Three Martín Fierro, two Carlos Awards, a Star of the Sea and a Konex. He was part of more than 25 plays, 18 TV programs and 36 fictions, among which are the classics La Niñera and Casados Con Hijos. Today, in Caja Negra: Florencia Peña.In dialogue with Julio Leiva, the actress recalled that hack she suffered and for which they ended up viralizing a sexual video: “With today’s head, with a feminism a little more interactive, maybe I would have felt a little more embraced. When it happened, I was to blame for it all. “me for recording me”… I always defended my individual freedom very much, as I defend the individual freedom of any individual. Finally that empowered me. I always had a lot of intuition to know how to read why and why things happened to me,” he confessed and told what was the first thing he thought when he learned of what had happened: “That I was never going to go out on the street again. But because it was a very big violation of my privacy at the time. Seeing myself in a sexual relationship doesn’t matter. It was with my ex-husband, but it didn’t matter who I had been with. It made me very bad and I felt very unfair too, but very unfair, because it seemed to me that it was not coming to the story of anything.”
“I was unanimous and people encouraged me. Of course, I didn’t see myself. I had never said anything about what I thought about absolutely nothing. I was the divine, loving comedian that everyone loved… But I said, “This can’t be more like this. I need to be able to match my need with the demand from the outside and stop fucking.” Trying to get closer to who I want to be without the need to want to be unanimous. And there I began to work and understand that not being loved by everyone was fine. Because if I say this one I’m in favor of the decriminalization of abortion, obviously there are going to be a lot of people who are not going to love me. And it is good that it is, it speaks well of me, that I have postures or looks on things and life. The sex video came to finish off a process that I had started, which was to join me with my sexual part. Sexual power, in a good way I say, is a very strong drive for life. And then there I reconciled and began to build myself in a much more real place. So today I could tell you that I have fought many battles against myself in recent times and I feel like a re power girl because I was able to go against my own prejudices and my mandates,” she said. Regarding polyamory, Flor Peña remarked: “I had to give an explanation for polyamory or the open couple, whatever you want to call it… what are the rules? The rules are personal to each couple. It’s hard to do in Argentina when you’re famous or famous because you don’t know who you might meet. There was like a thing of wanting to hurt on that side, but like everything. That’s why I tell you that I have a very focused gaze on the “why”. And I said, “Well, if I’m on this path of opening doors for myself and for those who have to open them, how can I not go out and bank this one?” If we go to the years of validity at the top of the performance, Julio asked him: “How does one not lose the axis? Over time, does the skin get harder or are you doing such an internal job that you understand that there are people who are going to love you, people who are going to hate you?” Peña replied: Both. I work a lot with myself because it is very difficult to sustain yourself for 40 years. Getting there is not difficult, especially now with the media that has expanded far and wide. But sustaining and sustaining yourself in premium jobs and sustaining yourself by working with the best directors, doing good jobs and still being on the front line is very difficult. Today you say “A” and that is replicated in hundreds of places and there are hundreds of people opining. If you are going to take into account each opinion – which speaks more of who is giving it than of the one who receives it – you go crazy. Then we have to learn to understand what criticism: what criticism I have to take, what criticism can serve me or what criticism comes from a place of construction and what are the hundreds of thousands that come from destruction.”
Soon it will be the return of Married with Children and, about his mythical character, he said: “I have a love-hate with Moni very crazy. Love has to do with feeling part of one of the comedies that made the most history in Argentina. Not being ours, starting from origin. Because it is a Yankee comedy, but having made it very argenta. I have that love because he is a character that I loved doing and that I had a lot of fun and that has given me a lot of happiness. I hate her because I have been competing with her for 17 years, because for 17 years I have been trying to keep Moni from appearing in my dolls, because I really like to compose, I like the wig very much, I like mucho find new ways. I like to take off. There is a constant internal struggle… with the audience and with myself, where people are waiting for the wink, they are waiting for Moni to appear at some point.” On the questions, he replied: “Those who criticize or who believe that Married with Children can not laugh at the same things that we laughed at before are those who do not understand that Married with Children is not a literal comedy, it is a satire, a criticism of us. We criticize machismo, we criticize couples who never garchan. We’re not proposing it’s okay not to garche nor is it okay for me to tell her it’s amazing. It’s not all that.” In addition, the actress commented on the position of Érica Rivas: “I think she had a break within her person of not knowing if she wanted or not wanted to be and wanted to take Casados to a place that was not Married. We all tried to explain to her that nothing that was going to happen was going to expose her to her, that we were all wanting to do something that was interesting to everyone who made it up. I could tell you from the inside that we’ve done a lot to get her there. In fact, she was the feminist character in the play. We are very sorry that she is not there, but I do not want to be left with the feeling that if it were not for her, Casados was going to be shit, because no, none of that is going to happen. It’s going to be very good. I consider myself a very feminist person in terms of my life and my view of women. I’m not going to let anything that happens in that house be something that affects any group. But it hurt me that we couldn’t reach an agreement.” Florencia Peña does not hide her political orientation and, after the attack on Vice President Cristina Fernández Kirchner, she said: “It gave me a lot of sadness. With Monday’s diary, without that bullet having come out, I see it as a metaphorical fact, as something that came to show us where we were at that time. We have to have a responsibility when we sit with a microphone somewhere. We can’t say anything in any way, because that’s not freedom of speech, someone who’s all the time throwing fake news or throwing shit at others… for me it is not freedom of expression. We owe ourselves that debate.”
If we go to the black box of his life, what is the moment that makes him the person he is today?: “It starts with the video and is finished off by polyamory. But not because that defines me, but because that helped me find myself.” Towards the end of the interview the black box opens. An unexpected challenge begins. Week after week a figure will submit to the living room to dialogue and reflect. And you, do you dare to remember what moment made a click in your life?
