As Cattori told Schön!, his parents immersed him in Mexican culture as he was growing up.

“My parents wanted me to know my own country first; it was a non-negotiable, so I didn’t travel abroad much as a kid,” he said. “Instead, I plunged into Mexican culture hard.”

He has two siblings who are professional tennis players and he sometimes accompanied them on their tours. However, he was always more artistic. “The first time I held a camera, I was about seven,” he said. “My dad had just upgraded his VCR camcorder and casually handed me the old one. It used cassette tapes, so I kept recording and rerecording over the same one. Most of my ‘masterpieces’ with siblings and neighbours vanished almost instantly, swallowed up by the next experiment. But in a way, that ephemeral aspect still feels like the purest form of art.”

As he wrote in his bio, “Eventually as a young closeted gay man he considered a career in acting – auditioned for college – didn’t get in.”

He went on to study Communication & Advertising at IBERO, a university in Mexico. He has worked on campaigns with Nike, Victoria, Bonafont, Coke, Staud, Cerveza Del Pacífico, Sofitel, NOWNESS, Forever 21, Michelob Ultra Hard Seltzer, Palacio de Hierro, Kris Goyri, Dolce & Gabbana, Raw Apothecary, GQ, Mélia, Berger and Puma LATAM.

Cattori also explained that he wasn’t exactly prepared for just how big The Summer I Turned Pretty reall was. “Honestly, I had no idea what I was getting into until I stepped onto that massive set in Paris,” he said. “I remember thinking, ‘What is happening to my life? How did I end up here?’ Even now, I don’t think I’ll fully grasp the experience until the season is out, people respond to it, and maybe even a couple of years have passed. What I do know is that it was magical, completely unprecedented in my life — and, I’d say, in the life of almost any actor in Mexico. It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime experience… That maybe, if I’m lucky, might happen again.”