Majida Issa: Dealing with Casting Rejection and Frustration in the Entertainment Industry

2023-05-12 01:28:18

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Beyond the Platinum award for her performance in ‘Kidnapping News’, the last few months have not been easy for her. She tells how she has dealt with casting rejection and frustration.

11/5/2023

Majida Issa’s followers might imagine that everything in her life is perfect, even more so following winning the Platinum award, one of the most important in the film industry in Europe, in the category of Best Supporting Female Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries, for his role in News of a kidnapping playing the journalist Paola Turbay.

There are also those who may think that following performances like in Without breasts, there is no paradise, production in which he acted as an antagonist, La Diabla, what rains down are job offers. But it’s not like that. In conversation with the television program I know everythingfrom channel 1, the 41-year-old actress and singer revealed that she has been unemployed for a year now.

“Since I did”News of a kidnappingwhich was in May of last year, I have been out of work for almost a year. I think that the most difficult thing when you are not working is that you feel that nothing is flowing and frustration because suddenly the projects that you wanted did not come out ”, he explained.

Despite the international prestige that Majida Issa has, she did not hide how difficult it is to deal with periods of unemployment, not only economically, but also mentally, because she can lose confidence in herself.

“When you have five or six”castings‘ and the answer is no, no, no, I think the most difficult thing is to control your head and say, ‘Okay, it’s not for me. Breathe,’” she commented.

Majida Issa also told, openly, what it cost her to return to acting due to the stoppage that occurred in the world of the film and television industry due to the pandemic.

Among others, the actress was also asked regarding the feeling when she saw herself as the winner of the Platinum award and confessed that she really did not believe that she would get it.

“You don’t know how happy I feel to have this award, but above all for this character and with this incredible product, which is News of a kidnapping. But I didn’t expect her to be the winner of that category because I have great admiration for my colleagues and I honestly thought that this award was for Amparo Noguera. I don’t know why one never thinks it’s for one. I would have loved to think that it was for me, to have prepared the speech”, expressed Majida Issa.

Granddaughter of the well-remembered actress Teresa Gutiérrez, Majida Issa considers herself privileged, because without intending to, in her acting career she has come across characters who have required her to sing, such as the artist Helenita Vargas from Valle del Cauca.

“I am an actress who sings, although my approach to music was through musical theater, Well, I studied theater, before doing television. And, little by little, characters who sang came to me, like when I did the bioseries the golden snore y Alejandra Guzman”, recounted the actress in WEEKjust a week ago.

Besides, for seven years he has been part of the showIroning the spite’which begins a new season next May at the Astor Plaza Theater in Bogotá.

And that decanting through music has taken her down unsuspected paths. That was how she ended up nominated for a Latin Grammy in the category of best ranchera music album, with nocturnal. “I might not believe it. Music has brought me very beautiful surprises, because I don’t have a record label, I work independently, but my characters have taken me through all genres”.

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