The story of a mother willing to do everything for her son in a violent, macho world and full of impunity floods the atmosphere of the series starring Mexican actress Damayanti Quintanar, “The girl who cleans.”
“Violence against women and femicides are a reality that is happening in our country. I think it is very nice that ‘The girl who cleans’ reflects that reality in different social classes, of crimes, injustice, impunity and I think that in a certain way it becomes a protest, “Quintanar says in an interview this Wednesday with Efe.
In the blink of an eye Rosa becomes an implicit witness to a murder. Your job is to clean up the scene of the crime and with this you will be involuntarily intruded into an organized crime network from which it will not be easy for you to get out.
“She has many sides to build her (Rosa) on, on the one hand motherhood and this deep love of her life who is her son and on the other, this obsession with order and cleanliness that has to do with her fears and anxiety. to control everything a little bit ”, Damayanti deepens.
Rosa faces the reality of many Mexicans whose salary is not enough to support their needs. She has two jobs where she works “like crazy” and despite this she cannot afford the care that her sick child requires.
A FEMININE AND DIVERSE STORY
She is just one of the great diversity that the series puts on screen ranging from upper class women, young middle class aspiring to fame, and trans women.
All of them, in their own way, are victims of the macho and violent system that surrounds them, such as beauty stereotypes, harassment and abuse of power, discrimination, among other issues.
That helped Quintanar to understand Rosa from the gut, who says “she lives in a world in which her possibilities are greatly reduced, due to the difference between each social class, educational level and being a woman,” she says.
After being part of the series “Selena’s secret” (2018) where she gave life to the singer’s murderer, Yolanda Saldívar, Damayanti had begged for a leading man to let her exploit another facet as an actress and “The girl who Clean ”, which premieres June 20 on HBO, was the window she needed.
“I wanted to have that responsibility on my shoulders, I was crying out for it and I think the universe granted it to me,” he recalls.
The Colombian actress Juana Arias is another of the women who are part of this universe and she had to revisit her teenage emotions to give life to Ángela, a 19-year-old girl who will stand up for her brother.
“She is a key character for one of the stories that are addressed, she is going to be involved with what happened to her brother and will go to the last consequences to find out, even if she has to fight with her family,” Arias tells Efe .
“It’s funny because she is a super strawberry girl (good social position) who in turn has this warrior side and strong,” he adds.
Arias celebrates HBO’s opening to starkly address reality and hopes the speech will raise public awareness.
“Sadly we are going to identify a lot with these issues and I think that talking about them changes the perception, few production companies risk telling these kinds of stories, but I think HBO has this and makes more human series,” he says.
JUSTICE AND HONEST FIGHT
An essential male figure who, unlike the vast majority of men who inhabit the series, will seek the path of good is Detective Correa, played by Gustavo Sánchez Parra (“Amores perros”, 2000).
“He is a character who lost everything (Correa), he is someone who is governed by what is correct and although it is rare, in the world there are always people who want to do things well,” he tells Efe.
Although the path to justice is not always the most appropriate, his character will always defend this value and will be a shred of hope in the series, that not everything in life is bad.
“Sometimes to get to do things right you have to do things wrong. He knows that things have to be broken to reach the destination ”, he assures.
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