| 10/01/2021 – 6:43 AM (GMT-4)
Cuban actor and model Ruben Cortada He has returned to Spain with great vigor, after spending a long season in Cuba.
Presented in an interview to MadMenMag, Cortada stated that he had traveled to Cuba for personal reasons, but the situation on the island was complicated; all this time his followers had no news of him.
“I stopped working because I was leaving for some personal issues and it got more and more complicated. It got out of hand and I couldn’t leave the country until almost three years later. It was a complicated situation. But I came back with a lot of strength.” assured the famous men’s magazine.
In November Ruben Cortada He reactivated his account on Instagram, testifying to his return to the Spanish country, with an image showing him naked leaving the sea.
“I have returned with great strength. There were things that I did badly. Everything has already been arranged after that all this madness that happened to me in Cuba. I have everything very clear, ‘the model assured his followers.
The first photos of Cortada’s return to public life were shocking as he showed long hair, a messy beard and even a sense of desolation.
“I was there alone, all alone. The beard was a way of camouflaging myself. I went really low. Bad. It’s processes and everyone has them. We’re talking about this because I’m fine now. But our demons are lurking all the time, or at least they hit me all the time. In Cuba it went to the ninth circle of hellsaid the actor, echoing his powerful message: “I’m back”.
In the interview, Cortada does not say exactly what happened to him in Cuba, but he does provide assurance of an optimal return, with more maturity. One of the things he confessed is that he is starting to enjoy using social networks, although in this sense he assures that he will stay calm.
Rubén commented on his time as a model, the importance of being able to travel in his career, meeting great designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani or Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, but now he wants to further exploit his role as an actor.
“My acting career started with a photo shoot with Bryan Adams (he’s a singer and also a photographer) in Los Angeles. During the lunch hour he sat in front of me and said ‘you know who I am?’ I answered yes, that my father used to listen to good music in my house and that he was there and he told me: ‘you are not a model, you are an actor’said the Cuban.
On the island, he fell in love with acting, but it was when he worked with Fernando Piernas, director and theater teacher, that he was absolutely impressed by this profession. His next job will be as an actor in a feature film that will soon start filming and for which he got no further.
Rubén Cortada was victorious in the acting world for his role in Prince (2014-16), a Telecinco series that captivated more than four million viewers. The Cuban actor and model played Faruk, an Islamic drug trafficker who made him one of the most popular faces on Spanish television at the time.
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