one of the faces famous soap operas MexicanCesar Evora, he almost committed himself to geophysics, a career he chose in Cuba at the age of 17. “The word sounded good to me. I couldn’t quit because the military service took me away. In the third year I left him and passed the exams to study acting. I found my true calling. The day I decided to get involved.” “It was the same day my grandfather died. It was one of the happiest and saddest moments of my life,” says the Cuban actor in an interview with DIARIO DE CUBA.
Évora has lived in Mexico for 30 years and has written more than 36 novels, Passion and Prejudice, Wild Heart, Clear Light, The Stepmother and Hold Me Tight, just to name a few. “It’s very difficult for me to go on vacation,” he says.
“My wife always insists that I rest, and it’s true that the Count of Monte Cristo isn’t the same as the Évora 20 years later, but I’m always moving from project to project. I have recorded up to two novels at the same time, with completely different characters, hand in hand with theater and cinema. “It’s been years of hard work,” he adds.
Although Évora has constantly accompanied audiences with his characters, he says it was difficult for him not to be cast in roles. “I turned down projects because I didn’t want to stagnate. I’ve always tried to balance my characters. It wasn’t easy, in the beginning I had my struggles but in the end they respected me.”
The actor, who loves to fix things and Cuban food, says he now is dove into a special role in the novel Passion Minewhich is still in the recording process and in which the Cuban actress Livia Brito takes part.
Upon arrival in Mexico, the country where he has developed most of his career, Évora said that he was invited to do some character tests and when he returned to Cuba they informed him that he was not in the Aztec country would return.
“It turns out that Mexican actress Verónica Castro had been doing a show in Cuba that had angered Cubans Miami. This all seemed absurd to me and annoyed I went to the Mexican embassy to apply for a visa. I borrowed money from all my friends to buy a plane ticket and I started there,” he says.
César Évora has no money to pay for the hotel in Mexico for the night and persuades the receptionist to give him a room that Televisa said would pay for. “The next day I met with the highest authority within the chain, Emilio Azcárraga, a very impressive man with whom I spoke completely honestly.”
“I told him I had two kids to feed and one was on the way. That day I went in with nothing and left with a four-year contract, a car, an apartment and the hotel room I had paid for the day before.”, says Évora between laughs.
The actor, who admits he doesn’t remember all the roles he’s played, says he particularly appreciates his first antagonist and a role as a priest that caused a lot of controversy.
“People asked me on the street to give them a blessing or to kiss my hand. The Episcopacy of Mexico wrote to Televisa asking for photos of the priest who was on TV because many people went to the church to look for me,” says the actor.
As for the ties that bind him to Cuba, César mentioned his mother. “It’s my big chain to this island that follows me so much, I’d love to spend more time with her. Sometimes I bring her here and her pressure increases a lot because of the size, she feels strange, she needs her stuff, she has a patio with flowers at her house in Lawton, it’s something she loves, it’s her world and me can’t take it from her.”