Coco Máxima, actriz trans de El amor no tiene receta, nos cuenta su historia
La actriz trans ha roto esquemas como coprotagonista de la telenovela El amor no tiene receta (Univision). "Sin toda la gente que ha luchado, que ha dado su vida o la ha perdido por la lucha de nuestros derechos no hubiera yo llegado hasta este punto".
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00:00A lot of people have told me, don't say you're trans anymore, don't make trans characters anymore.
00:04And I tell them, hey, wait, wait, there has to be pioneers, there has to be pioneers.
00:10I mean, this is a war that hasn't ended, it's just getting started, we're just getting weapons.
00:16I was very afraid of being who I was because I knew my family, my friends, my partners, were going to reject me.
00:24I said, they're going to reject me because it's a very rejected community.
00:28I mean, obviously there is a tremendous fear, coconut of the past.
00:34I just want to tell you not to lose hope,
00:40that there will be times when there is not even a ray of light,
00:47but the most powerful light is the one we have in our hearts.
00:51Without my community, this would not be happening.
00:58Without all the people who have fought, who have given their lives or have lost it for the fight for our rights,
01:06I would not have reached this point and neither would Juan have reached this idea.
01:11Starting with Wendy, Wendy Guevara, who thanks to her, her social work, her internal work,
01:18her struggle for her dreams, this place is now with me.
01:24A lot of people have told me, don't say you're trans, don't make trans characters anymore.
01:28And I tell them, hey, wait, wait, there has to be pioneers, we have to have pioneers.
01:35I mean, this is a war that hasn't ended, it's just getting started, we're just getting weapons.
01:41Although before we didn't have feet or a head and we have 50 years marching for our rights.
01:49And they keep killing us.
01:51Right now, Mexico is still the second country with the most trans feminicides worldwide.
01:57So I think we are at a time when we can stop that and make community among Mexicans and say,
02:05let's see, we are all a fan of colors, this is Mexico, this is Mexico.
02:10Why do we have to close it and leave it like that, nothing more, without color, and be like the whole world?
02:18That's what distinguishes Mexico and Latin America, all that flavor, that spiciness,
02:23that variety and diversity as people.
02:27Well, Coco Máxima as such started out as a drag queen here in Mexico City.
02:32That's how I, as a trans person, decided to enter the world of femininity.
02:41So I was very afraid of being who I was because I knew my family was going to reject me,
02:47my friends, my partners.
02:49I said, they're going to reject me because it's a very rejected community.
02:53Obviously, there is a tremendous fear.
02:56So I started as a drag queen and I said, I'm going to start dressing up,
03:00becoming a character and Coco Máxima came up.
03:04Fortunately, I had spectacular opportunities to work with great artists like the Maska Brothers,
03:11Karime Pinter, Christopher Uckerman, certain people who empowered me a lot as a drag queen
03:18and who helped me to know who I really was and to dare to say, this is me and period.
03:28I'm not going to worry about what they'll say, if my family, if my dad, I'm sorry.
03:34Obviously, everything that I was afraid was going to happen happened, but I already knew it.
03:40So it came up and apart from that, I prepared myself.
03:43I'm a person who, during that process, I prepared myself, I studied musical theater,
03:49I'm a master's degree awarded by the Royal School of London.
03:53I'm a professional master's degree in musical theater and I also studied here in a technology school
04:00called G. Martel and another theater called Arte Studio,
04:04the best musical theater schools here in Mexico.
04:07And that shaped me a lot to be able to achieve what I'm doing now.
04:11It also helped me a lot to be a reporter.
04:14I'm a reporter for a platform called Escándala.
04:17It is the most important platform in Latin America for LGBT media.
04:24And that helped me a lot to be an activist, to be able to give with my art something more than fame,
04:32or recognition, but to show stories that actually nourish our Mexican society,
04:38our families, our children.
04:43Well, coconut of the past, I just want to tell you that you don't lose hope.
04:53There will be times when there is not even a ray of light,
05:00but the most powerful light is the one we have in our hearts.
05:04So don't lose your essence, don't let yourself be guided by the criticisms of whoever comes.
05:14You are you, and always love to the maximum, so that you continue to be maximum.