Cecilia Suárez (‘La Casa de las Flores’): “I have made peace with my age. I do not refuse to see the passage of time in my face and my body” | Fashion | S fashion

He has been crossing the Atlantic for six years, but Cecilia Suárez (Tampico, Mexico, 53 years old) does not get used to Jet Lag: “The body reminds me that I am no longer 20 years old to continue making trips with this distance and the agenda so full of work.” After triumphing in his native country and working in Hollywood, the success of THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS He gave him the opportunity to also conquer Spanish fiction. He settled in Madrid and fulfilled his purpose. The last sample of this fruitful adoption is The gardenera Netflix thriller in which he plays the mother controller of a young man (Álvaro Rico), lacking emotions, whom he pushes to become a hitman. “There are already too many years moving the fan,” says an interpreter with humility that, when he is not rolling, uses his speaker to combat gender violence globally. A struggle that admits, every day is more difficult and more necessary.

His character in The gardener It evokes the myth of the overprotective and castrating mother, which due to her excess or care defect ends up conditioning the development of her child.

I was interested in exploring a non -idealized motherhood, which we do not usually talk about. What about selfish mothers who get ahead and whose son ends up accommodating that? In addition, he had to understand that he is a hurt narcissistic, a being in pain and completely stripped of anything that can provide identity or self -recognition. Everyone who generates pain to others is also suffering.

Being a successful actress and mother, have you ever been to the dilemma of prioritizing your career over your family?

It was key to be clear that both my career and my motherhood were important, but that being a mother was more than anything. During the first nine years of my son I decided not to travel, not to move from the city. It only allowed me to go filming in summer, when he had vacations and could launch a whole mechanism to make it come true.

How complicated was all that logistics?

I succeeded thanks to the help of other women. When they ask me for this, it seems to me to point out that I know many others who also make that juggling and do not mention them. We would have to stop to reflect why all that all that runs on account of us. Women are urgently urgently needed with home, children and professional life.

What has done well to continue with the agenda full of projects despite the difficulties of many actresses to work beyond 50?

It would be petulant to say that I did something well, but I think that from a young age I have known what kind of actress I wanted to be. Being clear that mandate has been good for me. On the other hand, as the years passed, I tried to make peace with the age I am. I do not refuse to see the passage of time reflected in my face or in my body. That has also helped.

Was it difficult to devote himself to interpretation in his native country 30 years ago?

In the Suárez de Garay family, no. My sisters and I was lucky that our parents never questioned what we wanted to study. Having their support was important because I remember many dramatic art colleagues with regret because their parents told them: “You’re going to starve,” “what you have chosen is nonsense …”. That is burning you already has a weight.

Is your Madrid day to day of your routine in Mexico City very different?

Madrid gives me the opportunity to have a more relaxed pace and enjoy more time for me. Three months after moving here, my son, who was now nine years old, told me: “Mom, I think you don’t have to come back.” I asked him for three reasons to defend such overwhelming statement and he gave them very specific. He said: “Spain is very pretty, I get everywhere in 10 minutes and I can walk a little more.” I was impressed with the clarity with which I had landed. Of course, Mexico City still seems fascinating. It has so many incentives and possibilities that it is addictive.

Does your way of dressing when it is in Spain or Mexico changes a lot? Is there any trait of the Spanish in terms of fashion that inspires you?

My style changes according to the weather. I don’t like to go cold, I suffer a lot. It seems absurd to me that women are well dressed, we are asked to go cold and go uncomfortable. As for the Spanish, I really like that discreet elegance of their style.

He considered heels as an act of gender violence, but continues to take them in many red carpets.

I look, but there is always a pitched battle with my stylists, both in Spain and in Mexico. We always discuss why that object exists. And then, of course, I admit that there are heels that I like, especially the comfortable. There is something nice in them, I know that it is a contradiction, but most of the women who take them on the red carpet end them hating and loving them take them away from five minutes.

After 50, does it affect you less the pressure for always being pretty, feminine, perfect before the media?

As you turn years, you understand and negotiate certain things. For example, to go well you have to go uncomfortable. There you begin to take it better, it becomes everything more natural. And we are not always perfect. In everyday life, when we are not working, we go like all.

Elmer, his son in the series, lacks the ability to feel emotions. With everything that is happening in the world, is it an evil that ravages us more and more as a society?

There will be immunized people, but the others have to dose the information because it affects us. The other day I heard in an interview that this is the end of an era and that when they finish they do so, with a deep decline of the social fabric. Some of that is true. And then, that lack of sensitivity and empathy also has to do with the irruption of the Internet in our daily lives. We also have a knees educational system in front of new technologies when it has been shown that you do not learn more on a computer, you have to take out all electronic devices from the school environment and return to the pencil and paper.

Today he shared in his networks a news of The country in which he warned about the rise of Francoist nostalgia and ultra -right in the classroom. Have you noticed that phenomenon in your child’s generation?

Of course. He has just turned 15 and tell you with enormous pride that he has no internet on his mobile phone. It has been a major achievement because the pressure of society is very large. They have called me a cavernícola for not giving him a mobile, but I know that if he gives to that, he will lose much more. Not only in the face of issues such as ultra -right, on which he has not had time to reflect … there is the rampant misogyny that circulates through social networks or unlimited access to pornography that defines violent and impossible roles. If we do not let them drive or drink until some age, why do we grant them the Internet key when he is the main responsible for the lack of balance we are seeing in the new generations?

She is ambassador of the UN Spotlight Initiative to eradicate violence against women. How does hope maintain when machismo continues to gain strength?

There are days that are bleak, yes, but surrendering is not an option. Above all, because there is that false feeling that patriarchy only punishes women, the LGTBI collective and children, that white men are the only ones in an advantage. It is a lie. The patriarchy does not leave a puppet with a head: it reaches us all, even the white men.

To them too?

In the patriarchy there is a dictation about masculinity that is completely cruel and liar. There is no option for sweetness or tenderness, you are imposed to be the supplier and have a permanent sexual desire and without question … they are subject to terrifying things. How can they feel happy to defend something that also oppresses them? The patriarchy has not been reviewed enough for men to realize that it is a great lie that also catches them.

Have you already noticed initiatives such as Spotlight The arrival of Donald Trump to power and its cuts in cooperation and development?

Clear! The United States is the country that brings more money to the United Nations. In Argentina, for example, the program had had a wonderful response and performance, great success. I visited the country and got the European Union to continue its support for four more years, but we did not count on someone (Javier Milei) who has given a very hard blow to everything that is equality. But we are not going anywhere, the rights of women and girls will not suffer any setback. Civil society must be at the forefront of that defense.