In addition to being a psychologically difficult role for Cruz, it was physically demanding for him as well. “You’ll be both horrified and stunned by it, and you will walk away really respecting this woman.” “It looks like an independent, gritty type of film,” he says. “She said, ‘If you don’t play the devil, the people aren’t going to care about the victim you really have to do it!’ And I do whatever my wife says! I’m smart that way! If that’s the one message that will come out of this, it will save a lot of husband’s lives!” Cruz says, laughing.Ĭruz says that Cleveland Abducted is different from anything Lifetime has ever done. “Then she read the script and the book, and she changed her tune to, ‘Oh my God, you have to play this part!’” Cruz says. “My wife vehemently asked me not to do it,” Cruz says. The thought of Cruz playing such a repulsive character as Castro did not fly at first with his wife, Simi. She held on to her strong belief in her faith throughout the whole ordeal, and that’s what got her through.” It’s a real miracle, and she’s happy now. He physically, mentally and emotionally abused them in every way possible, and she never lost her sense of hope. She always looked toward the light at the end of the tunnel, and, she held on, and she made it! This guy was horrific he tormented, starved and beat these poor girls. All the things she went through, and she never gave up. “You’ll end up in tears reading her book. “When you play a fictional character you have lots of freedom to create, but, with this guy, the challenge was to re-create the reality, and going to that dark place in his head to tell the story wasn’t easy,” Cruz says.Ĭruz found inspiration in Knight’s astonishing tale of survival. Cruz says it was hard for him to play the demented Castro. Cruz’s latest role as heinous serial kidnapper Ariel Castro in Cleveland Abduction - the Lifetime Original Movie produced by Sony Pictures, which debuts on May 2 - will indeed be the stuff of nightmares.Ĭleveland Abduction is based on the book Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings, (Weinstein Books) authored by Castro’s first victim, Michelle Knight, who was abducted on Augas a 21-year-old single mother and later joined by Castro’s other captives, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were all brutalized at his home until they escaped on May 6, 2013. Talented actor Raymond Cruz is no stranger to playing amazing, chilling roles that leave a memorable etch in the minds of audiences no fan of the mega-hit series Breaking Bad or its highly anticipated prequel Better Call Saul can forget the ferocious Mexican drug lord Tuco Salamanca that Cruz played with such explosive aplomb. Raymond Cruz sinks to dark depths to play sinister kidnapper Ariel Castro in the new Lifetime Original Movie Cleveland Abduction on May 2 and returns as good guy detective Julio Sanchez in the popular police procedural series Major Crimes on TNT in June.
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