“We leave the happy Sofia Vergara here so that she has answers to everything”: These are the five sentences of the protagonist of “Griselda” that “disarmed” Pablo Motos

Antena 3 looks back on the “chemistry” between Sofia Vergara and Pablo Motos during the first program of 2024 “El Hormiguera”. On the other hand, the Spanish and world press reports that the protagonist of the series “Griselda” upset the 58-year-old woman from Valencia with violent answers to “rude” questions.

Videos and memes about the controversy have flooded social media since January 8, and just a day later the Spanish program’s X account reported the number of viewers it attracted at the time.

Of course, the number is large in terms of the audience, the same one that witnessed Sofia Vergara’s steps with brave and sarcastic answers in moments that were uncomfortable for some. “That means 5,100,000 saw Sofía put the misogynist Pablo Motos in his place?” commented X user Gaby Ravelo.

However, the controversy did not end there because the commotion was so great that more than a week later Pablo Motos found himself cornered and had to explain what happened to Sofia Vergara. This time he did it before the new interlocutors, Antonio Resines and Jorge Sanz.

Besides the fact that there was an “agreement” between the interviewer and the interlocutor, as Motos announced on January 17, he was exposed to the Spanish press as a “sexist” and a “misogynist”, according to the terms he used. Nuria Labari in his opinion piece for El País.

“It’s more than usual to see women keep quiet and smile on television in the face of sexist jokes or comments that aren’t funny at all,” said Labari, who later added to more controversy than was created.

“Deep down, what is required of a woman who appears on the set like the one in Anthill It is that he is not there, or at least that he does not intervene in depth and, of course, that he does not stir up the chicken coop. In this sense, Vergara did not fulfill the requirements of the script,” he continued in his text.

“We leave you a happy @sofiavergara so that you have answers to everything,” reads the Instagram account of Pikara magazine, one of the many media outlets that summarized Sofía Vergara’s controversial phrases in an interview with Pablo Motos, which were also analyzed by a leadership coach Vivi Montaya Ruiz.

Five powerful answers from Sofia Vergara

If for Nuria Labari, Sofía Vergara’s strong answers can serve as “a new mirror in which to look” for big and small women, for Vivi Montaya they are a reflection of an intelligent woman and an “excellent communicator”.

Thus, the leading coach explains which communication strategies the actress used to defend herself against Pablo Motos.

“Besides having a divine face, body, everything, she has a brilliant brain and these were the communication strategies she used,” comments the expert in the TikTok video.

1. “Ask more specific questions if you don’t want me to answer you in general”

It was the first step Sofía Vergara took to defend herself against Pablo Motos after he mentioned that he had already answered everything in one fragment of the interview.

2. “Are you asking me if I’m crazy?”

Sofía Vergara responded with this line to Pablo Motos when he mentioned the following: “There are people who play a character that is this difficult and become a little coward.”

For Montaya Ruiz, Vergara’s reaction fits the strategy classification of bad intentionswhich tries to “understand that the other person wants to say something hidden negative and all she does is bring it up and face it head on.”

3. “But what do you want? Did your hair fall out like this?”

This is how the actress answered the presenter’s question about whether she is a natural blonde. This strategy is known as redirecting criticism.

“He started attacking her and criticizing her and she identified where that same criticism was in her body and all she had to do was redirect it.”

4. “Her name is not Griselda Marcos, her name is Griselda Blanco”

Sofia Vergara used this line to refute Pablo Motos when he got the name of the character he plays wrong and after she mentioned that she had already watched the entire series.

“When people normally start arguing with facts and figures that are not true, the smartest thing the other side can do is to mislead them and say so openly,” explains Montayo, adding that this is known as error identification.

5. “Do you speak better English than me? How many Emmy nominations do you have in the United States? How many times have you been nominated for a Golden Globe, excuse me? How many times have you been nominated for a Sag Award, excuse me?”

Sofía Vergara laid out her credentials, “showing everything that supports her” to show that she is better “in a certain aspect”.

According to experts, this strategy is known as a claim to power. Sofía Vergara “became a monster that ate the leader with strategies of intelligence and power”.

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