His news death of Adan Canto has taken the entertainment world by storm in both English and Spanish.
The 42-year-old Mexican actor He kept it a secret that he had cancer of the appendixas confirmed by Deadline and Variety.
The Mexican-born artist was part of the hit drama series “The Cleaning Lady” and had planned to participate in the recording of the third season that started last December, but his health prevented him from doing so.
Adan Canto: the Mexican actor who made his way in Hollywood
Adam Canto He was a native of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuilaand grew up in Del Rio, Texas, according to Variety.
When he was 16, he made the decision to leave home and moved to Mexico City where explore opportunities as a musicianaccording to a Daily Mail review.
But later he realized that acting got him much more attention and focused on it. Discovered for a major character in the 2013 series ‘The Following’.
” I never said I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.. I did not know. I thought I was going to be a singer and a musician,” Canto explained of his transition to acting in a February 2013 interview with Collider.
“That’s what I’ve done for most of my life the music, in Mexico, just didn’t work“He confessed then.
“So I devoted myself to acting and fell in love with it. It was incredible! It was a great safe place to vent. And then I found out I could do that, and I saw a future in it.”
“Whatever interested me, I could apply in this field I liked it and it worked“He confessed 10 years ago.
Adan Canto confessed about moving from Mexico to the US
In January 2022, Canto also talked about what it was like transitioning his career from Mexico to the United States while trying not to be pigeonholed.
“To be honest, I don’t know if I had formulated a specific strategy to deal with it,” he told the Observer.
” I was honest with myself and with my team throughout the process. Obviously, I’ve read certain characters or scripts where I’m immediately like, “Of course not! No!” revealed.
” I know the culture of northern Mexico (because) I grew up on it, so I can understand when someone is struggling to find a reality that’s far from the real thing, so I honestly stayed with the honesty within myself,” he shared.
“I didn’t mean to I do anything that didn’t seem right to me or didn’t feel rightand I think I’ve been blessed with good opportunities and fought for other opportunities that weren’t necessarily given to me,” she said of how she chose the characters she played in Hollywood without falling into stereotypes.
In the US he appeared in ‘Mixology’, ‘Narcos’, ‘Blood and Oil’ and ‘Second Chance’. His first relevant film role was that of the superhero Sunspot in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’, starring Hugh Jackman in 2014.
After his sudden death, he leaves a widow, actress Stephanie Ann Canto, and two children: Roman Alder (3) and Eve Josephine (1).
Source: univision
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