Four new guests squander knowledge, skills and humor in the Pasapalabra program with the aim of helping the contestants, Marta and Encarni, facing the final test of El Rosco. On this occasion, Roberto Leal receives a film quartet on the Antena 3 set: Andrea Duro, Nicolás Coronado, Carolina Yuste and Edu Soto. Let’s get to know the latter a little better.
Edu Soto (Mataró, Barcelona, 1978) has worked in film, television and theater, although he also sings and writes poetry and scripts. Already in the plays that he starred in during his high school days, Edu Soto was clear that his thing was the stage. However, his opportunity to gain a foothold in show business came to him in 2002 via television at the hands of Andreu Buenafuente through a casting by El Terrat for the TV3 program Un altra cosa.
Soto accompanied Buenafuente in his subsequent television projects on Antena 3 and La Sexta. Despite playing a good number of humorous roles, he will always be remembered for giving life to the hyperactive neighborhood party boy Neng de Castefa. Such was the popularity achieved with this character that he yelled “what’s up, neng!” since 2004, when the actor recognized that the typecasting he suffered has haunted him for two decades. “People keep remembering him and he’s fine; it’s nice that something has gone so deep,” he clarified in an interview with EL MUNDO.
In cinema, he has appeared in a dozen films, debuting in 2005 in a small role as a Mormon in Tapas, directed by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz. Among his appearances on the big screen, his works stand out in La Luna en botella (2007), Mortadelo and Filemón. Mission: Save the Earth (2008), Losing the East (2009) or more recently in Tuscany (2022).
Edu Soto has also been doing theater for 20 years. Among his latest works on stage are his performances in musicals as the master of ceremonies for Cabaret (2015) and as the protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2022), although he has also defended dramatic roles such as Fires (2016) with Mario Gas and Nuria Espert, a wonderful tragedy in which my role was absolutely dramatic. “The theater has allowed me to do this type of role, but that opportunity has not yet been given to me on the big screen or on television,” he said in an interview in Metropolis.
The Catalan actor has not stopped returning to television. In series, he has appeared sporadically in chapters of Águila Roja, El Pueblo or El Ministerio del tiempo. This same year, he appears in Nacho, the biographical series by Nacho Vidal, playing Tigerman, a real character who shared life and stage with the famous porn actor in the Bagdad theater in Barcelona, in its early days. “He is a very peculiar character and this is no secret: he is a guy who lifted heavy objects with his penis,” Edu Soto described to this newspaper.
Without leaving the small screen, Edu Soto has also been a guest and collaborator on a good number of programs, although he shone especially as a contestant on Tu cama suena me, on Antena 3 (2015-2016), and on Celebrity Masterchef, on La 1 (2017).
Perhaps his least known facet is that of a musician. In his early days, he came to have his own band called D2, with Brazilian, rumbas, flamenco or soul melodies. Since the pandemic, he has a new group, Welcome Lemi, where Soto plays the ukulele and sings in English with his partner (violin) and his brothers-in-law.
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