For our March 2024 cover story, Bad Bunny takes acting advice from Benicio Del Toro and talks about the resurgence of salsa.
, the Puerto Rican megastar has been putting out music at a radical clip, stockpiling fans and streams on his way to world domination. Over five albums, he has proven himself a master at colliding reggaeton rhythms from back home with the trap flows of the modern pop landscape, without compromising identity or culture or self. And, he’s not even 30 yet. The man born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio has a seemingly preternatural need to just make shit.
DEL TORO: It’s fantastic. You know, Clemente had a neck tic while batting so, when everyone would go play baseball, they’d crank their neck like him even if their neck didn’t hurt. That’s what you have. It’s a tic that’s turned into a classic. BAD BUNNY: Damn, that question. I’ve been interacting with new people from other places who ask me about Puerto Rico, and I always say that Puerto Rico, in terms of culture, in terms of our people, we have the potential to be whatever we want to be. I’d like to see Puerto Rico be more aware of what we’re capable of. Most of the island’s new generation is more conscientious. They want the island to improve and they want to make a change in their community.
DEL TORO: And do you listen to rock or soul, or music in English? I mean, of course you do, but do you also listen to music from other countries, not necessarily in English or Spanish? BAD BUNNY: I actually dreamed so much about having this career. I’d come home from school and go straight to the computer, making beats and learning to record my own music. I’d sometimes say, “Damn, if this isn’t meant to be, I don’t know what I’ll do because I don’t have another dream.” But, obviously, I had to be a realist. I wasn’t going to go be lazy thinking that I’d get everything I wanted, so I went to college. I had my job to at least pay for gas.
DEL TORO: I understand you, wholeheartedly. Another question I have is, you’ve been exploring acting. What does it provide to you artistically that music does not, and where are you right now in your acting career?
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