{"id":269488,"date":"2023-05-11T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=269488"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:10:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T23:10:49","slug":"ana-de-armas-in-funko-version-made-by-hanny-made-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/ana-de-armas-in-funko-version-made-by-hanny-made-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana de Armas in funko version: Made by Hanny, Made in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hurricane of passions that was unleashed by the visit to Cuba of the actress <\/span>Ana de Armas<\/b><\/a> was about to take away an anecdote that escaped the scuffles in social media, to float safely over the toxic trenches of politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

With thousands of likes and hundreds of comments, users prevented the crossfire of opinions \u2014 often acidic and almost always vehement \u2014 about the obligations of celebrities from cornering the event: a <\/span>funko<\/b><\/a> aesthetic version of the character from <\/span>Blonde<\/span><\/i> (2022), with which the Cuban born in 1988 in the rum town of Santa Cruz del Norte and nationalized Spaniard definitively sealed her place in the star system.<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of the gift also enjoyed her minutes of fame while repeating to herself \u201cI don\u2019t believe it,\u201d reading the explosion of posts around her gift to the actress and seeing the Hollywood star herself show it pleased in her hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baptized with a Hebrew name that means favored by God, Hanny Valenciaga D\u00edaz, 27 years old, naturally loquacious and addictive industriousness and media aversion, was born in Bejucal, the town that first of all of Latin America and the Caribbean, inaugurated the railway in 1837, in a line that connected it with the capital of the colonial island and whose station has transcended more as a useful film set than a transportation point.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A microwave for a beginner<\/b><\/p>\n

Whoever traces an artist in Hanny\u2019s family will waste their time. There isn\u2019t one. She is the first and still doesn\u2019t know why she chose that path. Things of fate, supposes the graduate of Social Communication in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is that when it comes to dolls, she is almost a self-taught sovereign. Except for specific advice obtained on YouTube and from some colleagues in WhatsApp groups, Hanny had no technical training in cold ceramics. Trial and error drove her experience, with her share of successes and failures.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, she burned the paste in the pan. There was no proper management of the cooking time of a jelly based on cornstarch, acetate, moisturizing cream, oil and vinegar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before emigrating, a colleague solved the mess. She gave her her pottery tools and a microwave, a treasure trove of civilization in which to cook the mixture without scorching it. However, timing the process was the key to success.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Epiphanies. From plasticine to funkos<\/b><\/p>\n

The origin of this story lies in Hanny\u2019s interest in recreating the world of the animated characters that she saw on television during her childhood, and her relentless desire to embody them to play with them alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI was very, very introverted. I did not like to leave the house or play outside. Just see cartoons. I was passionate about certain children\u2019s characters, but there was no way to access them as a toy. They were not sold in stores, nor did I have relatives abroad to send them to me,\u201d she recalls during a long talk with <\/span>OnCuba<\/b> in her Havana apartment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The temporary solution to her playful demands was found in plasticine. She was 11 years old when she tried to reproduce Bolek and Lolek, also Lilo and Stitch, Elpidio Vald\u00e9s, Tom and Jerry; some characters from the Mexican series <\/span>Una pel\u00edcula de huevos<\/span><\/i>, and D\u2019artac\u00e1n. Among others, they were her first epiphanies.<\/span><\/p>\n