Farid Dieck entrevista a Eduardo Verástegui

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here in our city of beautiful in Monterrey la visitadora adosada because he comes to promote his new film unexpectedly and I want to ask you some questions about what if you allow me on this topic I had the opportunity to see the film the funeral was congratulated, thank you, it moved me a lot, I think he managed to expose the complexity of this topic and how delicate this topic is, and behind every action and every project there is always a reason for being and in fact I listened to you a while ago but I would like you to share it also now with the people that why this cause that is hidden behind this dies to you so that you have decided to invest your time and effort to make this film well first of all thank you farit for this space that you give me and I take advantage of the opportunity to send a big hug to all the people who follow you with a lot of affection, with a lot of affection and a big hug, there are many things that in some way motivate me to do what I am doing, many reasons but There is always one that detonates all of them, it is not like the goal is to believe that exactly what triggers everything else to come together and explode everything and this experience changed my life.

An experience that I had in Los Angeles, California, I was preparing for a character. for a film that I have to produce and act at the same time both the two caps the producer the actor an independent film it was the first time I made an independent film as an actor and as a producer and we were about to start filming two weeks We started filming in two weeks and we didn't have the main actress so I wasn't very nervous as an actor and as a producer and the director couldn't find the main actress and he told me Eduardo, are you rehearsing are you training well teacher yes but no because I need to well well It's something because he was very nervous, not because what you do in the first scene in the first take stays that way, that is, there is no electric text because it's not enough for us, so what you do is what he does on the screen and that made me more nervous like that.

It's just that soon someone tells me well, well, let's see if the theme is a girl who gets pregnant and sees abortion as the only way out and your character, out of compassion, convinces her from love not to have an abortion and adopts her baby, well, you What you have to do is go to an abortion clinic and interview two three four or five young people who are going through something similar, the same situation as none of the girl's character in the movie, that's not her name, and I said well, it seems like a excellent idea, I don't know why I hadn't thought about it before, I was rather doing my homework from Google and looking for information but it never occurred to me to go to an abortion clinic, it's just that I rushed out the next day and when I arrived at these abortion centers, well Yes, I was shocked first because I saw very young girls of 12 years old, 13 years old, 14 years old in line entering to abort their babies, that is, and I discovered that in the United States a young girl underage can have an abortion secretly without her parents knowing.

It counts the same and in Mexico, in Mexico City, at that time, abortion in Mexico was unthinkable, not because it is not just about fighting to make abortion illegal. For me, that is not enough. Abortion would have to be unthinkable, just as we do not need a law so that children do not kill their parents, don't imagine for a while a law for unwanted parents, no, you don't need it because because it is unthinkable, well, then we would also have to see abortion as something unthinkable, so what happens when they came to this clinic and when these young girls I was going to abort but suddenly a group of young volunteer girls approached me and I introduced myself to them.

I told them that I was an actor and that I was doing research for a film. They told me today that Eduardo de Chavita is Mexican and he seemed to recognize you as a problem. It's a pity no. We speak Spanish, she doesn't speak English. I think I want an autograph. Before, I approached her and she actually said hello, I'm Lorena, I'm from Puebla. We can take a photo. Yes, of course, I'd be happy to have an autograph, but give me five minutes of your time and we'll start talking I'll tell him who I am, what I was doing, he told me, hey, but you're the one from that soap opera, right, yes, and he told me something very funny, what he's saying is just a moment, well, notice that you look much younger on television, he tells me, well, what?

What happens is that you say that work that you are seeing, I did it 15 years ago, obviously, time passes and things change, but the point is that the fact that he recognized me allowed me to turn those five minutes into 10, 15, 20 minutes once. time and because of me he lost the appointment he was late and not anymore so choose Lorena don't be sad everything happens for a reason you have to see the signs everything that had to happen for you to meet here at the entrance of this clinic where You have already decided to abort your 4-month-old baby.

She had already told me the reasons why she wanted to abort, etc. Not the issue. The issue is that the next day he called her again. Choose, You are not alone. I am going to help you. We are a family and the Next I called him and we finally found the main actress and I moved to New York and I left a person in charge to follow up with the pregnancy and Lorena's needs later on we lost track we lost track she changed her phone number we didn't hear from her We heard somewhere that he had had a couple of bleeds and maybe the issue had gotten complicated and we just didn't know.

I left months later and returned to Los Angeles. He finished the film. It helped me a lot for my character. You don't know how not only did Enrique Enriquez me as a person. But it also gave my character a lot of life to have met Lorena because I was able to change judgment for compassion and heal everything from love, but the best was barely coming when suddenly she received a call and it was Javier, Lorena's husband, where he yelled at me.

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eduardo and at first I thought that something bad had happened because I only heard screams I change you are very calm what's going on I said the name something bad had happened to me and Abraham analyzed the fault no and suddenly he said no no eduardo and his face broke voice and the phone starts to help and tells me my baby was born yesterday and we want to name him Eduardo, how you are, you are so healthy, he is beautiful, you have to come and meet him because I also started to cry, my vision was a lump in my throat, I lowered the phone and there were tears.

First of all, I was shocked that I never imagined in a thousand years that while I was going to this clinic I would be a homework assignment, not a histrionic investigation for my character, that I would become the instrument that would save Eduardo's life, not the next. I go to the hospital and they put the baby in my arms and well that broke me it melts me that this is a miracle I am carrying the life that will not see the light of the sun it was already decided and they are going to end this life a The baby that was, let's go, has already been fertilized with its DNA, everything was perfect but the mother didn't see it at that moment because sometimes you see and you don't see, no, but now in my arms and wow, they saw it because they were crying and they told me a very nice thing.

Eduardo, thank you for saving our son's life and that's where I got upset because I had never heard that. I told him and I replied, thank you for saving mine because a few months ago I couldn't save my own life so that's when I gave meaning to my life there fell a unique important specific call to first discover the opportunity and the possibility that through the medium in which I work can become a very powerful medium that can save lives I was already living it and from there I became addicted to that feeling and that is something very interesting that you mention and that I would like to hear your opinion regarding people like public figures, artists and others in this certain responsibility of what they say, the image that they give to their followers and the things that they They should care about what responsibility you think we have for this type of real issues that right now there is content from all types of artists who do many things that are a responsibility you feel, well look, everyone has to answer that to themselves because before going to sleep I always I like simple but very important questions.

Am I building or am I destroying? I am cleaning or am I getting dirty with what I do? No, whether you are an artist, an artist or whatever, in what you do, I am not telling the truth or a lie, I am ordering or disordering, I am turning off. the light or I am turning on the light what I am doing with my life and everyone has to answer no so I try every day to assume my responsibility I try every day as far as I can humanly as much as humanly possible to generate positive content that inspires the audience to love more to complain less to forgive more to inspire the audience to want to become the best version of themselves art has tremendous power for better or worse it can elevate the intellect of the audience towards what is good beautiful and true can touch hearts touch fibers provoke emotions and those emotions end in reflections and those reflections end in conclusions and my desire my hope as a filmmaker as well as as an actor is to produce films or participate in projects that have the potential not only to entertain the audience but also to be a difference in our society in our society elevating dignity the human being touching hearts inspiring people to want to reach their maximum potential and then and in that way make this world a better place and then of course this is an invitation to all The people who are dedicated to this assume our responsibilities to work on projects that make this world a better place and the truth is that the benefit is enormous when someone says to you on the street or what this lady told me, no, thank you for saving my life. or someone who tells you, hey, your project changed my life, hey, your project helped me forgive my father, who had not forgiven him in 20 years, hey, your project, that is, art, in addition to entertaining, you can touch, but sensitive, very, very deep, they came to a image a phrase that's why I have always said when it's my turn to promote the film of unexpected yes this phrase fascinates me because it contains many things not if every mother had a glass belly no one would approach it because she would see the miracle that her blood carries inside mexico - It is gestated in the wombs of their mothers who saw Mexico, not that Mexico dies, they are very powerful phrases that help us understand who we are fighting for and for what and why and where and when not then that is why I do what I do first because in my house in my family the family is the school of love that is where they teach you to respect life to love to forgive the values ​​sometimes you leave you get lost but the values ​​awaken again I lost myself for many years I gain The world won over me through excessive ambition, pride won over me, vanity won over me, other things won over me that sooner or later began to hurt me a lot.

I didn't realize I didn't realize it until suddenly an awakening came at the age of 28. and that was where I said let's see number 1 I discovered that the reasons why I wanted to participate and work in this medium had been superficial and banal frivolous reasons first now me and then me and then I later I realized that I was not assuming the responsibilities that I had to assume, I forgot that any project, as soon as you get involved, whether you like it or not, is going to affect the way of thinking of people, especially young people who live according to the standards that come from children and are communicated.

Young people have the tendency and have the inclination to imitate what they see in the cinema and on television, we spend more than 10 hours in front of the media, of course they are going to influence us, of course they are going to affect us, they are going to affect us. to influence our way of thinking for better or worse, art in itself is neither good nor bad, it is an instrument, it is a very powerful medium that has been used for a lot of good, poorly used, for a lot of bad, let's assume responsibilities and make art that inspires and that transforms lives forever for the better, great.

How does one question arise now that we are talking about the film and your experience, plus something that caught my attention personally is that this debate always focuses, or well, that's how it seems to me in hindsight. to say until the moment when the woman has already reached the situation of desperation or whatever to consider the decision to abort, no, but I suppose that this is all after the fact, well, she arrives carrying a whole series of situations or problems that finally add up. To get to this point I think that both positions finally agree that no one would wish for the act of abortion but it really is like this last opportunity but my question without pressure is why wait for us or because the debate always has to focus a posteriori when You are already in the event but what is happening before what is happening during this entire process that is taking us here so I wanted to ask you what is happening in this process for the person here and what we can do on the one hand and of the other because at the end of the story I am sure that both positions care about the process, they care about the woman, what she lives, what the man also lives and so on, then there are important topics that can be touched on where we can also put the focus to avoid reaching That circumstance, well, there's everything good there.

Don't think that everyone has the same interest. What I'm going to tell you is sad, but it's the reality. There are people who see abortion as a big business. So not everyone, but there are groups that kill two birds. a stone, they see abortion as an issue of population control and in the process a big business because it isa big business, imagine just in Mexico since abortion was legalized ten years ago more than 250,000 nines have been aborted and that is only legal for the first 12 weeks that is why they want of course 13 weeks 14 15 and 6 because there are more abortions more money more population control, no, that's not what they're going to tell you, that's how it comes disguised as human rights propaganda, a woman's right to decide, and we get confused because the women who are in favor of abortion say nothing, it's my body and I can do whatever. that I want and that is not true, it is illegal, for example, to sell a kidney and it is your body, it is yours, it is your organ, you can donate it, but you cannot sell it, it would be organ trafficking, therefore it is illegal, it is punishable, it is a serious crime, so we cannot deceive people with phrases such as the right to decide for me to do what I want with my body because it cannot be what you want, for example that makes you doubt and that if it is your kidney that is part of your body a human being, a baby is inside your body but it is not part of your body, so you also have to see it in the rhetoric, how suddenly they sell you an idea, an idea like this, abortion is a human right and they repeat it a thousand times.

Until people start to believe it is neither right nor human to say that because it is not human to kill an innocent defenseless baby that cannot be defended is not human therefore it is not a human right there is no right to death human right is the right to life in fact it is in fact the most important right the most important of all rights because if you are not born you cannot enjoy any other right therefore if there is no life there are no rights then First you have to see how in propaganda, what is the first thing that this propaganda does is to dehumanize what a mother carries inside her womb when she is pregnant, how they dehumanize you, call the product, which is a product, an object, if you you have product a thousand times product for your son's place it is easier to get rid of an object than your son therefore product product product and if you see how they build all the rhetoric the narrative you realize that here there is a there is a Basically there is an objective and a goal there is a business there is a population control because if not why then 12 weeks and then they increase as has happened in other countries as has happened in the United States in 1900 in 1973 abortion is performed in the first weeks and years Then a few months ago in New York 'the 9 months of pregnancy in 46 years they achieved it so they already have everything well mapped because now as they have just taken away some of the government funds from planting, they are collapsing, which makes them expand where, well, the country neighbor why because you kill two birds and one stone there are many people in Mexico population control and two businesses and that is why they are pushing pushing the culture of death how are we going he wants to force it in disguised as propaganda for human rights and the rights of the woman, I am in favor of women's rights, of course, how could I not be if he called women, I grew up surrounded by women, I come from a woman, but I am also in favor of the rights of life, so for me it is the same right of life. women and rights of life rights the right to be born go the same way you cannot put one right on top of another right and then and to finish just on the topic that you asked me what to do to avoid arriving there are so many things so many things that have to be worked on At the same time, in what we work on, we defend life, but we must bring back to the family the basic values ​​that have been lost in our society.

I repeat, in the family, the school of love is where you are taught to love, to forgive, to respect life. We have to rescue the basis of every healthy society, which is the family, and teach them the words very well. For example, the dad drags, the mom, the example, the parents, very important with the children so that the one who didn't have a family, the one who does have one, well. that you take out your arm and open the one you don't have that you take out your blanket and your coat so that no one feels alone that is why the unexpected movement of the film is very important and that is why in the end we put a phone number on WhatsApp where 500 more organizations of 500 organizations are connected ready to help so that no woman who has an unexpected pregnancy feels alone this is a job a job of accompaniment to embrace that no one is in a difficult situation well then jump and help what you can do but it is something so that no one feels alone and treats every woman the way you would like your mother, your sister or your daughter to be treated in a similar situation.

Something that also caught my attention in the movie I saw was that it was mentioned in a certain way. part that many of the abortions that were carried out in that clinic they wanted to keep secret, you could infer that you are talking about this, that those women perhaps did not want people to find out or what their parents would say if they knew that you were pregnant and so on and so on. That made me think a lot about how much stateization can affect this problem, perhaps there is a lack of connection or compassion for women on this issue, not because, well, if a woman is seen being hugged outside of house and so on because it suffers from after adjectives and so on and from image something that well for many the truth is very important and there the exact and then she I suppose that they see how and I don't think that anyone finds out other than what it is about What I can say is that there are also many factors that we could as a society, as you said, cause the family to be creating tension because perhaps attacking certain problems would mean, as a consequence, attacking the problem at the same time.

Abortion will be more or less What I was referring to and it all starts with the issue of learning to respect life with everyone because yes, if you come first, the issue of selfishness is very important because if it is me first, then obviously, but there is my reputation, then I have to kill someone to have a reputation lake that's where we are already upside down at the moment that teaches us to respect everyone's life I repeat the life of street children everyone's life nobody is extra nobody nobody a no one should be discarded no in that moment then we put the lotus first that makes a marriage put the other first in theory that should be no it doesn't happen that's why so many divorces that's why the family is collapsing because because there is no training on how to love we don't know how to love the objects were created to be used the human being created to be respected and loved today we are backwards today we use the human being and we respect and love the objects we go backwards so we have to back to devices return again to the values ​​to put at the Married neighbor and husband put their wife first, her husband puts his husband first and in that way the two of them, it is a precious exchange of infinite love where one is giving to the other with everything, not a grain of sand, but with everything, loving until it hurts.

And that's because of the paws, when the daddy is doing that, the lady, the children see that and learn to respect, to give everything for the other, and if you believe in a family like that, you always put the other person first than yourself, a mom, imagine, well, here we all come. it is the sacred womb it is nine months of sacrifice of unconditional love of my house it is your house of welcome and suddenly it becomes a concentration camp it should not be like that it should be the safest place in the world not the most unsafe place in the world world that is not happening because propaganda and hitler at some point in history yesterday a few years ago did not convince a people to kill another people and they saw it well calloia of born that it is not easier today to convince a people to kill another someone you don't see yet because it's going to be easier so it's happening in the United States more than 60 million babies have been aborted since it was legalized which is important to this figure because because many people say that when it is legalized they will to reduce abortions they increase is a business we have it, if not 60 million where did that figure come from it is a tremendous deal no I believe that this is a first issue of accompaniment to people in situations of unexpected and difficult embargoes number 2 in the case of rape if a minor becomes pregnant that is no longer an issue it has already been legalized I do not agree with abortion under any circumstances however if a woman becomes pregnant due to the tragedy of rape of a minor in Mexico and wants to have her Baby, what kind of help does abortion receive from the government?

Yes, but I want to bring my baby Rayán as much as you can, so you have to tie the problem. At least you don't have to tie for problems. Let's see if it's giving us the option of that you have an abortion and you are within your rights. I do not agree because no, not everything that is legal is correct but well that is not right now but if it is wrong that you have not tied it you have not put the other the other hand but if you want to have it on the right option the package of five here's the package if no it means that you won't be lacking this is a shelter we are going to give you a shelter in case they charge you at your house don't worry no there is no fear here we are going to take care of you two food is covered three until the baby is born and you reach the age of majority you are not going to lack sometimes this is the package now if you let her decide but if you don't let her if you don't give her options then how is she going to say if there is no more one option then we have to tie that one and that's how we have to go the man tells me this is a women's issue the arrano of men well no because pregnant women or gift and fish tennis player to the man then a man's issue too but also of the man coward a message to the cowardly man who does not want to assume his responsibility hey master if you are already pregnant don't run there is a baby there it is your son it is your blood of your blood fifty-fifty well then show your face assume responsibility like a man like a Gentleman, whether she is your friend, it is not that it is an infidelity, well, double responsibility, master, well, now so that she really finds out who you were with, that you were not the right man because you were unfaithful to her and now you have the possibility of at least redeeming yourself by assuming her responsibility but if not, imagine two cowardly acts of infidelity and since I don't want to be silenced in the dark, we are going to kill the baby who was not to blame for anything.

You condemn him to death. It seems ironic to me because on the one hand, the legislators in Mexico do not They legislate in favor of the death penalty for a criminal but if they want to legislate the death penalty for an innocent baby who did not commit any crime, abortion is a death penalty today a height question to leave eduardo now that you touched on the subject man leaves to be very interesting because, as you say, in a certain way, man indirectly or indirectly contributes as much to the consideration of the last option, either through rape or through the fact of misunderstanding, once, as you say, that in addition there is flight, not then.

To finish, what message could you leave a young man who perhaps has not gone through those circumstances, but on this issue of taking responsibility for his actions, what message would you leave a young man about his life in general first first? There is nothing that will ever leave a woman alone who treats every woman the way he would like his mother, his sister or his future daughter to be treated tomorrow. I am sure that when he meets her he will melt for his daughter. No, I have never abandoned anyone who puts into practice the golden rule, treat others as you would like to be treated, do not leave a woman alone, much less a woman who is already carrying your child.

In his instinct, a man is the protector. the guardian, let's be protectors and let's be guardians and give our lives for the woman and for her children, and even more so if it's your son, how not to give your life for your wife and your son, no, if it was an unexpected topic, a topic where you didn't plan it, it was infidelity or you committed a very responsible act, well now face the consequences like no man and it can be an opportunity to grow in maturity to wake up and sometimes life gives us these tests where you are committing irresponsible acts all the time and suddenly there is a tremendous consequence there is the opportunity to grow they are areas of opportunity they are challenges they are not problems they are challenges but the other way around and if you are not prepared for anything well there are many organizations where it can lead to struggle it will give an adoption but take the issue with it no abandon her, do not leave her alone, much less manipulate her or force her to abort as an easy way out of your irresponsibility, then put yourself in the shoes of the baby that is inside the mother's womb, your son, put yourself in his shoes, how you would like.

What would they treat you if you were there, kept vulnerable, imagine how sad that your parents are the ones who should be the lions, the lioness, the ones who protect you, those who give their lives for you, let them be your own executioners, why do you want enemies and with your parents? I hope tomorrow that what I'm going to tell you doesn't seem like a joke or a horror movie, but don't let the idea of ​​a law called unwanted parents get out there because there are many, there are many children who don't have those. parents and that does not justify the passing of a law that allows a child to kill his father or his mother, that is how absurd abortion is the other way around as soon as it turns around, absurd, well, thank you very much, Eduardo, beloved for your time, for your words and well, we hope that this conversation can serve to contribute to someone's life, they will see unexpected viva mexico