26/03/2021 – 7:00 PM (GMT-4)
The actor Carlos Cruz, one of the protagonists of the feature film Planted On the political prison in Cuba, he assured this Friday that the island’s government does not want him, and therefore he has not returned to his country in 21 years.
Settled in Miami, United States, Cruz said in the program The mornings of CiberCuba: “No, I did not return to Cuba. The government doesn’t like me. I have the satisfaction that they now see through me in Cuba Planted
That 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 authorities of the island.
“Without having to go to Cuba (…) to bow to the government, the public is looking at me,” he said. “And I know there are still people who love me.”
“There will be some who don’t love me … It’s no longer that they don’t love me anymore because of me, but it’s because I’m no longer a revolutionary …” ironized Cruz, who played the remembered character of Adolfo, archetypal island bureaucrat, in the film Guantanamera (1995), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón) and the recently deceased Juan Carlos Tabio
During the interview, Cruz recalled that he was once a revolutionary: “Yes, yes, yes… At 20 years old, it is mandatory to be a revolutionary; at the age of 40 it’s stupid, ”he said.
According to the artist also remembered for roles in television series such as Cabinda O The kites“That love” died “over there in the seventies.”
“I realized it was all a game: it looked like it was, it seemed it wasn’t,” he recalls. “Like a friend of mine who lived in La Lisa and was a neighborhood neighborhood, said, ‘They’re bringing you a letter …'”.
Cruz left “everything disappointing” in 1999: “There was no illusion and a man cannot live without an illusion,” he said.
From his point of view, “a political system that does not allow people to have illusions… Goes nowhere. And it has already been proven, “he noted,” 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 they end,” said “Adolfito” of The beauty of the Alhambra, who also took part in memorable Cuban films such as A successful man Secondary roles The honored Alice in Wonderland and Beautiful lies
In the movie PlantedCruz plays a retired Cuban soldier who arrives in Miami after a few decades since serving as the chief repressor to political prisoners in a Cuban prison.
The tape directed by Lilo Vilaplana – Leaked soon on YouTube – will premiere in theaters across the United States this Friday. As it turned out, tickets to see it are already sold out in Puerto Rico.
Unlike its director, the Spanish American businessman of Cuban descent and producer of Planted Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, He assured that he is not worried about the leak on various websites.
“The film is being pirated all over the world. This does not concern me. What I want is for you to see the movie. I didn’t make the movie to enrich myself, ” he said in an interview with Cubanet