You were already around when the movie industry made the transition from film to the digital format. I’ve learned to be calmer and more careful when steering a vehicle ever since. When I was young, I almost fell off the cliff on a motorbike because I rode too fast and wasn’t careful. How you cope with cars breaking down, exploding tires, for example- you get to learn from these events happening along the way. The fun is not in the destination it’s in the journey. It’s like you’re creating your group’s story that can be retold over and over. Outside of work, how do you prefer to travel? Would you rather travel solo or with a group? Sharing stories of heartbreak over a campfire can be entertaining and pleasurable in a way.
And being with other heartbroken people, we get to share and learn from others how to cope. Their serenity keeps us within ourselves, allows us to contemplate. During the filming of Low Season, I discovered how amazing these mountainous landscapes could be. Why do you think the mountains are so popular with the broken-hearted? In Low Season, the character you play goes off to the mountains to recuperate from a breakup. It's like creating your group's story that can be retold over and over." We sit down with the veteran performer to talk about his new film, his off-cam interests, and how he’s found his true calling in this crazy, often fickle, world of showbusiness. This month-on Valentine’s Day, to be precise-Mario once again lights up the silver screen and proves his chops in Low Season, a romantic comedy about heartbroken individuals who accidentally meet each other at a peaceful homestay up north.
From playing popular heartthrob Shone in Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2010) to taking on the role of a young man awakening to the pleasures of intimacy in the erotic film series Jan Dara (20) to portraying a soldier literally living with the ghost of his wife (played by Davika Hoorne) in Pee Mak (the 2013 horror-comedy that’s pegged as the highest-grossing Thai film of all time), Mario has constantly proven that he’s more than just a baby-faced pretty boy that can make fans swoon with a smile that he’s actually equipped with the skills and versatility one needs to last this long in the limelight.
The famed personality may not have changed much physically over the years, but his CV would show how much he’s grown as an actor. Prior to this first acting gig, Mario was only active in modeling, a scene that he entered at the age of 16. Mario Maurer doesn’t look any different from when we first saw him about 13 years ago in the 2007 blockbuster film Love of Siam.