Ximena Rivas y el teatro.
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00:00We're going to have a minute of clarity, I think we should be clear with this story because I didn't know this, but it's very powerful because you studied theater and you left the house when you communicated that you studied theater.
00:18Yes, more than leaving the house, my father kicked me out of the house.
00:21Oh, I'm going crazy.
00:22Because what I told you before, it was a family that went for the humanist, almost everything, my older sister was a doctor in history, the other was a doctor in mathematics, like bright minds, but nothing with art, I never went to trees in school, no flowers, nothing.
00:39You didn't do theater in school?
00:40Never, and I never went to see a play in school because it was from a fiscal school, which at that time there were no plans like today that boys go to theater.
00:47I mean, Jime, to understand, whenever you talk to an actor, an actress, they say, well, since I was a kid, I had the vocation, it turns out that I was in the theater group, I had never seen anything.
00:56Nothing, I wanted to study journalism, and he didn't give me the score to enter, so I said, well, I'm going to put theater in the fourth option, in Chile and in the Catholic.
01:04This was by discard.
01:05Well, as I said, I don't know, do you know why? Because my mother knew Oscar Hernández, it was by Mónica Carrasco, there was like a whole link there, and I remember that I went to see Carrascal 4000 at the Teatro del Ángel, and Oscar Hernández acted there.
01:19And I said, I'm going to apply for theater, but like that, having no idea what theater was, what branch was studied, nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing.
01:29It's journalism, so I said, I'm going to apply, and this year he prepared the test, I see it again and I study journalism.
01:35And well, then I said, I stayed, Oscar Hernández helped me do the special test, because I had to do a special test that one sang and prepared a scene, and my mother took me to the Teatro del Ángel, and Oscar helped me, which I thank him for, because thanks to him I am a little today in this world of theater.
01:51And he prepared me, and I gave the special test, and I stayed, from 200 and so, I don't know what.
01:56Did you realize that you had a talent that you didn't know?
01:58I mean, until that moment I didn't know, it was just a joke.
02:02But wait, and as a girl you didn't play in the bathroom alone to be a character?
02:05Nothing, nothing, I found all the people who did art, flying, as if they were out on the ground, disconnected, super critical, because it was a family that strengthened the other, knowledge, more than creativity.
02:20Well, what happened, you got home and ...
02:23I stayed in Teatropo, then I told my mom and my dad that I was going to study theater, without knowing yet, maybe I'm going to prepare the test this year, and my dad said, no, I'm not going to pay you a degree to be a prostitute.
02:36Oh, I'm dying.
02:38And other times, I'm talking about other times, other times, and above all, understanding my dad, because for a long time one also remains with resentment.
02:50You can't judge parents because they have to be in a context.
02:52Exactly, and he was self-taught, my dad was an electrician, self-taught, he studied, he made these water cups that you see to the south when you go, he was dedicated to Enrique Kirber, who had a company, and he was a pure capo, he did this job that corresponded to an engineer.
03:10Your dad was a person who did himself, with all the difficulties.
03:13He did himself, very sexist, very rigid too, and well, but he loved us, and from that place he felt that if I studied that, I was not going to have any future in life.
03:22And he told you in such a violent way.
03:24And he told me, and you're leaving the house, I'm not going to finance that, and I, as I was Paran Lilacha, I say, well, I'm leaving the house, and I left the house.
03:32Where did you go, Ximena?
03:34I went to a partner who sends him a huge greeting, where La Pancha Silva, granddaughter of Montes, Montes, do you remember those books by Montes and Orlandi?
03:43Montes, his grandfather was this Mr. Montes, and they received me at his house.
03:49I was in the first year of theater, and my mother, who did not work at that time, gave me money to work, I studied with all the tax credits in the world, and food scholarship, and I asked for everything.
04:00But what happened with your mother?
04:01I was 16, because at that time I left school at a very young age.
04:04At a very young age?
04:05Very young.
04:06And what happened with your father in all that period? I mean, you didn't see him?
04:09I didn't see him. My father never saw me act. Never, never, never, never.
04:14Because it was, well, then he came, well, I grew up, my mother of course went to my exams, but my father didn't.
04:19Your father kept finding out.
04:20Rejecting completely.
04:21And that he kept finding out because of your mother, surely he was telling him, but there is also a story of pride that no one was going to give in.
04:28Exactly, there, squeezed in that, and finally, well, then I returned, I had my first works, and immediately I started working very young.
04:38At school she called me the Willie Sembler for the banderao in the National Theater, but my father didn't.
04:44And well, then I got married, a girl too, I had my son, and I remember that when I had my son for a month, my father was a little sick, and I said, I'm going to see him.
04:55As if something happened to me, I said, well, anything can happen here.
04:58How many years had passed already?
05:00Many, my son was born in 1985, and I started studying, five years, I started studying in 1981 at school.
05:09And I took my son for a month, and I said, well, this is going to be a meeting from that place so that he, and my father gave him a hemiplegia attack.
05:17Well, it was from the generations very damaged by the military coup.
05:21And what hemiplegia, sorry?
05:22He was disabled on one side, he couldn't stand up.
05:25So I took him to Ramiro, there is little Ramiro, and I put him in my father's arms, he was a month old.
05:33And my father takes him and stands up.
05:36So it starts to be like this in the chair, and everyone next to him like this, because he didn't get up at that moment.
05:42He stands up with his first grandson, and he hands him over like this, he gets excited, he sits down, and at night my father died.
05:51What a story, tell me.
05:53So I felt that he was waiting to close a circle, both with me, because I was his gift, I was his eyes, I was the youngest.
06:03There was a very, very clean love, very toy with my father.
06:07So I feel that he was waiting for that, first to meet his first grandson, and then to close a story with me.
06:13So it was very powerful.
06:15In fact, this story of Carlos Flores wanted to come out in a movie, because many magical things happened.
06:21I had a photo of my father when he set my house on fire, a part of the house, and all the children's photos were burned.
06:27I don't have photos of girls.
06:29And I had a little photo of my father, that he came out with me on Cerro San Cristobal, as they went up, but so white and black.
06:37And two days later I look at this photo and it was erased.
06:41How?
06:42There was no photo of my father.
06:44And it disappeared.
06:46The only memory I had of my father does not exist, it is erased.
06:50Things happened between magical, between strong, exciting.
06:54And well, he died and never saw me act.
06:57I never knew I was fine, I never knew I was a good actress.
07:00I have a message from your son.