It was 2009 when a Aaron Picassonine years old, appeared for the first time on the Peruvian small screen as the youngest of the Gonzales brothers in “There is room in the background“. After four years, however, he had to move away from fiction.
Currently, the young actor has been offering some content related to the TV series with which he rose to fame on his social networks. For this reason, it was not by chance that in an interview for “Without a budget”, a YouTube channel, they asked him about his time in production.
One of the questions, precisely, revolved around his salary in “There is room in the background“. “Can you reveal how much you earned on TV?”, they asked Aaron Picasso. And he replied: “I earned 1,500 soles in the first season.”
Next, the influencer also said that he used to spend that money on treats and games. “What he bought me were candies, I bought a Play Station, clothes,” he said. In addition, he advised: “Save, friend, because that will help you in the future.”
“There is room in the background”: Why did Aaron Picasso leave the TV series?
In 2013, Aaron Picasso stopped playing Jaimito Gonzales in “There is room in the background“. His income, as he told last May to Tradewas due to his experience in other previous productions, such as “Rita y yo” and “Graffiti”, and his appearance as an extra in ” Así es la vida”, in addition to “some commercials”.
His audition took place in 2008, when Picasso was eight years old. He then had to compete against 500 children, who dealt with “the filters” until 200 remained and, finally, only two. “Finally, I stay with the character,” he said.
For those years, the actor had to combine his life between the set and school. As the years went by, I removed her from him from “There is room in the background” it became more and more imminent. “I left the series, because I grew up. In the third and fourth seasons, the producers talked to me and told me that if I kept growing up I couldn’t play the character anymore,” she stated.
“When I walked into ‘There is room in the background‘ I was already almost 9 years old and Jaimito, the character, was 6; So, in the early years, you didn’t notice much of a difference. But when I was already 12 years old, I gave a growth spurt, so Jaimito, 9 years old, giving himself a growth spurt was a bit strange, “he said.
“I didn’t watch the series much”
While he was part of the cast, Aaron Picasso He reported that he recorded his scenes at the end of his school classes. He only “very rarely” had to “leave early”, but with “special permission that had already been discussed with the management”.
When he came out of “There is room in the background“, His replacement was Andrés Mesías. However, Picasso confessed that he had no opportunity to see him on paper. Not even himself. “I did not watch the series much, because I came from the recordings and had to do my homework” , commented.
Among the scenes that his audience remembers the most, he mentioned “El rap del gringo atrasador”. “Erick Elera made me part of that and I was quite happy. He was super cool, it’s one of the most iconic things that people remember to this day.”
Likewise, Aaron Picasso He stated that to this day he maintains contact with Erick Elera and Junior Silva. And he added that he learned a lot from Adolfo Chuiman, Gustavo Bueno and Mónica Sánchez. “I learned from everyone,” he acknowledged.
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