Mexico City, Mexico.- His first performance was in a program called “The Hour of the Witches”, directed by Manolito Gómez. But what really made her popular was her performance in “Una novia para David”, directed by Orlando Rojas and scripted by Senel Paz. It was the year 1985 and Francisco Gattorno He began a career full of successes.
Then came other movies and television series of great popularity such as “Today is always still” and “Shiralad”. However, what opened doors for her internationally was her participation in “Strawberry and Chocolate”, the only Cuban film nominated for the Oscars. After this success, the young actor moved to Mexico and began auditioning for soap operas.
The interpreter’s hits came to the island in VHS format. His leading roles in “Labyrinths of Passion”, “Amantes del desierto”, “La Dueña”, among others, were seen in Cuban homes that accessed soap operas in clandestine rental banks. Although Gattorno had left Cuba, the national audience kept abreast of his trajectory and how he slipped into the big soap opera productions. Although currently his leading roles are not as regular as at the beginning of the 2000s, Francisco has not stopped acting.
In conversation with C.Ubita Nowthe 58-year-old actor told about his current projects and how he sees the country in which he was born
“I was more active before the pandemic, when I did a play in New York, ‘Doña Flor and her two husbands’, which was in the Spanish Repertoire for 12 years; and a movie in Panama. But without acting I have been only three or four months that I have taken for myself. Before, it was almost exclusively in soap operas because it was recorded in much longer time. I remember that ‘La dueña’ was made in a year and two months, and currently they are normally made in four or five months. And next April 12, ‘Jardín de otoño’ will premiere in Providence, New York, a comedy with which I will be directing on stage for the first time and with which the ECAS theater will be inaugurated”, the actor explained to the journalist. Catherine Philip.
Gattorno announced that he will be filming a telenovela in Mexico from April 17 to 21, called “Amores que engañan.” Likewise, he supports himself by doing theater and small television appearances.
Regarding what hurts him the most about Cuba when he returns, the artist replied: “I had to go because I have my mother and relatives there who can no longer leave Cuba for health reasons and what saddens me is that I feel that Cuba has stayed in the past. Going to Cuba is like traveling in a time machine to the 60s. Everything is falling down there. The face of the people, the way of surviving, the scarcity, the spiritual misery that people begin to feel there, is what hurts me the most about Cuba. I think it is a country that deserves a definitive change, for the world to open up to Cuba and for Cuba to open up to the world. We are living a stage in which it seems more and more distant that in Cuba there could be a change of thought, freedom of expression, support for artists, for the people, like in Cuba in the 50s where there was a boom literary, with writers like Reinaldo Arenas and Virgilio (Piñera), or everything that was ‘Revolution Monday’, that there was an exchange with the cultural world. Cuba has been closing more and more. It is a country locked in time”.
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