SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Rafael (Felito) Lahera is one of the essential actors of Cuban cinema and theater; his versatility has left us transcendental characters.
In the theatre and television scene, his ability to split into two roles has led him to star in Teatro de arte popular, The corsair and the abbess; but also Don Juan Tenoriodirected by Tony Diaz; Lazaritoa monologue by Yulky Cary; He has stolenby Abraham Rodriguez.
He began his career in the groups Anaquillé and Teatro Caribeño, directed by Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, and at the Teatro El Público, under the direction of Carlos Díaz.
Thus, he shook the audience with That’s right if you think so, by Pirandello; Seagull, by Chekhov; or Requiem for Yariniby Carlos Felipe.
Without a doubt, one of his memorable works came with the cinema and from the hand of Humberto Solás, in a character of Cuba neighborhood which earned him the award for best male actor at the Santo Domingo International Film Festival.
In Cuba neighborhoodthe latest feature film by Humberto Solás, Felito Lahera gave life to Santos, the man in love who loses his wife and repudiates the son who is born, a performance that earned him long applause from the audience at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.
A tiger, Ticket to paradise, The return, August, The oldesthave also had the excellence of the actor.
Lahera left Cuba to live in Colombia for about four years, and later moved to Miami, where she currently lives.
Felito Lahera, yearning for freedom
Recently, interviewed by actress María Karla Rivero for her program “La casa de Maka” in Miami, the actor expressed the nostalgia he feels for Cuba, where he cannot return.
When asked by the actress what made him sad, he replied: “I am very saddened by the separation from my family. I am very saddened by the separation from my homeland.”
Felito Lahera said that he went to Colombia on vacation and there a job opportunity presented itself that he did not dismiss because the conditions in Cuba were difficult. Thus, having to separate himself from his family, he went to pursue professional opportunities that were limited on the Island.
However, he said that their place should be in their country of birth, where no one should leave out of fear or lack of conditions.
“I think we should all be where we were born, where our ancestors are. I don’t know where my mother’s grave is. I don’t know where they’re going to bury me,” he said.
“They have taken everything from us”
For him, the greatest harm that the Cuban regime has done is separating families and “separating us from our history, from our culture.”
“They have taken everything from us. It’s not like they are taking away your house, it’s not like they are taking away your sugar mill. It’s not like they are taking away anything. I had nothing, there was nothing to take away from me. However, they took so much from me. They took away my neighborhood. They took away my friends. But they are not going to take away my Cubanness. They can take everything away from me. But I am from there,” he said.
Outside of Cuba, Felito Lahera recorded soap operas and television series such as The queen of the south (2009)The frog’s sign (2010), Escobar, the patron saint of evil (2012), The Lady (2013), where he was even able to imitate the Colombian accent.
In Miami, he has performed sketches and works alongside other Cuban actors and actresses, such as Carmen Daisy.
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2024-07-19 10:36:54
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