She appears on the small screen starring in the new Damm Lemon commercial, Variar, which was filmed a few weeks ago in Tossa de Mar and invites you to enjoy the summer. Something that the actor Carlos Cuevas (Montcada i Reixac, 1995) plans to do.
As in the ad, where he is seen 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 real life he is also passionate about sports . “I do a lot and throughout the year. It helps me keep my head sane. I have a lot of gasoline and if I don’t burn it doing sports it would stay inside me, and I would have a worse character than I have. It helps me drain things ”, he reveals with that mischievous smile that characterizes him.
His summer, he says, will be “very calm.” “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 visit the houses of some friends that I have scattered around here, and it will be a fairly calm and homely summer. I really want it to be like that.”
And it will be able to come true because the actor is filming these months in Barcelona, ??where he lives. “I’m doing a supporting character, which allows for more mobility. I can’t go very far or be unlocatable, but I can escape an hour and a half by car”. The time that he needs to plant himself in the Empordà, a region that he knows well, since although he does not have a house there, he has friends who do. “I really like the interior, since 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 fairly virgin natural space, even in summer.”
Among the activities that she is going to practice this summer is swimming, something she loves to do, running – “it is a usual plan in summer to do it before the sun sets”, riding a motorcycle – without running, just for a ride -, write and read “a lot, a lot, a lot, but not on the beach because I get stressed”.
Graduated in Literature, he considers himself “a bookworm”. “I read billets 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, Don’t be yourself, by Eudald Espluga and Menors i migrants, by Marina Sonadellas. There will also be time for a little relaxed social life with friends and attending a concert or music festival.
Another of his passions is surfing, which is why his summer destinations have been closely linked to this sport. Looking for the waves he has explored Indonesia, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, the United States, the Basque Country, Galicia… “Now I really want to go to the Moroccan coast because they say that there is very good surfing there, but that will be later.”
When he looks back, he remembers his summers as a child in Montcada, in a neighborhood at the foot of the Turó, where he was born and raised. “They were very calm, 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 have never had a second home, although we did try to escape for a week somewhere.
But his summers as a child were not like the rest. Her career began with just 5 years as an advertisement model; At the age of 7, she made her debut in the film La mujer de hielo; and his face, even as a child, became popular with the Ventdelplà series. “I have never had a three-month summer like most students.”
Looking towards the future, he has a pending subject: he would like to take a trip alone. “I have traveled only for work but not for pleasure. And now I want to do it. I want to go to Cuba alone, it is a country that interests me and I want to go before it becomes another Cuba. There is also a very interesting film school where I would like to take a course on film directing, something I want to end up doing”.
The more personal questions he kindly dodges. And about whether he imagines a future summer as a father, he assures that “I have to say that I see myself more as a tiet or a father than a father. At the moment it is not in 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’ kids but when I go home I’m like, ‘Ugh, that’s nice.'”
