In 2018 the “#MeToo” movement landed in Mexico with the complaint by the actress of “Nosotros Los Nobles” against the former producer of Televisa Gustavo Loza
Karla Souza spoke about her retirement (Photo: Instagram/@ karlasouza)
The organized women’s movement has become one of the biggest trends in recent years due to the endless complaints about abuse, manipulation, violence and, unfortunately, the main one, sexual abuse that hundreds of men have historically exerted on them.< /p>
After an apparent retirement from show business and public life of one of the most promising actresses in the history of new Mexican cinema, as well as a pioneer in Mexico of the movement #MeToo, Karla Souza spoke about everything that happened at that time and what were the reasons for making this choice that today keeps her somewhat distant from the country that once saw her succeed in 2013 with the blockbuster film < b>Nosotros Los Nobles.
During her recent visit to Madrid, on the occasion of the Platino Awards, the actress granted a candid interview with Linet Puente, for the program Ventaneando, where he spoke for the first time about his decision to keep his private life apart from the public one: “I continued working and perhaps I retired from the media, because we well know how hard it is to be in the eye of the hurricane ”, he confessed.
The #METoo movement exposed all kinds of violence against women (Photo: EFE/Mario Guzmán)
The actress began to receive a lot of media attention when she was expecting the birth of her firstborn, so she decided to break the silence about the act of physical and mental violence that had been exerted on her. This situation, as she confessed, led her to make a decision that made her have many lessons: “You tell me: ‘You disappeared’, yes, It was my own decision to leave, because they hurt me a lot, it was very painful for me to live that time, the way they talked about it and it’s something I learned and I appreciate it, because I learned a lot.”
Karla Souza, who has also participated in films such as What is the child’s fault?, We all want someone and Returns are not accepted < /i>-next to Eugenio Derbez– acknowledged that although it was a very uncomfortable episode in her career, it has a very special meaning for her: “It is a very strong lesson to go on and see the women who came to me to thank me and to tell me how they had I helped by sharing, it was what I put in my heart and that is why I did it”.
The producer no longer works for Televisa
It was in 2018, when the actress confessed in an interview with Carmen Aristegui that she suffered sexual harassment from of a director at the beginning of his career: “He is a very charismatic person, who is doing very well in his career and is doing very well in his job; however, I came to this set that is in a location and by chance They take me to a hotel, the cast is staying in another hotel and I ask, who else is here in this hotel? They tell me: ‘Just you and the director’”, were words that the actress chose to share her testimony.
The actress’s new statements have provoked a new reaction in social network users, since in 2018 the situation was different from how the entire movement was go now, mainly in Mexico due to the new wave of violenceagainst millions of women who now do not hesitate to raise their voices, replicating something that various celebrities started in the past.
Karla is now full EFE/Peggy Sirota/ABC
“I think hardly anyone takes up what Karla Souza did at the time, which although it was very scandalous, I think it was left alone in that area: the gossip of an actress talking about a producer of Televisa”. “Yes, the company left him, but too bad for her that she literally never returned to entertainment as she was at the time, especially when she was having all the success in the world, although I really didn’t like her movies,” they wrote in < i>Twitter.