By Ketty Cabrera
The Mexican singer and actress Daniela Romo confesses to Diario Uno and tells about her character in the Peruvian film “Queens without a crown.”
After beating breast cancer, the well-known Mexican singer and actress Daniela Romo has decided to honor and enjoy life to the fullest by being an active representative of causes that motivate and encourage its audience. She is not only a spokesperson for the fight against cancer in her country, but also for another disease that eats away at society in many countries: violence against women.
In an interview with Diario Unothe interpreter of classics such as “I do not ask the moon” y “Fall in love with me” She says that this was one of the main reasons that encouraged her to be part of the film by the Peruvian director and screenwriter Gino Tassara, “Queens Without a Crown”a film by Sinargollas that is on the national billboard and that seeks to sensitize the population against the mistreatment of women.
“The first contact with Gino was because he wrote to my networks and suddenly I said to myself ‘who will it be?’ When he sent me the script, I read it and I said to myself ‘this is very good’ and suddenly I called him on the phone, we were talking for a long time and you can see that Gino is a snake charmer (laughs), he became the charmer and the snake is my character Deifilia… She conquered me, she convinced me and when they all came to Mexico to do my part, I felt loved and I was able to do a job that was quite difficult”tells Romo about the Peruvian film whose protagonists are the experienced actors Alexandra Graña, Francisca Aronsson and Claudio Calmet.
-Tell me about your character in “Deifilia”, a woman without scruples or pity for what her daughter and granddaughter go through…
She is a horrible character, she is a horrible woman but there are many like that. Who educate men? We do not? We educate the men and sometimes we take advantage of our daughters. When I decide to create the character of Deifilia, somehow, I imagine that she was a battered woman too. So, just as they hurt her to give herself courage, she becomes this girl who wants to be like ‘I don’t care about anything, just the money’.
– How did your connection between Peru and Mexico come about?
Peru is a super special place in my life. I traveled many times in the 80s and 90s and well, it’s a place so similar to Mexico in many ways, but of course it’s not the same to eat a ceviche in my country than a ceviche over there. I always liked Peru, the people always gave me a lot of love and gave me many beautiful things.
-You say that Peru and Mexico are similar. Do you feel that they have the same history of machismo where women are the victims?
Everything that happens to women in Peru, Mexico, Latin America and even in the United States is a way that we have to banish and re-educate because sometimes it seems like a vicious circle. It seemed very important to me to make this film because it speaks from the emotional part and not from the news. We are getting used to hearing about pain, about losses, about searches, it is very strong. But looking at it from a movie angle, I think the message is very powerful.
-What do you feel is the message after seeing this film for both Peruvians and Mexicans?
I think they will find the message, each one theirs, each one will see themselves in a mirror and look at something they know and have experienced. I think the main one is not to shut up, to stop being afraid, women live in great fear. We hope that the film reaches many women and that they take into account that they have to raise their voices, they have to be heard and -above all- I think it is important for the macho world in which we live, that they respect us. I think that women have so much power, because we have the miracle of life, whoever doesn’t respect that is because he isn’t respecting anything. It is no longer that they respect you as a woman, it is respecting life.