SLP, Mexico.- Whether like Patricia, in Pending mattersor like Sandra, in Be rebornBelissa Cruz has imposed herself on the Cuban scene as a actress versatile that has embodied roles stamped in the Cuban imagination.
own artist He has said that he was part of the theater group Olga Alonsoby Humberto Rodríguez, a space in which he got involved when he was just 6 or 7 years old.
Determined to be an actress, she studied Accounting to be able to be in the group, because if she entered a boarding school she could not attend, as she stated in an interview with CubaYes.
At the age of 14 he failed the tests at the National School of Art (ENA): “I said, ‘I’m not coming anymore.’ For me it was very strong, because it is a complicated age, you believe that you have all the possibilities, and it didn’t turn out that way; then Humberto told me: ‘No jury in the world can question your talent. You are an actress, it doesn’t matter if you pass school or not.’ And so it was, I continued with it, doing all kinds of theater: universal, Cuban, everything.”
Now, at 35 years old, and having appeared in several Cuban soap operas and being a visible face in the country, Belissa Cruz is committed to continuing her professional career always from within the Island.
“I’m not leaving”
Interviewed in August by Massiel DueñasBelissa expressed that as long as she has food to give to her grandmother and son she would never leave Cuba, in a context where many of the actors have opted to consolidate their careers outside the Island, in order to have freedoms that they did not enjoy in Cuba.
“As long as I can put a plate of food on the table for my grandmother and my son here, and eat it calmly, with dignity, I’m not leaving,” were his words, which in recent days have been shared on social networks.
“My soul is full, so completely full because I am doing what I like. So I applaud you if you want to go and work on what you want to work on. The same in a McDonald’s, in a I don’t know what, or in a store selling clothes and with that you are happy – obviously, you are better off financially. But you’re not even close to your family. I could never leave my grandmother. “I can’t,” he said.
However, she acknowledged that life as an actress is very difficult. In his testimony, he argued that the salaries are very low and the work is exhausting, since he must do other things. labors to feed his son and grandmother.
“It is very sad, very sad and very hard that you have 12 hours of work getting up early; People believe that actors are millionaires and actors are not. And sometimes they see the networks and say ‘look how he enjoys it’, but it is the only opportunity we have to be invited to a place to promote it and take everything and eat everything, because what television pays us does not give us enough to be in places like that,” said Belissa.
“Life is one”
In the conversation he insisted that he cares little about reviews of those who point out her for clinging to the Island even when it is in crisis.
“If they are going to invite me here, I am going to go and enjoy it, because life is one and because I feel like it. And you are not the one to criticize me or tell me that if the country is in this situation, what am I doing there. I feel like being there (…) And I’m not going anywhere, let them criticize me,” he snapped.
Belissa Cruz stood out first for her paper like Angélica in the soap opera Shared heartbeatswhich marked his debut on television. Later, she played Patricia in Pending mattersone of his most impressive characters.
In addition to his work in soap operashas stood out in the television film Trapsby Tony Lechuga, in the police Following the Trace and in the humorous Living from the Story.
