For Maxi Iglesias (Madrid, 34 years old), this year which has just ended must be particularly exciting. The actor, having overcome the label of pretty face which brought him fame in the series Physics or chemistrydebuted in 2025 in its first soap opera, Artificial horizon. Although he took the craft of writing seriously enough to document his story – the narrative action of which takes place over a few hours on a private flight – he decided to take on the role of someone who pilots a plane. In fact, he had an airplane pilot’s license. Today, during a ceremony organized on December 10 at the European Flyers pilot training center in Madrid, the actor obtained, along with 200 other people, the diploma of pilot of planes, helicopters and drones.
In an interview with EL PAÍS published in June, Iglesias explained that the history of Artificial horizon it had been brewing for years in his head, during “a moment of changing opportunity.” “If it occurred to me to write characters that I could play, that I would like to interpret and for those who have never called me, and who are also involved in a story that I would like to be a part of,” he explained. The protagonist of Valerie he tells me that he helped the writer and author of the hit Netflix series, Elisabet Benavent, who introduced someone to his editorial “and then he did it all.”
The actor, who also has the title of boat boss, explained the reason for his passion for surfing at sea, in addition to land: “Out of curiosity, to want to understand, to discover, to please my child.” And bromeó: “Now I have the peace of mind that, if I am not well, I will go to Dubai taking a plane or a boat with Arab jeques (…). Maybe I would earn a lot more, and above all I would be at sea and in the sky, which is my passion.”
At the end of May, on the occasion of the publication of the book, the interpreter of Fall back shared a video on his Instagram profile – where he currently has more than two million followers – to promote the soap opera: “I am happy to be able to decide that Artificial horizon you are available. “It took many hours of effort and at many points I thought I wouldn’t be able to do it because I couldn’t compare it with my real job, that of acting,” began the message that accompanied the footage, in which the actor and pilot could be seen flying above the sky at the controls of a plane. You will reach the end with him, you will envelop yourself with the strength that allows you to achieve your goal. it also tells, in part, of people who travel through the sky…”, continues the text which shows the constancy of his emotion for what he has accomplished.
For his first book – which he assures will not be the last – the writer, pilot and actor had “the confidence of Roca Editorial”. The habla description of a soap opera with “an eminently cinematic and visual style (…) A succession of views which put on the table the complex complex of affairs, the power struggles and the personal traumas which lead the protagonists towards a surprising end”.
In October, the churches were there podcast Personal bags that he suffered during the movement of Physics or chemistry and that he had suffered before, in the school where he had studied before embarking on interpretation. “With me, I was a lot of bad people at school, I was very happy intimidation. I’m not happy with that, when I leave the real school, it gives me intimidation to the school of lies”, he explained to the microphone of Victoria Martín. The madrileño also assured that, years later, one of his companions from the famous series asked him for an apology: “One of them, that today I believe you are my friend, I asked for forgiveness and everything. I say to myself: ‘Tío, the truth is that we have a lot of anger, we send it to you.’
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