On December 10, the day of the Virgin of Loreto, Patroness of Aviation, European Flyers, the pilot training center organized a massive graduation ceremony during which among the 200 new pilots of planes, helicopters and drones was the actor and … writer, Maxi Iglesias. A challenge that started as a documentation task his first and best-selling novel ‘Artificial Horizon’ (Roca editorial), a thriller published last May and whose idea was born during an exhibition on an airfield in Los Angeles.
He started by taking theoretical courses to have ideas, anecdotes to tell in the book and he took the exams and passed them and that allowed him to fly; “If I was flying, I could write about this feeling and it would be much more complete. I faced 50 hours of flight in European Flyers, The first 20 hours I went there with an instructor then I flew alone“, explained a satisfied Maxi, to whom this experience of flying alone in a Cessna from Cuatro Vientos allowed him to give greater credibility and to use the most precise aeronautical terminology for his novel, the plot of which concerns a plane hijacking. “The protagonist is a woman who devotes herself to something that has nothing to do with me. And for this there is documentation, research work on what a textile company is and at the same time I bring first-hand aeronautical knowledge”, said the young author when promoting the novel. Now that he has his wings, he intends to continue flying as a hobby because he has many friends with a pilot’s license and they have become a community.
New illusion
Although the actor is very reserved about his private life, he admitted a few months ago on Vicky Martín Berrocal’s podcast that he was in love: “Yes, I am in love. I am in love with this security, the security that she possesses and that she was able to transmit to me by opening the channel. At first it wasn’t easy, she had to place things…I fell in love with it even more,” she said.
Maxi reportedly breaks up with shipyard heiress and is excited about his co-star, actress Susana Abaitua
He was referring to Ione Astondoa, 31, heiress and director of Spain’s largest luxury yacht shipyard. Together they could be seen last summer at a nautical event in Palma de Mallorca and in some affectionate images that the actor shared on his social networks. In an interview that Ione gave to Forbes magazine to talk about her experience working in the family business, she also explained how she dealt with being the girlfriend of someone as popular as Maxi Iglesias; “I try to wear it with the naturalness that also marks my professional life and to keep my private life outside of it”. Maxi also admitted in the “Alone with…” podcast that maintaining a relationship with him is not easy. “There are many trips where you can’t bring a companion, filming locations where you can’t have anyone nearby, or marquee trips where places are limited.”
This is perhaps the reason why this beautiful love story did not come to fruition. Or at least that is what is gaining more and more strength and that is that the couple would have broken up. Both circles prefer not to comment on the subject. It was on the show ‘D Corazón’ that his co-host Javier de Hoyos revealed that he was filming ‘Nuda property’, a film directed by Alberto Utrera. sparks could have flown between the Madrid actor and his co-staralso the actress Susana Abaitua. Hoyos went further, claiming they were seen kissing at a Madrid nightclub. The film was shot between Tenerife and Madrid and finished last August. The two actors play a couple who buy a house in bare ownership, a legal figure which makes them owners, but without the right to use the house as long as the former owner, who retains the usufruct, lives.
Maxi Iglesias and Susana Abaitua
At 35, Susana Abaitua has been crowned as one of the best performers on the current scene. In October, she released her latest film “A Ghost in the Battle”, directed by JA Bayona, in which she plays an undercover Civil Guard agent within ETA. And the Basque actress already He fell in love with the audience thanks to his role in the acclaimed series Patria.based on the novel by Fernando Aramburu, premiered on HBO.