Very 21st century but at this time there are still sectors clinging to imposing canons of beauty that, fortunately, many refuse to continue reproducing. In the entertainment industry, Michelle Rodríguez, Yuridia, Bárbara Torres, Yalitza Aparicio, are some exemplary women who have said enough and empower us with their actions.
But those archaic rules have not only fallen on them. Some men have also been affected by not fitting into the pre-established mold, as happened to the actor Alberto Estrella, who was offered to pay him to physically transform him without taking into account the great talent he possesses.
Recognized as a Mexican theater, film and television actor, Estrella has participated in more than 20 plays and more than 100 film productions in his little more than four decades of career. He has played multiple characters, but the villainous roles are the ones he plays best. However, although he feels satisfaction when interpreting strong-willed characters, he once confessed that he could not explain why he was almost always chosen to be the villain of the story.
“In acting life can be recreated, also over time I discovered that the characters allow the actor to have different facets, something that cannot be done much in real life”, said in an interview with The universal.
Role that makes, role that imposes for the security that it transmits. How to forget him in his interpretation of Guerrero Águila in the promo for the 1986 Mexico World Cup, in which he traversed space-time from pre-Hispanic Mexico to modernity, where he also demonstrated his dance skills that were also questioned.
Even with those prejudices that he faced from the beginning of his career, nothing had prepared him for the day that a producer reviewed him with the idea of sending him to cosmetic surgery.
“They recommended me for one of the first projects (on television) and they said ‘yes, it does’, and then this woman quotes me in her office, and she starts ‘nose, yes, please, you need it’ and wrote down, ‘a a little more chin… it seems to me that here we are going to open the eyes a little more’. And I looked at her with horror because I was convinced, they paid me for the operation, in addition, that I was going to have surgery because the bags, because my eyes were very small, if the nose was very wide and needed, if the chin needed to be split…”, he told the program Mimi with you.
(They wanted to transform me) into someone that I was not!, or what was believed that a television actor should be, which is a prejudice. Fortunately, I had that formation of ‘accept yourself as you are, that is what you are going to offer’ and the characters emerge from you, not from the fact that you have a split beard, or the biggest cheekbones, but from within you .alberto star
As can be deduced, the actor did not accept the offer and his decision was applauded by the filmmaker Arturo Risptein —the first to give it a go in the film industry in 1986 in the film the empire of fortunea. “When Ripstein told me ‘Alberto, the camera loves you’, I said ‘yeah, I already did it’.” They worked together again Beginning and end, for which she received her first Ariel nomination.
And it is precisely that his talent is the most important compliment that Estrella has received in his life. In that same conversation with Mimi, the businessman also recalled the time he met the leading actress Marga López, for whom he felt deep admiration and, without knowing it, it was mutual.
Only that Argentina reached more: she gave her the Ariel that she obtained for Mexico room in 1949 by not obtaining the statuette for his acting work.
In a later interview, Estrella assured that his physique would only alter it if the character demands it, otherwise he would continue to be as he is..
“If the character needs to be shaved, if the character needs to lose weight or gain weight, I am always in favor of the actor having to do everything so that the character, the character is credible and credible before the people.”