Since yesterday he has been on the small screen starring in Damm Lemon’s new commercial, Variar, which was filmed a few weeks ago in Tossa de Mar (la Selva) and which invites you to enjoy the summer. Something that the actor Carlos Cuevas (Montcada i Reixac, 1995) is thinking of doing consciously.
As in the spot, in which he is seen practicing running, swimming, cycling and fencing – because, as he indicates, “in life you have to change, there are too many interesting things to do just one” – in his In real life he is also passionate about sports. “I do a lot and throughout the year. It helps me keep my head in place. I have a lot of petrol and if I don’t burn it doing sport it would stay inside me, and I would have a worse character than I have. It helps me drain things”, he reveals with that grim smile that characterizes him.
His summer, he says, will be “very quiet”. “Last year I had to travel a lot – Mexico, the Canary Islands, the Dominican Republic, Madrid… – and this year I prefer to spend it here, between Barcelona and the Empordà. I will go to the house of some friends that I have around here, and it will be a fairly quiet and homely summer. I am very pleased that it is so.”
And it can come true because the actor is filming these months in Barcelona, ??where he lives. “I’m playing a secondary character, which allows me more mobility. I can’t go very far or be untraceable, but I can escape within an hour and a half by car.” The time he needs to settle in the Empordà, an area he knows well, since despite the fact that he doesn’t have a home there, he has friends who do. “I really like the interior, as it allows you to enjoy the tranquility and at the same time you are very close to the sea”. Faced with the summer crowds on the beaches, Carlos prefers to get lost in the Gola del Ter, “a quite unspoiled natural space, even in summer”.
Among the activities he will do in these hot weeks are swimming, something he loves to do, running – “it is a regular plan in the summer before the sun goes down”, riding a motorbike – without running, just for a volt–, write and read “a lot, a lot, a lot, but not on the beach because I get stressed”. With a degree in Literature, he considers himself “a bookworm”. “I read tocs and dense things and on the beach I don’t concentrate”, he confesses. Among his latest readings are essays such as El fin del amor, by Eva Illouz, No seas tú mismo, by Eudald Espluga and Minors and migrants, by Marina Sonadellas. There will also be time for some relaxed social life with friends and going to a concert or music festival.
Another of his passions is surfing, which is why one of his summer destinations so far has been closely linked to this sport. Looking for the waves, he has explored countries and places such as Indonesia, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, the United States, the Basque Country, Galicia… “Now I really like going to the coast of Morocco because they say it’s a lot good surfing, but that will be later”.
When he looks back, he remembers his childhood summers in Montcada, in a neighborhood at the foot of the Hill, where he was born and raised. “They were very quiet, very homely, sweating a lot; in the morning I would read and play at home and in the afternoon I would go out to the park and meet the neighbors to play ball. In my house we never had a second residence, although we did try to escape somewhere for a few weeks”. But his childhood summers weren’t like everyone else’s. His career began at just 5 years old as an advertisement model; at 7 he made his debut in the film La mujer de hielo; and his face, even as a child, became popular with the Ventdelplà series. “I’ve never had a three-month summer like most students.”
Looking to the future, he has a pending subject: he would like to go on a solo trip. “I have traveled only for work, but not for pleasure. And now I feel like doing it. I want to go to Cuba, it is a country that interests me and I want to go there before it becomes another Cuba. In addition, there is a very interesting film school where I would like to take a course on film directing, something I want to end up doing”.
He politely dodges the more personal questions. And on whether he imagines a future summer as a father, he assures that “I have to say that I see myself more as an uncle or godfather than a father. At the moment it is not part of my plans to have children and the truth is that I don’t feel like it either. I like children, but I like them for a while. I enjoy my friends’ children but when I go home I think, ‘ugh, what fun'”.
