Natalia Oreiro, a life parallel to Eva Perón: "I cannot recognize myself beyond vehemence and humble origins"

Between

(Montevideo, 1977) and

there are several points of connection.

Both arrive in Buenos Aires in their teens with the idea of ​​becoming actresses.

They both have Spanish descent.

They both come from humble beginnings.

"And we are also bullfighting and our partners are 20 years older," says the actress who gives life to the eternal first lady of Argentina in

, the new Disney + series.

"But I have enough left to have similarities, I

I came to Buenos Aires very young to be an actress. But I don't even come close to everything she had to fight. I was born in the middle of the military dictatorship and when I wanted to be an actress, in the 90s, it was something natural".

She, although she also received some questions like the ones made to Eva Perón.

"I have been asked several times how a person of humble origin can succeed in this, that even seems disrespectful to me."

Now let's move this to the 1940s, when a 20-something woman without a recognized father, out of poverty and without political training married the President of the Nation, Juan Domingo Perón, and put an entire country in check with her oratory.

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She was discriminated against as a child for not being recognized by her father, as a teenager she is treated like a whore for wanting to be an actress and then they have her as a trophy from her husband.

Thus, she ends up generating resentment towards the upper class and a need to return all her rights to the people.

She got women into politics, it's not just getting women's suffrage, and that was what she was never forgiven for.

Because in the 40s that a 27-year-old woman without political training began to have a leading role and that the people loved her was not forgiven ".

But, with a life that only lasts 33 years, everything has ended up turning her into a myth for Argentines.

A transformation that is helped by her speeches, her tours of the world and the disappearance of her corpse for years.

Until finishing in the cemetery of La Recoleta.

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. In six years he did things that have not been done in the political history of Argentina. The working people loved him deeply, he gave them rights that no one had given them. And that's why the upper classes hated her so much."

You had the opportunity to be Eva Perón 10 years ago in another movie and you said no.

Why now? Because I have matured as an actress and as a woman.

Eva was not a mother, because her children were the people, but I became a mother and I consider that I have lived a path that has given me the tools to face it.

Eva's 30 years were not 30, although in the photos she looks like a young girl.

Her speeches, her way of acting and her power were clearly not hers.

Imagine a figure like her right now. I think there very much needs to be more Eva Perón today to join with wonderful women who are activists and environmentalists.

She was a forerunner of the environmental issue through the distribution of wealth.

We live in such a capitalist world that we are killing each other by consumerism.

Because we are killing our land.

That is why we would need it, to delve into the redistribution of wealth.

His figure was already controversial in the 40s, in a globalized world... I don't know if it would be more so.

It is true that she was not politically correct, but her figure transcends politics and she did things that there is no doubt that they were right.

Then, depending on her political position, certain things can be questioned, but, if one can leave selfishness and hatred aside, one must recognize the things that only she did.

Was that hatred a class issue?

Obviously there is a class prejudice and also for being a woman, but it is a source of hatred that she should not be occupying that place even though she occupied it in her own right.

When you hate someone so much it's also because you feel great admiration.

And there feminism comes together in a strongly patriarchal society. For the feminists of the time, Eva was not, but without a doubt that if she were born, today she would be.

At the time she was not considered, although I am clear that she was a promoter of feminism for what that time was.

She is difficult to analyze with today's eyes because we are at another point, but she is one of the great women for whom we have paved the way.

Although we still have a lot to keep fighting for.

With all that, how do you deal with getting into this oversized character? It is very difficult and it is a great responsibility because of the power that she has, for being who she was, for having left such an important legacy and for being in the memory of so many people.

She was a star who lit up for her people, a person who did not rest, with an overwhelming charisma, who did not eat, who was all day at a tremendous level of power.

The first tour that she does alone she was 27 years old, she comes to Spain, and you hear her speak in front of crowds and it's impressive.

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