Noah de Diego, the Macael dubbing actor who turns ‘La isla de las tentaciones’ into a philosophy class
Noah de Diego, a dubbing actor born in Macael in 1995, has gone viral by redubbing ‘La isla de las tentaciones’ with Spinoza, Nietzsche, Kant or Butler.
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In his videos, the couples on ‘La isla de las tentaciones’ no longer talk about temptations: they debate Spinoza, Nietzsche or Kant. The culprit is Noah de Diego, a dubbing and theatre actor born in Macael in 1995, who has been going viral all year by swapping the dialogue of the Mediaset reality show for theories from the great philosophers.
This was reported by La Voz de Almería, which presents him as an “influencer with more than 600,000 followers”. His clips, which he shares on Instagram as @noahxdiego, are dubbing in every sense of the word: the contestants are the ones from the show, but what they say sounds like a university debate.
Descartes, Butler and Schrödinger’s cat
The examples the newspaper cites give an idea of the tone. One contestant maintains, with Spinoza, that the human being “is not the centre of anything”; in another video, Nietzsche and Kant end up at the centre of an argument, and Judith Butler appears mixed in with Generation Z slang. There is even room for crossing the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat with ‘Yo soy tu gatita’, by La Factoría, and for a line that sums up the whole idea: “Girls, as Descartes would say, we will doubt together”.
With the show’s new season, which premiered in September, the actor has expanded the cast: according to La Voz, he presented it with an “epistemological framework” of ten new thinkers. And his followers are responding. In the comments, some ask him for an entire season dubbed with a philosophical thread, so that it can serve as study material, and others are sure it would be the talk of every Bachillerato (sixth form) student.
From marble to philosophy
After all, the Valley’s talent does not always come out of a quarry or off a stage. Macael, with 5,436 residents according to the padrón (municipal register) figures from the INE, Spain’s National Statistics Institute, as of 1 January 2025, is known around the world for its marble, and now also for the wit of one of its sons, who can sneak Foucault and Aristotle into a TV reality show.
From elValle Actualidad, we can only celebrate that the talent of our land is also making its way with humour… and with a little philosophy.
