20 years have passed since the actor was the target of a class act during the filming of the famous Mexican film
Luis Fernando Peña made his film debut more than two decades ago, and recently lamented that today the number of followers of an actor is more important than his quality (IG: luisfernandop_mx)
The Mexican film < b>Loving you hurtsis turning 20 in 2022. It is a film that has already established itself as a new classic of national cinema and means to Luis Fernando Peñaa “before and after” in his personal life and in his professional career. And it is that the film also starring Martha Higareda, Ximena Sariñana and Armando Hernández marked a generation and remains very fresh in the collective memory, to the extent that it continues to be the subject of memes and other current expressions .
The film directed by Fernando Sariñana addresses a love drama framed by social differences, a kind of Romeo and Juliet of its time, according to specialized critics, so topics likeracism, classism and discrimination are no strangers to the actor, who recently joined the contest The stars dance on Today.
The actor, who claims not to have been left without a role in his career due to racial discrimination, was a victim of it during the filming of the well-remembered film, when he was recording with Armando Hernández at the facilities of the Santa Fe Shopping Center, in Mexico City.
The actor assured that he has not been a victim of professional discrimination (Photo: File)
“When we did Loving you hurts Armando and I were kicked out of a sports store, an anecdote we always tell, that they kicked us out because we were badly dressed, we brought the costumes of the characters and they kicked us out for that , but really that I have not been left without a character for something like that, no, never, it has happened to me. I say this on a personal note: I think that when you understand that this is how you are and that this is how 60 or 70% of the population of this country is,we have to take advantage of it instead of complaining about it,” he said from his car outside Televisa, where he was intercepted by a group of reporters.
Said anecdote “makes laugh” to the actor, who assures that if something like this were to happen again, he would not remain silent. “These are anecdotes that make us laugh, but not because of the fact but because eight days later we have to film inside the same square, in front of the same store, and the security people realize ‘oh look, it was the actors’, then they treated us like kings now, it was what made us laugh, how suddenly being social can determine what you do for a living, I’ve always said it, I’m just like the population in general, I’m just an actor, and I do appear on TV and you become a public figure, but that’s not why I don’t have an independent life,” he added.
“Renata” and “Ulysses” they met again almost 20 years later, in 2020 (Instagram: luisfernandop:mx)
“It was totally discrimination on the part of the store security, it has never happened again and if it were to happen I would obviously make it public, it is something that we have to put our finger on and say ‘enough is enough’”
Regarding his collaboration with the project “Poder prieto”, an initiative raised by Maya Zapata and Tenoch Huerta in order to make racism visible in the artistic and theatrical world, Luis Fernando elaborated on the subject :
“I was there, I think that there are very important things that have to be taken care of, this part of racism is something that I have always said and always that I have opportunity I have spoken it. We are a country where we are suddenly racist, yes, but I think that there is nothing more racist than being racist with your own people, what do I mean by this? As long as we continue to lose the respect and devotion that our indigenous peoples deserve, we will never really grow in that aspect, so that type of thing has to be eradicated”, concluded the also actor of Perfume de violets, another new national classic.