MASTERMIND
Cooking up a Hollywood storm, JUAN RIEDINGER has been landing roles left and right–but now, he’s only adding more fuel to the fire as he continues to build an acting repertoire of eclectic proportions.
By Jam Nitura Photographed by Noah Asanias Grooming Min-jee Mowat Hair Yusuke Amemiya
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orn and raised in the quaint town of Banff, Canadian actor and director Juan Riedinger didn’t always have his heart set on an acting career. While trudging through double degrees in Biology and English on his third year of college, Juan had taken on a Drama course as a cursory elective. But what he had hoped would be an easy class filler for a year soon turned into a lifelong pursuit. A summer after his elective, he made a home of his car and hit the road less traveled all the way to the City of Angels to audition for any role that he could. “During that period, I somehow tricked myself into believing I could make a living as an actor, and I haven’t looked
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back since,” he fondly recalls. The Hollywood dream is no light endeavor, and while fortune favors the bold, only pure talent could have sent Juan into the trajectory he’s been riding through for the past year or two, gracing projects with his rugged looks and undeniable acting chops one after the other, both on the big screen and small screen–a platform divide he refuses to differentiate. “My job is simply to find truth in the scene, to breathe life into the text, and to be malleable if I need to be. That doesn’t change whether I’m doing a TV show or a movie. Television has also become such a cinematic medium in recent years, so the line has definitely blurred between
