Chinese Suarez.

Buenos Aires, 1992. Actress and singer.

She is a force of nature that conquered America a decade ago and now she is coming for Spain.

She premieres in theaters

Objects

, a dark thriller with Álvaro Morte.

Maria Eugenie?

China?


China.

María Eugenia only call me when they get mad, so you know.

My roots are Japanese and the nickname has stuck.


You are an absolute celebrity in America, but in Spain you are landing now.

How do we introduce you to people?


This one is hard, because I'm 30 years old and I'm still wondering who I am (laughs).

I started working at the age of 10 in a very popular children's program in Argentina called

Rincón de Luz

, where we sang and danced.

The typical in which all the boys of the school want to be.

That's how it all started, like a dream.

From then on I didn't stop: TV shows, series, my first movie when I was 21, albums... I've always wanted to do this and I'm very stubborn, so here I am.


'Objects' is a film quite far from your profile so far.

Are you chasing a change?


Yes, it is something very different and quite dark.

I try to choose projects and characters that are challenging because that's my personality: I always like to go the hard way.

Also, it is a character with whom I felt an immediate connection and it is a

thriller

, which is the genre that I choose when I sit at home to watch a movie or go to the cinema.

So being able to be in a movie like this for the first time is spectacular for me.

I don't know if I was a coroner in another life or what's wrong with me, but crime fascinates me.

Too much, even.


I am worried?


No, no, never murder (laughs).

It never crossed my mind, always on the side of good.


What connection did you feel with a character caught in a human trafficking network?


Thank God, I have nothing in common with Sara, but the subject of motherhood touched me very closely.

I have three children and I can come to understand the terrible things that we would be capable of doing for love towards a daughter.

And it killed me to think that she is a character that in all her life she never had the opportunity to choose.

I had such a beautiful childhood, full of games, I had the opportunity to study, to have clothes to wear, to choose what I wanted to eat... And she, nothing.

Never.

That caught my attention.


Being so famous for so many years, do you find it strange to come to Spain and go unnoticed?


No, because being very famous always didn't matter to me, nothing strange ever crossed my mind, nor did I believe I was a star or anything like that.

I always felt and still feel like a girl who was able to fulfill her dreams. I take my job very responsibly, but at the same time it's like a game.

I enjoy it very much and I am very aware of how lucky I am to be able to live from what I like, from my vocation.

I like my children, nature and silence.

They never told me: "Che, China, you've changed, do you believe it?".


I don't know if I was a forensic scientist in another life, but I'm fascinated by crime.

You have 10 million followers on social networks, which is a big country like Portugal.

Doesn't it overwhelm you?


(Laughter) Many people see it that way, right?

I get along well because I don't think about it and because people, in general, behave.

I think it's because we grew up together.

Many times they approach me and say: "I saw you since I was little and now we are both mothers."

So I'm used to it and I've never felt that pressure of always having to be attentive and great.

Many times I disappear from social networks and nothing happens.

I am as I am, if one day I'm disheveled or whatever, it doesn't matter to me, I do what I want and how I want.


However, the pink press does not give you respite.

All your relationships are analyzed, there are a thousand scandalous headlines about them, a lot of rumours, footballers, operations...


It is pure machismo.

There's no more.

It is very notorious why what I do or do not do is judged in this way.

There are times when I have suffered a lot with this matter, I am not going to lie to you.

If I were a guy, no one would care who I slept with or didn't slept with or how many.

That is so since the world is world.

He already spent as a young man in groups of friends, when he went out to gambling dens and such.

The man who is with many women is a winner, but the woman has to be with only one or hide that she is with many.

If you don't hide it, you are no longer a woman to marry or decent, just a loser.

I've gone from that and I've done what I wanted and with whom I wanted, but I've suffered all that kind of prejudice from society and it's very hard.

You have to disarm all of that.

It is obsolete.


You recently denounced something very similar regarding the treatment that has been given to the breakup between Shakira and Piqué.


It's that it's tremendous.

Tremendous.

I shared something that another person had written and it seemed very wise, that she is portrayed as sad and him as a gallant.

I think it is important not only to report these things when they affect you, but also when they affect another woman.

We have to defend ourselves and accompany each other.

I think it's very important.

Luckily there are new generations that no longer come with that macho chip in their heads and many feminist women who fight for that to end.

We have a lot to change.

Everyone, huh.



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