essential guide to the Mexican star.
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| | | | The Essential Diego Luna | | Full name: Diego Luna Alexander | | Born: 29 December 1979, Mexico City | | Films: Y tú mama también, Open Range, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights |
 | | Diego at the Goal! press conference |
| Diego on... | | Newcastle women and their resilience to cold weather. | Of course, I'm really happy they do it. I don't complain, but those things aren't skirts - they're belts! It's amazing! You feel stupid wearing your jacket and jumper when you see these girls. It's beautiful.
| | Football training for Goal! vs dance lessons for Dirty Dancing 2. | One is painful and this (football) is joyful. Learning how to dance is horrible. Getting up at eight o' clock in the morning to dance is not a good plan, but to play soccer is an amazing plan. I didn't enjoy the process of learning to dance, though now I know how, I can go out to dance and look good.
| | Women | I like girls that can laugh a lot, someone who has fun in their life and are independent. I hate those relations, I call them satellite relations - when someone is following you around the world. I like someone who has their own life, who has their own things going on. You can share a life with someone like that.
| | Music | I have a huge range of taste. I like Coldplay. The first time I came to Newcastle I was doing a tour of the stadium and when I came out of the tunnel they were playing 'In my place' - it sounded great and I came out thinking, "I'm from here - I like this place"
| | Movies | I like the Coen brothers movies... I like Michael Winterbottom movies too , I saw three of them before I met him - He is an amazing director.
| | Newcastle | | It's a good place if you are looking for love, soccer, friends... People are really friendly and generous. |
 | | Could that be YOU? Diego with Romola Garai in a scene from Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights. |
| ... and what you didn't know! | | Diego's father is an acclaimed set designer in Mexico. | | He has been best friends with his Y tú mama también co-star since childhood. | | Diego is a big Coldplay fan. | | Football is one of Diego's first loves - he played for an amateur team in Mexico in his spare time. | | Diego is single and says all he needs is a girlfriend and life would be perfect! His ideal women would be free-spirited and have a sense of humour, so ladies get practising on that sparkling conversation technique! |
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