Milene Vásquez: An Actress Who Cooks Up Dreams and Challenges Society

2023-09-10 16:27:33

Feeling like expressing who you are is a way to start building your dreams, respecting the ideals you cultivate. The actress Milene Vásquez not only represents characters, she also assumes a position before society, she does not ignore the big problems, but she also likes to be honest when talking. This is the ‘seasoning’ of a woman of art.

Milene Vásquez confesses in Trome. Photo: Joel Alonzo.

He wears his smile as the hallmark of his personality or perhaps it is the summary of that positivity that seems to mark his life. Milene Vásquez is today a prominent participant in a cooking competition (‘The Great Chef: Famous’) that airs on Latina. But in parallel, her acting career accompanies her, generating successes, entering the popular imagination. From ‘Qué Buena Raza’ to ‘Maricucha’ and passing through the nobility and evil of her characters, the girl born in Peru and with Argentine blood reveals an intimacy so personal and simple that it makes her special.

Milene, is life a big kitchen?

Yes, because it is creativity, it is using resources to get ahead.

Anything else?

But it’s also fun and games, or you can get burned and cut.

Did you arrive with good seasoning or did you learn along the way?

The great truth is that I don’t cook.

Oh really?

Because of my work schedule, I’m usually not home at lunch time. I did basic things for my children.

At the national level you exposed your limitations in the culinary art.

Of course, that showed my weaknesses, my vulnerability, but I discovered myself again as a brave woman.

Is it an act of courage to be an actress?

Yes, because each character has their share of nerves.

What if you get one that doesn’t match your moral values?

Studying acting I learned that I should not judge them, but rather have compassion for them.

In your last soap opera you ‘were’ an unfaithful girl. Did you do it by observing a friend with those characteristics?

I have several references, ha ha.

And what did you imitate?

How they behave, they move their hands, but when you record novels everything is very fast and you can’t do that type of research.

If you went back to ‘What a Good Breed’, would it have the same success?

It would be a great goal, although now I would be the protagonist’s grandmother, ha ha.

I think the plot has not lost its validity.

It was a timeless work, what we told in 2011 continues to happen in the country.

Unfortunately we are racists.

There are many flaws that we maintain and I believe that the way to leave them behind is to invest in education.

Three measures to change all this?

End the corruption that is the cancer of Peru, evolve in education because an educated person can better choose their rulers and at the same time stop discriminating.

Speaking of that topic, why do you like to read?

My mom always advised me: ‘When you read, you are never alone.’

And can it be replaced by cinema?

A good movie can equal a great read.

People are afraid to pick up a book.

I tell my children: Read what you like. Because otherwise it will seem boring to you.

Milene Vásquez confesses in Trome. Photo: Joel Alonzo.

And music?

I dance and listen to everything.

And today while you came to the interview?

To Gustavo Cerati, but in electronic version.

Is that your style?

Also salsa and I don’t rule out reggaeton.

What do you have on your playlist?

To ‘Bichota’ and even Bad Bunny.

Is it true that it is very sticky?

I have a theory.

Forward…

Ancestral and tribal music are the drums that are in our DNA. That’s why it makes you move your body, it’s the heartbeat.

You mentioned Cerati, he once sang ‘The City of Fury’ with Shakira and my sister told me: That’s her who melts for him.

And who doesn’t.

So?

I support her, ha ha.

You also break it with ‘Single, married, widowed, divorced’.

It has been in theaters for 21 weeks and is the highest-grossing film. There is talk that we will do the second part.

It was 2023 and it’s not over yet.

Grateful to life, also to God and people.

And you’re still in the race with ‘The Great Chef’.

Yes, it brings out the other part of me that I needed to explore.

Thank you for encouraging you to reveal part of your interior to us.

To you from Trome, follow me on Latina and a kiss to the readers.

For everything said in each answer, it is good to relate the actress to Rigoberta Menchú, the Guatemalan indigenous leader, defender of human rights, who stated: “A woman with imagination is a woman who not only knows how to plan the life of a family and that of a society, but also the future of a millennium.”