'Élite' Actor Omar Ayuso Turns Heads Posing in a Leather Jacket... And Little Else

One reason why Ayuso returned to the show is his role as an out Muslim. "You do feel a responsibility as an actor in building up the character and conveying certain things for a character with a certain reality. There's a moral responsibility. You have to be honest; you have to start from an honest point, especially if you're talking about a minority that has been marginalized over time. Everything you do has to help them eventually get to a better place. I would say in my day-to-day life, being a gay man in Spain, it's also a responsibility I feel in how I behave myself. There's great beauty in the feedback from the fans. I think one of the few things that you can say is great from social media is that you receive messages from faraway cultures that have nothing to do with you, from people you don't know and they convey the difficulties of trying to be who they feel they are and realizing that your job may mean so much in the life of other people is something that is really rewarding."

He continued: "When building your character, you are actually building an audiovisual role model in fiction on a national and international level. Being an openly gay actor that is free in real life and in fiction is something that we need so much while growing up and also in our lives as adults. It's role models that I didn't have as much when I grew up, that my mother didn't have at all. So being able to be that role model and to play that role model is something that is really special."