Juana Acosta: "I am going through the best moment of my life. I would not return at 20 or 30"

It is a great pleasure to speak with Juana Acosta, who as soon as she arrives tells that it has just been her birthday

she says- and asks if she looks cute with the look she has chosen to pose in the photos as the image of the

She is the

with whom we would all like to sit down to chat, to tell her about our life and to listen to everything she has to say, who laughs as soon as she becomes serious to address the issues that touch her heart, it shows.

an intense season

In addition to the party and the celebration of Christmas, it is time to review the year that is ending, in which Juana Acosta has experienced "a journey,

All this for a play and dance, 'El perdón', which will close 2022 with 70 performances: "In it I use a personal experience that I had very strong when I was 16 -the murder of his father- as a starting point to reflect on how the circle of violence is broken".

Indeed, Juana was about to leave the house to go to dance class when the phone rang and they told her that her father had died.

"The trauma in the dance got embedded in me," she recalls, "and I didn't dance again for 30 years, until this play."

That is why for her it has been a

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forgive and toast

But apart from resuming your passion for dancing, has this work helped you to forgive?

"I forgave a while ago," she confesses, "but first I had to forgive myself because at the age of 16

I had a lot of rage inside and I got scared of my thoughts. I took a path, that of life".

Even talking about something so hard doesn't take the shine out of Juana's eyes.

And when asked why are you going to toast this Christmas?, she laughs heartily and shouts: "Oh, what happiness!".

And joy comes out of every pore because she is like that, she says, and "because I am Colombian, a country whose people have been so close to death that they place great value on life.

A very productive year

But going back to the toast, the actress finds many reasons: "Because it has been a year with a lot of growth on an artistic level, because on March 8 the production company that I have set up with my sister Valentina,

and also because my daughter Lola, 16 years old, is going through a particular moment that is adolescence, and here's to it passing quickly," he says between big laughs.

The actress at the party that Moët&Chandon held in Madrid.Gtres

Juana is looking forward to Christmas because she likes it and enjoys it, she says, and because "it's a time for families and meetings. There's something about it that makes me effervescent, like champagne, bubbly, that brings me

for what new arrival".

A wish list

And he makes an effort for things to come, because every year he makes a list of resolutions, which he fulfills

"I have to do it at an exact time that my mother tells me and that she takes from astrology, it's like a cosmic contract with which we ask the universe what we would like to happen. There is one thing that never fails, and that is to visit a country or a city I don't know, by 2023 I really want Japan or India".

Closer to home, this very Christmas, she plans to spend it in Mexico with her family and receive the New Year on the island of Holbox, in the Caribbean.

There he will toast with champagne -"better if it's Moët&Chandon", he says-, a drink that evokes "celebration, meetings, romanticism, every time I have the opportunity I open a bottle because

that makes me like".

his wrinkles

Juana Acosta is not scared that another year will pass, she is comfortable at 46: "Of course, the passage of time shows me, like everyone else, I have my wrinkles, my crow's feet, but I want to celebrate my birthday with dignity "I want to show how old I am and feel like

I wouldn't go back to 20 or 30."

And when I tell her that she is one of the best-dressed actresses on the red carpet, she thanks me and points out that she has a "quite healthy and relaxed relationship with fashion, which amuses her" because "I try to play with it, to take risks and to let myself be surprised. I live a little love story with her, and it will continue to be because with age

I feel more comfortable in my skin and more confident".

European-Latin American Union

"I like elegance and sophistication, but I also have a sexy point, I am Colombian and

I have found a very nice balance between Europe and Latin America," she defines.

A balance that she wants to bring to work through her production company: "I've been building bridges for so many years, introducing people from the cinema, that I want to continue connecting them to bring together all the power of Latin America with the criteria and depth of Europe."

Calité Films is the tool with which Juana Acosta goes, as she says,

We are going to stop complaining and do it," she says in reference to equality, because her objective is "to tell stories with women like protagonists and weaving networks of creators".

I remind her of Reese Witherspoon, the Hollywood actress who created a production company to tell women's stories, including the magnificent series 'Big Little Lies', and says that she has been the "reference, her inspiration" for her.

2023 arrives loaded with work.

In January he premieres the film

mid-year the HBO series

which he stars and produces;

is already underway ,

based on the book by a Mexican author, and with Mediapro another series created by her and her sister entitled

A toast to you, Juana.

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