“The world has already turned to see us and knows what we bring to the table, now we need to realize that,” said actress Ana Brenda Contreras.
At an event to showcase the new wave of audiovisual content in Spanish, Mexican actresses Zuria Vega, Ana Brenda Contreras and Ana Claudia Talancón Yesterday they applauded the multiculturalism that the industry is experiencing and the power of Latino representation.
“It goes without saying that ours (of Latinos) is cool (pretty) or that it is fashionable. The world has already turned to see us and knows what we bring to the table, now we need to realize that”, He replied to Efe Contreras on his way through the red carpet of the platform of streaming Starzplay held in Mexico City.
“Cultural diversity is needed in audiovisual projects and diversity of industries,” Vega said in turn, applauding the globalization that platforms have brought in terms of background and form in series and films.
“Before to work in another country you had to move in search of opportunities, today with the platforms it is incredible to be able to send your video with your audition and you can go to Chile, Spain, the United States, we are connected,” added the actress.
For his part, Talancón, who from a very young age established himself as an icon of the new Mexican cinema, highlighted how much he enjoys seeing the name of his country aloud when it comes to content and the performances of his teammates.
“With Mexican talent, around the world, more and better projects are being done,” said Talancón.
On his way through the red carpet, the Colombian actor Sebastian Eslava, said that “the golden age of Spanish-speaking television” is being lived thanks to the cultural openness that the industry has provided and the support of these new platforms to show the work.
Female representation
Contreras is the protagonist of the series All the blood, a dark production full of suspense and magic in which you will play a police officer.
Vega and Talancón are part of the project The shelter, a science fiction story recorded in Chile; Carolina Gaytan she is a tough journalist in the series Malayerba while Maggie Civantos is a mother with unshakable strength in Express.
In addition, Ximena Romo, Ilse Salas and Bárbara López give a twist to the history of beauty pageants with Miss 89 by breaking all existing stereotypes of women.
As Romo explained, series like the one in which he participates and the others that were presented on Tuesday night, They have contributed to giving women a voice and a dignified and more faithful representation than the male gaze with which they were portrayed for years.
“With all the movements that have emerged and the current projects, we realize that women have been silent all this time and intimidated and it is time to use our voice, to say what we think and open the speech,” explained Romo.
Nevertheless, Ilse Salas, who claims to have always been surrounded by “strong and powerful” women, agreed that the new wave of feminism that exists in these times is also reflected on the screens.
“2021 can not leave aside such an important issue,” he considered.
Finally, Iván Escobar, creator of the series Vis a vis (2015) and Express, soon to be released, assured that it is essential to have the feminine vision present when writing the characters, something that was not done before in the industry.
“If something has changed in current fictions, it is that for the first time the gaze is not imposed. Before we were men writing about women and now women writing about women are fundamental, “said Escobar, who is proud to say that most of the protagonists of his series are women. (I)
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