Two years after her Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her debut in Rome, Yalitza Aparicio is very clear that her goal now is to give visibility to the diversity that exists in Mexico and the world, but she also knows that the performance if it’s yours.
In an interview with El Sol de México, the protagonist of Rome assured that she will resume her career as an actress, so she now keeps taking classes to improve her performance.
“Of course we’re going back to acting. I’ve also taken some time to be preparing for different things. It’s very complicated, my respect for all the actors. But here we are, trying to put ourselves in every day. “, he assured.
He confesses that he had plans to act again in 2020, but the pandemic postponed them all. “We’re watching when they resume but I hope it’s very soon. I’ve also noticed that in cinema everything takes its time films aren’t made overnight and sometimes take years.”
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Before returning to the set of filming, the Mexican will be part of the project Pau Pau Ara Ara, A documentary series that will expose cases of Latin American women who have suffered gender violence and with the participation of Garbage vocalist Shirley Manson, Spanish actress Ester Expósito and Daniela Vega, star of the Oscar-winning Chilean film A fantastic woman, Who will also act as a producer.
He maintains his activism
After becoming the revelation actress after her participation in the film of Alfonso Cuarón, Yalitza Aparicio focused her efforts as an activist.
Today it is clear that its main goal is to make visible the diversity that exists in Mexico and the world, as a long list of social problems is still being discussed, all of which lead to the same point: discrimination.
“Regardless of the sector you are in, you have always suffered discrimination: If because you are a woman, a man, from the LGBT or indigenous community … there is always something that leads the rest of society to discriminate against you. And that is it. “what I’ve always tried to talk about, because they are not different struggles. All in all what we are looking for is respect, one of the greatest values that we have always been taught from house to house and that it seems that as we grow we forget.”
Through platforms such as Unesco, where she is an ambassador of Good Will; in an audiobook she made in late 2020 or on her YouTube channel, the native of Tlaxiaco in Oaxaca wants to raise the voice of communities that rarely have a chance to express themselves.
“As for Unesco, I’ve always been on the lookout for what is happening, to occupy my platforms to share these messages that need to get to more corners. In the case of YouTube, I’m grateful to the people who follow me. because here I try to share things that we sometimes don’t know or that we have always had and that we had not valued. “
Ask AMLO to break the pact
As well as other actresses, activists, writers, politicians and women have expressed their dissatisfaction with the candidacy of Felix Salgado Macedoni as a candidate for governor of Guerrero for allegations of rape and sexual harassment against him, Yalitza Aparicio joined the so-called and asked Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reconsider his position on the case.
“(I tell the president) Please break the pact, analyze the situation well. And not just him, but all the people who accompany him because while we know this is the face, there are many people. that surround him today that they can advise him. “
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He considered that those who aspire to a public office in our country “should be people who really represent us, it’s not just about going and doing what they want.”
“I also agree that this pact should be broken, because we have always fought for respect, especially for women, and I think that if someone is going to reach such an important position it has to be a person who has respected it,” he said. to say .
Life after Rome
Yalitza fondly remembers the phenomenon she experienced between 2018 and 2019 parading the red carpets of the major Hollywood film awards ceremonies. She now feels more comfortable watching what happens during the current awards season from her TV, without the nerves in between.
“I remember in the Golden Globes someone who was at the same table as me saying to me, ‘Listen, how calm you are, you don’t get nervous or anything.’ And I said ‘In fact I don’t.’ I stopped here because I feel like my feet are shaking so much that I’m going to fall, ” he says with a laugh.
The actress will relive the experience of the Golden Globes but now as the host of the pre-show TNT Meeting Point which will be seen on February 28 on this channel from 6:30 p.m. Yalitza will return to driving after participating in the Latin Grammy ceremony last November.
“It’s a wonderful experience. From what I’ve seen it won’t be like it was with the Latin Grammys. It will change the dynamic a bit but we’ll keep learning with all this wonderful team.”
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He is already a member of the Academy
In 2020, Yalitza Aparicio received a direct invitation from the Hollywood Academy to join her ranks and vote in the upcoming Academy Awards. Still surprised, the actress remembers that after being filled with happiness she worried about her performance because she felt she was not prepared enough.
“I used to say, ‘Well, I’m just getting to know you, how am I going to do that to you? How do you rate this? Believe me, it took me a while to sit down and watch movie by movie,” says the teacher. preschool.
The big hurdle has been that most productions aspiring for an Oscar nomination are in English, “and you know I’m lousy about that,” he jokes.
“So if I don’t understand something I repeat it and repeat it. All this has helped me to value and find details. I ask those around me to tell me how I should rate something or what I should do. It’s a way I’m learning as I do it, it’s said to be meaningful learning. “
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One of his great allies has been Nicolás Celis, producer of Rome, Who has guided you in the details you have to observe and value. “In fact on polling day we were like ‘listen, and how do you see this?’ “I didn’t understand here.” And he was telling me to repeat and check such a thing, it’s not that he was telling me who to vote for but that he was putting me to work, ”he says with a laugh.
The actress does not hide her excitement when asked if she would vote for the Mexican film I’m not here anymore in case of being nominated in the category of Best International Film. “Híjole. A little of what I can’t say. You know where my heart is but it would be wrong to say it here,” he replies with a laugh and his face flushed.