Mario Cimarro asks Telecinco for work and claims a blacklist is blocking him

Mario Cimarro asks Telecinco for work and denounces a blacklist that has left him without roles

On Thursday, August 6, actor Mario Cimarro, the unmistakable star of Pasión de Gavilanes, reappeared on Telecinco's El verano se mueve with a message that left no one indifferent: "I need and want to work." And behind that sentence, an argument that set off every alarm: an alleged blacklist in the American industry that would be preventing him from filming again.

The awkward return of a vanished star

Cimarro was one of the most bankable leading men of 2000s television drama. Pasión de Gavilanes aired in countless countries and made him a household name across half the planet. Now, according to what the channel itself broadcast, he is going through a difficult professional and financial situation, to the point of having to publicly ask for an opportunity.

The reaction on social media was not long in coming. Part of the audience sees the channel's hand behind this scene in the middle of the summer season. "They've probably already hired him to play the role of a beggar," the most skeptical conclude. Others, however, read the plea as a symptom of the precariousness affecting actors who have simply fallen out of fashion.

The blacklist nobody explains

The actor gave no further details. Not who is behind the list, nor why he is on it, nor what he has done to appeal it. No one in the studio pressed the issue either. The mystery hangs in the air, in that zone where soap opera and reality brush against each other: a fallen star, a blacklist, and a job request that, incidentally, has put him back in the media spotlight.

Broke or not, Mario Cimarro has managed to get the public talking about him again.