| 26/03/2021 – 19:00 (GMT-4)
actor Carlos Cruz, one of the protagonists of the feature film PLANTING Regarding the political prison in Cuba, he assured this Friday that the island’s government does not want him and that is why he has not returned to his country for 21 years.
Accommodated Miami, United States, said Cruz in the program CyberCuba in the morning“No, I did not return to Cuba. The government doesn’t love me. I have the satisfaction of seeing myself in Cuba now PLANTING”.
This satisfaction, according to the veteran actor, with an important career in his country, is added to the fact that he did not have to give in to the island’s authorities.
“Without having to go to Cuba (…) to bow to the government, the public is watching me,” he said. “And I know there are still some people who love me.”
“There will be some who don’t love me … They don’t love me anymore, but because I’m no longer a revolutionary …”, joked Cruz, who played the character mentioned by Adolfo, the archetypal island bureaucrat, in the film Guantanamera (1995), directed Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón) and recently the deceased Juan Carlos Tabio.
During the interview, Cruz recalled that he was once a revolutionary: “Yes, yes, yes … At the age of 20, it is mandatory to be a revolutionary; at 40, it’s stupid, “he said.
According to the artist, he was also mentioned for roles in television series such as Cabinda A Kites, “That love” died “there, in the seventies.”
“I realized it was all a game: it seemed to be, it seemed not to be,” he recalled. “Like a friend of mine who lived in La Lisa and was a neighborhood resident, he said, ‘I’m bringing you a letter …'”
Cruz left in 1999 “disappointing everything”: “There is no illusion and a human being cannot live without illusion,” he said.
From his point of view, “a political system that does not allow human beings to have illusions (…) does not go anywhere. And it is already proven, “he stressed,” not only in Cuba, but previously in many places. “
“The time will come when it will end … The good thing about bad things is that it ends,” Adolfito said of The beauty of the Alhambra, who also participated in memorable Cuban films such as A successful man, Secondary roles, Honored, Alice in Wonderland and Wonderful lies.
In the movie PLANTINGCruz plays a retired Cuban soldier who arrives in Miami a few decades after serving as a chief repressor against political prisoners in a Cuban prison.
The band directed by Lilo vilaplana “Which was recently leaked on YouTube,” premieres this Friday in U.S. theaters. As it turned out, tickets to see him have already been sold out in Puerto Rico.
Unlike its director, the Hispanic-American businessman of Cuban origin and producer of PLANTING, Leopoldo Fernández PujalsHe assured that he is not worried about leaks from various websites.
“The film is pirated all over the world. This is not about me. What I want is for you to see the movie. I didn’t make the film to get rich, “he said in an interview Cubanet.