William Levy Suing Doctor Who Implanted Hair On Him

Cuban actor William Levy is considering suing the doctor who performed a hair transplant on him in 2012. The procedure, which cost the actor around $14,000, didn't turn out the way Levy expected, so he may take Dr. Julio F. Gallo to court.

Listin Diario reported that the actor's drama began back in 1998. He was only 18 when he gradually started losing amounts of hair that were not normal for such a young man. He tried to cover the loss of hair by constantly changing his looks, chosing styles that would hide the hair loss. 

Levy began his career as an actor in telenovelas in Miami, working in productions for Venevisión Internacional that were transmitted originally in the U.S. by the Hispanic network Univisón. His debut was in "Olvidarte Jamás," starring Sonya Smith. He is currently playing Damián Fabre in "La Tempestad," where he co-stars with Ximena Navarrete.

In playing Damián, a young handome captain of a ship called La Tempestad, Levy put on hair extensions, which made him terribly uncomfortable. The actor told Cadena Tres that it takes two hours for the make-up department to get him ready each day before shooting. "Now I understand women," he said about the annoyance of having to spend so much time getting ready. "I am getting used to them now, but at the beginning I was terribly uncomfortable with the extensions," he said.

Though he admitted not liking them, he explained he has the duty of wearing them anyway due to being actor and that it is a part of what's required of him. "I'm an actor, I have to do these kind of things. I lend my body and my image to the character I'm playing," he said on Cadena Tres.

Levy also took a look back at the years when he used to model and remembered the experience with distaste, claiming he never really enjoyed it. "I modelled for a year and a half, back when I was 21, 22 years old, and I hated it. I felt like I was doing something that I didn't want to be doing. So, I'm an actor. I like to change my appearance, change my personality," he stated, referring to his passion for interpreting different characters and shaping himself specially for each of them in the own particular way they may require.